felipebrnd

SEEKING WORK | Remote | UTC (Lisbon based)

15+ years of experience

Full stack development

Experience range from migrating applications from monoliths to microservices and building new backend services as APIs to building frontend applications from scratch.

Rate: flat, negotiated on project basis.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipebn

https://iamfelipenascimento.dev/

I'm doing that right now, one thing I learned after my first child is: do your best to be efficient with some good level of effectiveness and deliver your expected output (which should already be reduced) in less time. E.g. Use the time for errands to think on how to approach a problem for example.

Now on the second one, I'm doing sort of this schedule:

- mornings to lunch is work time, my wife looks after the little one, the older one is at kindergarten - lunch is not short break, usually from noon to 2pm, time with the wife and with the little one - 4pm-ish full stop as the older one gets home, I don't accept meetings after this time - 8pm-ish bed routine, sleep 1hr-2hr or so with them - wake up, grind some work until hitting a goal - weekends: I do some prep work for the week, but is 3 hours tops in 2 days

The little one is 1y old now, and this have being going like that for 6m or so, is it healthy? No, you need proper sleep time to be able to give care.

Do I work 8h day? Definitely not, 8h is really rare right now.

I've tried shifting my schedule to start very early, like waking 5-6am but I did not managed to switch.

This does not work on the long term I believe, there were weeks where I fully skipped the night shift and only did the work I could during the day, as I felt that I wasn't able to give care and attention properly being tired.

+1 and if you need you can setup zero trust access that will require login to access as an IAP.

For noise I recommend a noise cancelling headphone, BOSE QC35 is good at it, sometimes I'm wearing it on without music and it's enough.

We have two kids, 7m and 3y-ish, while the older is at kindergarten I do sync work with others or do focus work for about 4 hours.

When the older is back home I only do one meeting (rare) or push something that really really really needs to be pushed. After they go to bed I catch up on deep work for 2-3 hours.

this is as good as the previous ones (and rap is not even my kind of music).

Great work!

From one of your replies, I assume you live in São Paulo, I'm from there.

I've debated with the same question in 2016, not about slavery, but about what life I was living there and what I wanted for my future and for my family.

So will share my story and opinion, YMMV. I decided to take a leap and try to get a job overseas, mainly EU, (software engineer, 10 years of exp) , was the best decision I've made.

São Paulo/Brazil have many issues that won't be solved in the foreseable future or never in my opinion:

- education quality / cost ratio - housing - personal safety - inflation and money value - population

I'm currently living in Lisbon and if home sickness is not an issue for you, I would recommend checking out opportunities abroad.

You will face problems also, housing for example is awful almost everywhere, but I can pay a mortgage with much less interest than in BR, have a car and not worry being robbed with a gun, walk the dog 2AM without looking over my shoulder and provide a better future for my kids, all that with enough work life balance and a normal salary in tech field.

Is there a better term to describe this kind of situation other than "literal, actual slavery"?

It's business, you are selling your time for a price and paying a "premium" for where you are able to live.

What is a fair payment, in your opinion?

Fair is hard to define in my opinion and will vary by too many factors, your perception, the employer perception, your colleagues perception, actual value contribution and so on.

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Hope you find what you want to change about your situation!

I’m doing that for almost 15 years already, and lately I really don’t see value added by it.

Unfortunately I’m still trying to find a way to replace it and get buy in from colleagues and management.

1. It doesn’t really help planning work, unless it’s always the same work. It’s a placebo.

1.1. e.g. team velocity is 20 points , but things are going to work very differently in a sprint with 4 stories of 5 SP and 10 stories of 2 SP. Mainly because the SP includes risk and complexity.

2. Recently saw someone comparing two teams, one doing 80 points the other doing 30. The problem: the former SP range was up to 13, the latter SP range was up to 5, rarely 8. So it still not transferable and meaningless outside it's own context.

3. Not comparable between peers, it doesn't map to the same levels of complexity, amount of work and risk for different people. Mostly people map SP to a range of days or hours and it differs as it's not standardized among peers.

In my team setting I would prefer no estimates and a commitment based approach, but that kinda leaves management without numbers to count besides features and bugs delivered (which is good enough to me).

That’s actually a great idea on how to move this further!

Voting/reactions are things I left for a second iteration, which I may frame like that.

Thank you for the feedback!

This is an idea I had since sometime and the first attempt was thrown away due due lack of focus on the goal, this is the second take where it was driven by the whole pandemic situation.

It was fun to build, may not worth nothing besides that it was built and published, which was the main goal.

All feedback is appreciated, if it get any traction I will work more on this as there are lots of room for improvement.

Great to see another developer going for the same type of crazy building idea I play in my head.

Today I live in an apartment but that was definitely something I would love to have in a house with a backyard!

Looking forward to see the finished piece and all the best with the triplets, as a father I can imagine how fun it is going to be!! :)

I’ve recently used https://miro.com/ and overall was a good experience to collaborate

https://www.pullrequest.com/

I’ve heard about them after they acquire the freelance platform https://moonlightwork.com.

Auth0, did it yesterday, authentication ready to test in 15 minutes.

For backend was very quick and refreshing to use kotlin and javalin.

Hey, love the idea!

I could have actually used it recently.

My 2 cents:

-> would be nice to read the job description before "applying" to it, this was the very first thing I missed because only the technologies, level and so may not be enough.

-> what about potential salary? maybe that would also be a decision factor

Ultrawide experience has been great, I use it at my home office and 2 screens at the company office and the ultrawide offers much more readability and productivity.

Exactly (including the office situation) here.

Some days I would just do obligations like meetings and urgent stuff at the normal hours and leave the deep work to do when she and the baby were asleep.

This was definitely the hardest thing to balance...

Senior Engineer in Lisbon here. Feel free to reach me, my e-mail is available on my profile.

Cool, what about the whole gender pay gap?

Would make it more interesting being able to add it together with the salary data...

Many companies in Europe: http://landing.jobs

Actually there's evidence, they are not saying that they didn't did the fiscal maneuver, they are saying that other governments did the same and not got impeached.

I agree with your point about the impeachment, it's a political maneuver.

We are stuck with two options (and both are bad):

1) 2 years of stagnation and political fight inside the government

2) 2 years of maybe a recover or a complete disaster

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I was doing some research on Pasadena case, and found this

https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http...

I don't believe that oil will bring so much investment these days... Specific the pre-salt layer which is really expensive to be explored

And the post says that only 2% would vote for Temer, but forget to tell that the president has a rejection of 70% and Temer is only there because of the president party. I don't believe this is going to be so well, but its complicated to she keep going because the other politicians doesn't support her anymore.

I believe he is talking about the Pasadena case, that was a really strange deal and a lot of people condemned back there.

A lot of unusual stuff has been going on with the government, from a VP been distant from the president to the president offering positions for receiving support. I believe this president government fall a part by lack of political support, and the opposition received it with open arms.

Then this government actually had some irregularities which have been ignored in other situations, but this time they are using it to process the president, which are going to be judged or not if Senate understand that she didn't commit any crime.

Media here always supported one side only, I don't remember seeing it divided.

The process she is going through is not about corruption, is about fiscal responsibility, some money had to be passed to public banks and the government delayed it to close the balance without showing some financial problems.

Look like an amazing tool to have.

With it one would be able to connect only through wweb console ? (couldn't find it on the docs)

I found it very interesting and a few months ago looked out for something like that for sharing interesting content with my team but didn't find anything.

We will give it a try and then I will post a feedback.

SEEKING WORK | Location: São Paulo - Brazil | Remote FREELANCE only

Backend skills: PHP, Java, Node.js, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Linux

Frontend skills: Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5/CSS3, Bit of Design

LinkedIn: https://br.linkedin.com/pub/felipe-brandão-nascimento/83/256...

Github: https://github.com/felipebn

Email: felipe.nascimento1@gmail.com

Fullstack developer with more than 8 years working in small and big projects.

Besides from working on technologies and platforms which I already have experience, I would accept to work on projects for Android or IOS that doesn't require tons of experience or are with tight budgets and don't need an experienced developer.

I work with a small team (10 devs) working with JIRA Agile + Stash, the seamless and easy integration between then makes the whole development process very natural as we also use JIRA to Customer Support (tickets via email).

But i also used Bitbucket for other projects, which i think is a better option than JIRA+Stash for less than 5 people and has free accounts.

Before we go to Stash we tried to setup GitLab, but we had a hard time setting it up.

Maybe an investment system, where an individual may invest on a team or player and get some ROI.