I was born in São Paulo and moved to Florianópolis as a 10 year old kid. I fell in love with the nature, sport and music culture of the Magical Island.
In the next decade, I became a singer-songwriter, got a Karate blue belt, won back-to-back Carnavals with a samba school and wasted thousands of hours playing League of Legends.
Then I studied Economics at Federal University of Santa Catarina, mostly for my love for History and Math. I learned a lot of Politics, Statistics and Macroeconomics.
But I'd spent too long studying models that weren't applicable in real-life. I felt disconnected from my studies which led to me dropping out after 2 years.
Then came my first contact with programming: as a Data Analyst at a Tech startup. We used Microsoft Excel and Power BI to generate our reports.
With millions of data entries, it wasn't long until my Dell notebook became unusably slow. This led me to learn Python and Pandas to better deal with datasets, as well as Selenium and pyautogui.
I've always been obsessed with user interfaces. My friends couldn't bear me pointing out broken buttons and ugly websites all the time.
When I found out what HTML was, I did a deep dive into the Frontend. I completed FreeCodeCamp's Responsive Web Design and swiftly progressed to Javascript and React soon after.
I became more active within the Brazilian Dev community, sharing quirky UI bugs and building my projects in public such as phived and css2wind. I collaborated with hundreds of developers and contributed a lot to Open Source.
In 2024, I traveled to Torino, Italy to visit my dad. My life flipped upside down and I ended up living in Málaga for a while. After I failed to get a job, I moved to the UK and landed a job in London, where I currently live.
If you want to get in touch, send me a DM on X or an email lukeberrypi@gmail.com.
Smile, you're alive :)
Best,
Luke