Today March 31, 2020 was my last day at Skyscanner, and that ends a long and pivotal chapter of my life that started nine years ago. And this is the short story of how it played out. It was raining when we landed on SFO; the date was March 21…

I had some downtime at the end of 2017, so I decided to take a stab at moving our seven-year-old Rails monolith to Docker. The motivation behind it was that I’ve got a new machine and setting up our current stack would take several hours plus I would have to…

We recently launched Trip.com in French, German and Chinese and one of the biggest challenges was to adapt our search engine to support multiple languages. At Trip.com we use Ruby on Rails and most of the API requests to the iOS and Android apps are powered by Solr. When you…

December 4, 2015 The alarm went off at 6:15am, it was 45°F. Waves have been pumping all week and after having an all time session on Tuesday my confidence and excitement were pretty high watching a new swell filling in last night. I grabbed a banana and a protein bar…

Da ideia até a execução — Eu acredito que caminhar é a melhor maneira de conhecer um lugar novo e sentir uma cidade. Eu curto dar longas caminhadas, especialmente quando estou viajando. O único problema é que meu senso de direção é totalmente torto, quando eu penso que tenho que dobrar a direita, deveria ter dobrado…

The behind the scenes of shipping a side project — I think walking is the best way to get the feeling of a city. I love going on long walks, specially when I’m traveling. The only problem is that I suck with directions, when I think I need to turn right I was suppose to turn left. When I arrive…

Less stuff, less clutter, less nonsense. — I keep thinking about these things and the influence they have in my life. I like the idea of having everything that I need to fit in a backpack. Essentials. Living in America made me realized how easy it is to clutter your life with unnecessary stuff, everything is so…

How watching Rocky inspired me to pursue my dreams — I don't remember exacly when it was the first time I watched Rocky, I would say that I was probably between 5 to 8 years old, I remember flashes of that movie like in the beginning when Rocky was fighthing in the church against Spider Rico or when he was…

I read two articles on Medium this morning and in between reads I was thinking about how cool is it to read articles on it. Not just because of the content but the style, the carefully chosen typeface and all the small details that count when you'r building a product, specially one where you allow people to express themselves and for my surprise and coincidence I just received and invite to try Medium and here I am writing my very first post. Hopefully I will feel inspired from now on to put on paper/screen all the ideas that cross my mind and believe more that crazy coincidences may happen for a reason.