Paulo Merson has been programming in the small and programming in the large for over 25 years. Paulo is a software architect at the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts. He is a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and is also a certified instructor for SOASchool and a faculty member of the master program in Applied Computing at University of Brasilia. Paulo often delivers professional training to software developers in the US, Latin America, and Europe. His speaking experience also includes tutorials at JavaOne, SPLASH/OOPSLA, SD Best Practices, SATURN Conference, Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World, The SOA and Cloud Symposium, lectures to graduate students in different universities, and invited talks at different companies. He is co-author of Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2nd edition. Paulo holds a BSc in Computer Science from University of Brasilia, and a Master of Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.