Francisco Airton Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Piauí (campus Picos). He graduated in Systems Analysis and Development at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (2008), with a specialization in Software Engineering at CEUT-PI (2010), with a Master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco. He studied at the Sapienza Università di Roma (2015). He was a Collaborative Researcher in Multinational Technology companies, such as EMC and OKI. His research interests encompass distributed systems with an emphasis on cloud computing, mobile computing, and systems performance evaluation techniques.