{"id":14423,"date":"2019-11-07T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/?p=14423"},"modified":"2024-06-26T09:28:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:28:34","slug":"meet-our-people-marcelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/webservices\/2019\/meet-our-people-marcelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our People: Marcelo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Meet Our People: Marcelo\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
\"Marcelo\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How did you enter this career?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 1995, I was an Electrical Engineer Student and had my first contact with the internet at the university lab. I’m a curious person, so I started to wonder how these “websites” are made and a couple weeks later I built my first GeoCities hosted website using a notepad app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a few months researching, studying and  learning by myself, I dropped out of school and got my first job as a Webmaster (the 90’s definition for Web Developer) building HTML, Flash and ASP websites (I know, but it was the 90’s remember?) for a major educational company in Fortaleza, my hometown in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where else have you worked?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After having worked for major companies developing my career for more than 15 years, I decided to move to Canada and start over again. I got my first job here in a digital agency. A few months later I had the opportunity to work in a digital media company and one year later I was invited to work at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fun fact: I worked for 2 years, on my first ever job, interviewing people for a population census when I was 19 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are some of the technologies you have used along the way?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a web dinosaur, I started to build websites before the age of dynamic pages using pure HTML\/CSS. I was there in the dark ages of web development building entire Flash websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After these shameful times, I got redemption by learning ASP and built a custom CMS for the company I was working for. WordPress came into the game, ruled the internet and I bet all my coins on PHP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a web developer before the 2000’s  means you can build a website from scratch, including the design. PhotoShop, Sketch, Figma and Adobe XD are included in my skillset as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, I decided to focus on the front-end and improved my JavaScript, React,  HTML5, CSS3, SASS and modern web development (NPM, webpack, Docker, etc.) skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the best things about your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definitely, the full environment:  The team is awesome. Really. I’m glad to work with talented, skilled, fun, friendly and super helpful people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working in a university\/academic mindset gives me the opportunity to  research, learn new things and, above all, create products as best as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have some exciting projects you are working on right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ I’m working at the new CU Theme<\/a> for WordPress websites creating Gutenberg Blocks with React. I’m always coding in my free time, so I’m working in an exciting Headless WordPress project using React and NextJS for a client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What music are you listening at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m a metalhead. I love heavy metal and I’m in a progressive vibe. The two main bands on my playlist right now are Jack the Jocker<\/a> (from Fortaleza) and Protest The Hero<\/a> (Michael’s<\/a> band).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you reading at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tons of React documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you do outside of work to amuse yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch movies and tv series with my wife, play video games online with my Brazilian friends, go for bike rides and play basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fun fact: I’m from Brazil but I really love winter sports – ice skating, skiing, snowboarding, all of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What exciting plans do you have coming up in the next year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are moving to a house for the first time and I’m pretty sure that will be a huge adventure. I can’t wait to start doing all the fun stuff like gardening and snow shovelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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