Software Engineer and Entrepreneur

I started with computers at the beginning of the Internet’s mass adoption. I have degrees in Information Systems and Software Engineering. My experience goes across some industries, where I highlight finance and tourism.

More than 14 years of experience and counting. I have design and developed systems for several platforms: small devices, desktop, web, hardware integration, mainframes… I am fascinated by working with high-quality, low-cost, well-designed, low-maintenance, high-speed systems.

As a natural problem solver, I have interest in many areas, like design, tourism, leadership, marketing, photography, psychology, finance, geography, administration, leadership, automation… the list gooes on.

What I have been using

I have tested and professionally used many technologies during these years, some more than others. I will not list hundreds of acronymms here, but mention some I like to work with:

• Kotlin is currently my language of choice. It’s Java on steroids. (I also like other languages)
• Spring Framework: Classic. Reliable.
• Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes. Containerization is the new virtualization. I got hooked by virtualization tools since I started with IT.
• Apache Kafka: because streams > queues.
• Nginx + Certbot (to proxy everything to my docker cluster and making the stack hibrid, cloud agnostic and having encrypted communication).
  • I moved to Caddy.
• Apache Avro. In case JSON is expensive you can serialize to raw bytes and massively increase the bandwith between your systems and still count with a strict schema as a contract.
  • There are others like the Proto Buffer. The concept is the same, but without a schema.