About
That's me!
I'm Pablo Montenegro, a Carioca from Rio de Janeiro, based in Amsterdam. Full-stack developer, frontend-heavy these days, currently at Studocu. I also run two small online stores and write this blog, in English and in Portuguese, since September 2008.
How I got here
It was not a straight line. HTML in school, RPG Maker in 2002, C++ in college when the web wasn't even a subject, J2ME games for Nokia phones, WordPress and PagSeguro plugins, Magento stores, and then React, Node.js and React Native. I have a degree in Information Technology from Estácio de Sá, and I failed Databases 2, which is a story by itself.
In 2018 I built Resume Builder because tailoring a resume for every job listing was boring. A recruiter found it, asked if I knew React, and a few interviews later I was in the Netherlands. The code was not even following React best practices. It was just useful.
Things I build
Almost always because something annoyed me. Then it ends up on GitHub, because I don't see a reason to keep it to myself.
- Musclog: an open-source workout and nutrition tracker for Android, with no servers, no account and no subscription. It also runs on a Game Boy Color. Don't ask.
- Home Finder: a free rental alert tool I wrote after trying to find a place in Amsterdam. GitHub Actions, Google Forms, zero infrastructure cost.
- Magento Chatbot, manga-converter, a Dutch supermarket nutrition API, and a playable RPG version of this blog, hidden behind the Konami Code.
- Gotinha on Google Play, plus a skateboard platformer that is still not finished, with 23 devlogs to prove it.
The rest of me
I covered E3 in Los Angeles as press for years, as "Pablo Pirata", after starting as a volunteer video editor at Nintendo Blast and writing articles on the side. Later it was Gamescom and Summer Game Fest. I own too many Dragon Ball figures, I have a Miyamoto-signed 3DS, and I ran FingerStore, a fingerboard shop in Brazil. Today it's Fingerboard Supply and Zenkai Zone, for fingerboards and for collectibles and retro games.
I used to skate, now I lift. I also jump off cliffs into the water when I can, and the Netherlands has no cliffs, which is a problem.
You can find me on LinkedIn, GitHub, Medium and Instagram. Comments on posts are open, so just say hi there.