Hire Me

Contents

• Main technologies in my toolbox
• My principles
• Main interests
• Personal/side projects I've built from scratch
  • LogBots
  • RADocs
  • RABot
  • RANews
• Open Source projects
  • RetroAchievements.org
  • RetroArch
  • RetroPie

Main technologies in my toolbox

• WebDev Ecosystem
  • Ruby on Rails
  • JavaScript / TypeScript / NodeJS
  • API testing tools (Postman, Insomnia, Hurl)
  • Test Driven Development
  • HTML / CSS
  • also worked with Python, Golang, PHP, C.
• DevOps Ecosystem
  • GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes / ArgoCD
  • Digital Ocean / Google Cloud Provider (GCP)
• General
  • Unix command line sorcery
  • strong shell scripting knowledge (see https://meleu.sh/)
  • git

My principles

• Primary technical imperative: managing complexity.
• Writing clean and manageable code is the way to go faster.
• Act on the bottlenecks: "any improvement made anywhere besides the bottleneck is an illusion."

Main interests

• Test-Driven Development.
• Working effectively with legacy code
• DevOps Culture

Personal/side projects I've built from scratch

LogBots

In 2018 I created a follow-up system for a local logistics company.

In the website, developed with PHP, the user uploads an Excel spreadsheet with the shipments' info, the data is parsed and persisted in a MySQL database.

I also created an API (PHP) and a telegram bot (JavaScript/NodeJS) to interact with it. The truck drivers use the telegram bot to update the status of their deliveries.

This system is still in use today.

Technologies:

• LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• HTML/CSS/JS
• DigitalOcean (Cloud Provider)
• JavaScript/NodeJS (telegram bot)
• REST API

RADocs

Created tools that converts a github wiki into a beautiful documentation webpage.

• Repository: https://github.com/RetroAchievements/docs
• Wiki: https://github.com/RetroAchievements/docs/wiki/
• Website: https://docs.retroachievements.org/

Technologies:

• mkdocs
• Shell Scripting (bash)
• GitHub Actions

RABot

The RetroAchievements Discord Bot, consuming a lot of 3rd party APIs.

• Repository: https://github.com/RetroAchievements/RABot
• Discord Server where it runs: https://discord.gg/dq2E4hE

Technologies:

• JavaScript/NodeJS
• DiscordJS module
• consuming a bunch of 3rd party REST APIs

RANews

RetroAchievements digital magazine. I've built this to learn more about CSS.

• Website: https://news.retroachievements.org/

Technologies:

• HTML/CSS
• Jekyll as the Static Site Generator

Open Source projects

RetroAchievements.org

What I did:

• contributed with the implementation of the RetroAchievements feature in the RetroArch (building/testing implementation in various architectures).
• contributed with code for the backend.
• server maintenance (Linux/NginX).
• community management

Interviews & Podcasts

Since I put a lot of effort into the RetroAchievements project, I was interviewed on some podcasts to talk about myself and my involvement with the project.

• The SEGA Lounge - RetroAchievements with meleu
• RAPodcast Episode 5 - meleu
• RA Talks #4 - meleu (in Portuguese)

RetroArch

RetroArch is a highly portable multi-emulator written in C.

I've made some contributions related to the RetroAchievements feature. Here's the list of commits.

RetroPie

RetroPie is a collection of shell scripts that turns a Raspberry Pi into a retrogaming station.

I've added some automated configuration features, using bash and Python. Here's the list of commits.