My history with computers began a long time ago when I was a child at 9 years old. I remember watching movies with people using computers and started playing with boxes imagining that I'm using computers. I asked my parents to learn how to use it. My parents tried to enroll me in a computer school, but they didn't accept me because I was too young.
Some years later, another school accepted me as a student for a basic course: MS-DOS, Windows 95, and Microsoft Office. I was the youngest student in the class. My interest in computers only grew. When I finished the basic course I was enrolled in a advanced course: Introduction to programming with Visual Basic and Borland Delphi.
I remember these days when I was eager for the Elementary School classes to end just to be home and start programming simple games like tic-tac-toe in the evenings.
One day when I was in High School I saw a magazine about Linux. I bought it! It came with a minimal version of the Slackware Linux (ZipSlack). It took me a lot of days to install it and configure X with Window Maker. That episode was a turning point in my life. That was the first challenge that I remember that I did on my own without help from anyone else, I didn't known anybody who has been using Linux. Learning Linux exploring man pages and reading internet articles in English (at that time understanding English was challenging for me) opened my mind to have confidence that I can learn anything that I want!
In 2002 I enrolled in a Computer Technician course, where I have contact with Clipper programming language, C, and more deep on Visual Basic and Delphi. During that time I build and sell my first software, a management program for a school, with features to keep track of students' grades, and teachers schedules and print some reports. At that time I didn't have any doubt I want to learn more and declined job offers to enroll in a Bachelor of Computer Science course.
2005 was the year I ingressed at ICMC-USP BCS course, which is among the best ranked in Brazil. During the undergraduate course, I always seek to participate in extracurricular activities. I was a volunteer in a project that teaches how to use computers to people that can't afford to pay for a course. I joined "Sanca Livre" the OpenSource group from São Carlos, where I helped to organize events like the FLISOL 2006 (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre). I helped the organization of two editions of "e;SemComp", ICMC's computing week event full of talks and workshops.
In my professional career, I had always been working on projects for big multinational companies. Always using Agile Methodologies. In 2014 I passed the exam for the Scrum Master certification.
I worked on a wide range of projects and technologies: Web development, command-line tools, desktop applications, embedded systems, computer vision, machine learning, 3D printing, IoT, drones, and distributed systems. This diversity of experiences among contact with many different programming languages, from C for embedded systems to high-level languages like Python, enabled me to always be learning something new and have contact with different ways of thinking, patterns, and solutions to problems from different viewpoints. This also made me develop the skill to learn something new very fast. Many times I was exposed to different technology and need to learn it in weeks at the point to become a focal point for the team.
Every day at night I ask this question to myself: What did I learn today?
That's me, every day moving forward!
