About

I was born and raised in Belém do Pará, and sports were always a big part of my life. I tried several of them as a kid, and at 12 I picked one to focus on for real: I started training tennis competitively.

From 12 to 17 I lived a life dedicated to the sport, with a regular training routine built around competition. I played the junior circuit, competing in Brazilian championships organized by the CBT (Brazilian Tennis Confederation) and some ITF (International Tennis Federation) tournaments. Along the way I had incredible experiences: I got to know places and people who contributed a lot to who I am.

Because of that life, I had to learn early how to take care of myself. I traveled alone to compete, had to plan my stay in each city and, at the same time, follow my training protocols on my own.

Tennis gave me values I still carry today. It taught me to be resilient, disciplined, analytical and organized, to keep a routine — among many other things that don't fit here. Today I try to apply all of that to my work and my career.

When my tennis career came to an end, I had to decide what to do professionally. I chose a technology degree: I researched the field a lot and got interested in the possibilities and in the lifestyle itself. I had always loved video games and had a thing for anything tech, so the path made sense.

In 2023 I started a Computer Science degree at CESUPA (Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará). That's where I found out I really loved programming and had a real hunger to get my hands dirty. At the end of the first semester I was accepted into IFPA (Federal Institute of Pará) for the same degree and decided to transfer.

Along with that change came my first internship in the field, already working as a full stack developer with Laravel and Vue.js. When I joined I knew almost nothing, and that's where I got my first guidance on what to study. I started researching, taking courses and building my foundation in programming.

After six months in that internship, I decided I wanted to build a career with Java. I started studying the language more seriously and looking for opportunities, until I found another internship where I could work with Java.

That's how I started working at Sankhya, an ERP company. Inside, I found out that Java work was limited to very specific scenarios: the system as a whole was already built and we had no access to the source code, only the ability to write scripts. In practice, my day-to-day was building SQL report scripts and, in some cases, custom BI dashboards for clients.

It wasn't what I wanted, but I knew learning SQL mattered and that I could get value out of that place. So I decided to stay. After ten months, I realized I needed to start actually working with Java and that I should leave. I resigned and focused even harder on studying and on finding a Java internship.

The problem was that Belém had very few places for that. I knew my best option was something remote, but competing for remote roles with no Java experience on my résumé was hard. So I started livestreaming on YouTube while I studied and built projects, with a title that said exactly what I was doing:

“Streaming until I get a job”

After 36 straight days of streaming, I was hired live on stream to intern with Spring Boot at Multidrop.

At Multidrop I started getting real web development experience. I learned about cloud with GCP and got to apply many things I had only done in personal projects and courses — now in a real product, with users and consequences.

During that period there was a work trip to Bahia. The idea was for the team to meet in person and work together to speed up the platform's development. That trip is where the idea of going in-office came up, with a base in Florianópolis.

In my third month on the job I was promoted to junior and moved to Florianópolis. The move required some decisions, one of them being to put my federal university degree on hold and continue at a private one here. I transferred to Estácio and, because of that, ended up going back a few semesters.

I made that choice because I believed hands-on experience would add a lot of value in the short and long term — and I still do. The in-office period was one of total immersion: I dealt with problems I had never seen and learned a lot from them. That's the context in which, five months after arriving in Florianópolis, I was promoted to mid-level.

I'm still at Multidrop. With recent changes at the company, the office no longer exists and I'm back to working remotely — for now, still in Florianópolis.

I lead end-to-end development of Natura Vitalis, an MLM platform with ERP rules and a hierarchical commission engine. Outside work, I build my own products in production: ListaFit turns a diet prescription into an organized shopping list with AI; Recaap reads commits and pull requests and writes plain-language summaries of the work delivered.

This site is where I write about what I'm studying and building. Posts, projects and the bookshelf are all public here.