Who am I!?

Hello, my name is Arimatea Neto, I’m in my twenties and I’m from Olinda, Brazil.

As almost every Brazilian I love to go to the beach, to play soccer and Carnival. However, unlike many Brazilians I really love to listen to Rock and Blues.

My dream to become a Computer Scientist began when I was about 10 years old and decided that I would study it at the University. At first I didn’t have much knowledge about computers, I was just into games. But as I was growing up, I learned more and more. I even had my own servers to play games like Counter Strike and Tibia with my friends.

When I started the University in 2010 I didn’t have any idea about programming. At first I was scared and didn’t like it. However, as I was learning new things and studying different programming languages and paradigms I fell in love with it.

I became compulsive about studying programming languages and at the first three years of my undergrad I had learned a lot of things like Java, Python, C++, C#, Haskell, Lisp, Prolog, Assembly, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PostgreSQL, Oracle SQL, MySQL and much more.

In 2013 I had the greatest opportunity of my life. I was accepted as an exchange student at the University of Toronto, Canada. The program, endorsed by the Brazilian Government, was divided in 3 parts: 4 months of english, 8 moths of Computer Science Undergrad and 4 months of supervised internship.

I took that as the opportunity of my life and I used that 16 months to learn more about Computer Science, at that time I started studying things such as Neural Networks and Data Science. I also used my time in Canada to improve my english and most importantly, to meet new people and learn with other cultures.

At the end of 2014 I came back to Brazil to finish my undergrad. I still had one year at my University, so I used that time to learn more about Data Science, studying things like Data Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Recommending Systems and so on. I also developed my capstone project. It was about Cloud Computing and Multi-Tenant architectures (you can check it out here).

Finally, in July of 2016 I finished my undergrad at Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil and fulfilled my dream to become a Computer Scientist.

Nowadays I’m working as a Python Developer in a company based in Recife called Intelivix.