Eduardo Guerra is a researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. He previously spent seven years at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and served as a lecturer at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). His research can be broadly described as an effort to “find better ways to develop software.” This includes studying software patterns, programming approaches, and development processes that support effective and sustainable teamwork. Agile principles form the core foundation of his work, with recent research focusing on how uncertainty management can be applied to software architecture design. In the area of programming techniques, he has conducted several studies on the use of metadata and code annotations as means to improve adaptability and enhance code quality. Recently, he also directed his research efforts to agentic architectures, with a particular attention to their security aspects. Beyond academia, Eduardo is also a board game designer, a seasoned Java dinosaur, a judoka, and the host of the Hillside Patterncast.