Hi! 👋 I'm meleu

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meleu in 15 seconds

• 🐧 Linux nerd since the late 90s

• 👨‍💻 Software Engineer. With experience as a DevOps Specialist.

• 👾 Open Source enthusiast and retrogaming fan. I've contributed to projects like RetroAchievements, RetroPie and RetroArch (more details about my contributions here).

• 🤓 Generalist programmer, currently focused in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem. I also worked with JavaScript (NodeJS), PHP, HTML/CSS, and coded some low-level stuff using C (mainly related to RetroArch).

• 🧼 I like my code clean and maintainable.

• 🐚 I love the Command Line Interface. I have a blog (in portuguese) totally focused on the terminal environment: https://meleu.sh

• 📚 Avid book reader. Maybe you can know more about me seeing the list of books I read.

meleu in 2 minutes

I'm a Linux user since 1999 (which is when I started to work and bought my first computer). At that time I became fascinated by the Unix philosophy (do one thing and do it well) and the hacker culture (intense knowledge sharing).

I spent a big portion of my youth having fun with Linux, shell scripting, C programming, studying network protocols, and sharing knowledge with other nerds on IRC. In the early 2000s I produced some texts (in portuguese), one deep diving the Unix File Permissions and another one about bash Programming

In 2004 I started working in the oil industry, as a Control Room Operator of an Oil Rig (where I stayed for 17 years). Yeah, it wasn't a job in the IT field, but for a lad in his early 20s, that was an exciting one.

In 2011 I graduated in Computer Science (while still working).

In 2016 I started to get involved with open source projects related to my hobby: retrogaming. I started with RetroPie (using a lot of bash scripting), made some contributions to RetroArch (using the C language), and then I became focused in the RetroAchievements project (using a myriad of web technologies like HTML/CSS/JavaScript, SQL, NodeJS, PHP, git, bash, etc.).

In RetroAchievements, as part of the project's leadership, I became some sort of a community manager, where I used a lot of the, so called, soft skills. I also produced a lot of documentation for the project.

(For more detailed info, see Open Source projects I'm proud of)

Since 2018, I started to manage Linux servers for a few customers and also launched the https://meleu.sh/ website, sharing my knowledge about shell scripting (in Portuguese).

I also created the https://logbots.app for a logistics company. It's a follow up web app integrated with a telegram bot, where drivers can update the status of their shipments. That's a project I developed entirely from scratch.

In 2021 I left the oil industry to work full-time as a DevOps Engineer. Mainly handling CI/CD pipeline, test automation and deploying containerized applications to Kubernetes.

In 2023 I decided to focus on Web Development with the Ruby on Rails stack.