Agile on day-by-day of software development Since 2012, I realise that people want to change the way that software development has been building for many years. I think the changes has to begin on top; the majority of programmers, business partners, analysts and others colleagues have no power to change the way that companies has been doing their businesses. Because of that, I believe agile techniques are a powerful tool. Now, we can deliver software continuously: monthly, weekly or daily, using softwares like Jenkins, Bamboo or CircleCI. Fortunately, we can go beyond and taking advantage of Docker and creating platforms where we are able to deliver pieces of software using containers which allow us to build highly-scalable and highly-resilient systems. Going deep on the day-by-day of programmers, I realised how important are techniques like pair programming, test driven development and incremental design to produce systems where the quality can be increased and the errors can decrease as well. Finally, and not less important, the perspective of Product instead of Projects. Nowadays, we have small quads with developers, product owners, agile coaches and, sometimes, data scientists. Designed as small start-ups, that squads are able to be agile and delivering software quickly through Scrum, Kanban and so on. As a result, in just six months, we’ve delivered much more solutions to our customers increasing their satisfaction.

Are north american native speakers just looking to the profits? In my English Learning Journey, I have been facing a strange fact: our brothers from USA are only concerned about profits? Forgive me if I'm rude but I had some cultural differences between me and our brothers from north. I think learning a new language is an excellent opportunity to discover new cultures, making new friends and...make money! But, the order of this process really matters. What do you think?

Top Job Interview Questions! What are your strengths? Well, I’m a good team player. I think we are learning and teaching each other all the time. I’m hands-on too, after doing some research I’m able to implement and deliver new kind of solution. What are your weaknesses? I have to admit, I’m not a good public speaker but I’m working on it, I’ve been practicing with my family and friends meanwhile I’m attending to some meetings. What's your ideal company? First, a company where the employees are allowed to learn and apply new IT development approaches. A place where people are honest and committed, a place where I don’t need to concern about tiny things and where I can feel free. What is your most important accomplishment in your career? I was hired here at my current job because me and another former employee had the knowledge to design and implement a project which could increase the income by 18%. The project was to build an integration between the mainframe and the e-commerce and the deadline was 3 months. We managed to deliver in 2 months, at the end of the first month the revenue has grown 20% which meant more than US$ 9 mi for the company. What attracted you to this company? The opportunity to help another companies, making the difference and delivering the best software solutions.

Journey to the next job! I’m a man who was born in São Paulo, Brazil. Here, in Brazil, good colleges and universities are public which means we don’t need to pay for it, and I was able to pass the entrance exam. After that, I’ve started working as intern in the morning and studying computer science at night. I overcame that! I’ve been working in IT companies for almost 12 years and since the beginning, I’ve been developing software focused on high-availability, scalability, resilience and lowest cost. Nowadays, I’m working as solution architect at a large retailer and my purpose here is moving the entire workload to the public cloud which means, at the end of the process, the company will be accomplished IT costs decrease and system availability increase at the same time. As technical lead, I’ve been leading small squads to become more agile and I’m learning and sharing a lot of IT transformation subjects with these teams.

My first interview in English...a huge challenge! I'm going to have an interview in english next week. Since I've accepted that challenge, my english learning has been growing rapidly! Off course I make a lot of mistakes, but I must think where I coming from...the majority of the countries around the world has introduced the english learning into their education system. But in Brazil it wasn't happened in that way and because of that, I couldn't learn english at school (I've attended to public school my entire life!). Now I have to understand and speak english as so well as I can...in fact, I have a lot of doubts but maybe studying almost 5 hours a day might be helpful! The countdown for the interview has begun and I have less than 7 days. So what do you think that I should do as soon as possible? Have you ever faced a situation like that?