hi, who? Adriano, João. I build software.

Socials: X / GitHub

What I'm working on

Lead Developer at Nortech.ai - Digitalizing the marine sector

Joined as a core team member from inception
Developed across all layers: edge device data collection, cloud infrastructure, development tools, parsers, build pipelines, frontends, backends, database architecture, AI UI Streaming, UI abstractions for teammates, etc...
Shaped team culture and practices, both in-person and remote (team is split across Bergen and Lisbon)
Net positive revenue from the first year

How I work

Tools not rules - Prioritize good internal tooling, automate the golden path

Measurement over intuition - It's a tradeoff, but I err on the side of measurement

Iteration over planning - You (usually) get more information from trying it out and exploring the shape of the problem than from thinking about it.

First draft, good draft - I build a rough version of the solution while iterating, then throw it out and write the good one

Early adoption - There's a lot of advantage in adopting new technology early

Relevant tidbits

I'm years old

I've been coding professionally for years now

I started scripting (JASS) at 11 to make custom wc3 maps

Hosted my own WoW private server at 16, modding it to make my friends OP

Skipped college to start working at 18.. Debatable decision

Current tech choices

Infra

Kubernetes - Built several medium sized clusters

AWS ecosystem - My usual cloud of choice. Lock-in conscious

Dockerize everything - Not that hard, and makes deployment very flexible

Gitlab/github pipelines - I'd rather not though, actively looking for the next evolution in CI/CD

Terraform - also CDKTF early adopter

Linux - Used several distros (arch btw) as personal work computers, and admined many linux servers

Web (base platform, many frameworks, servers)

Node.js - many production deployments

React - since it showed up

Next.js/Vercel - early adopter

In the past many a framework was used, including rolling my own for internet explorer 6 (yes...)

Dev tooling

MacOS - Having a single platform for the team is more important than the linux gains

Cursor w/VIM bindings - Best tradeoff of cross team extension building and personal productivity

Nix - Setting up all the team envs with nix (ongoing...)

Teamwork

In person over remote - We're still not there, but VR might tip the scale soon

Slack/discord - for remote comms. Discord has better API, slack has better enterprise face value

Github - Code hosting

Linear - Issue tracking, although usually *just fix it* is a better policy

Monorepo - It's really hard to go back once you've worked with a monorepo daily

Code syncing - (Graphite - PR Stacking) || (trunk based development - with cutting releases for on prod ci pass)

Languages I've used professionally

Typescript - since it showed up

Rust - low power / high perf, edge computer code - actually in production

Python - Barely, but now deployed a few services

PHP - Good(debatable) old days

Golang - A few production projects, mostly for low-level code

Javacript - Many years, but there's barely any reason to write any anymore (except this very website :-)

Stuff I've worked on before

Nearshoring @ https://mobinteg.com/ - Building in-house products and contract work for customers - 5 yrs

Outsourcing @ https://altar.io/ - Building MVPs for companies - 1 yrs

Regra - Oldschool portuguese company, not interesting work - 1 yr

What I'm not good at

Design - I have very little visual memory, internal visualization capabilities, and color awareness

Delegating - I prefer to build tools to empower teammates with data and capabilities, rather than delegate

Following up - I am not the most organized person, and will frequently lose track of emails and comms. Getting better at this is an explicit goal