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Baby's first PGConf

Oct 15, 2023 · 3 min read · In the first week of October, I was fortunate enough to attend PGConf 2023 in New York City. It was a privilege not only to be able to watch many interesting talks and network with other engineers/DBAs, but also because I was one of the lucky ones to...

Learning SQL with Dunder Mifflin

Nov 14, 2021 · 5 min read · Recently I worked on a project where I had to step up my game in SQL. I decided to publish some queries with the context of why I would need them in the hope of helping someone who’s entering this wild SQL world. I feel the context is essential here,...

“Coding is cool but not for me” — A story about gender, socioeconomics, and my first lines of code

Oct 6, 2020 · 4 min read · As weird as it seems since I became a software engineer less than a year ago, the first lines of code I’ve ever written were in the year 1994. I was a freshman in a high school in São Paulo, Brazil, and they had a “technical program” to teach an occu...

How I ended up at a software engineer bootcamp

Jun 9, 2019 · 1 min read · I’m from São Paulo, Brazil and I still remember how stoked I was the first time I surfed the web back in the 90’s. Although I’ve always liked technology, I felt that it would not be the path for me due to lack of resources, proper education, and oppo...