Nice to meet you, as I said before my name is Eric and I am Brazilian. 🇧🇷

I started to program in 2014 after ending my high school when I started my Bachelor's in Computer Engineer 🖥. At my first university years I focused on the course but also worked as a programming tutor at the university 📚, I started to study Object-Oriented Programming and Android development on my third period, the academic year at Brazil is split into 2 periods.

In my sixth period of the university, I dropped out and started to work on Android development 👨🏻‍💻. I went work on a construtech startup 🏗, at the beginning I was unfamiliar with some agile patterns and programming architecture as a lack of knowledge from university but in some months I was refactoring the project and made some others project from the scratch at this company, and after 8 months I became the responsible for the Android area 😃.

What does "be responsible for the area" mean? It means that I had to coordinate the team working as a software architect to new projects and helping the other team members on their development, some of my roles were to found new patterns and improvements at the Android community to apply them on our projects.

At this point, I met the 42 👽 and found out that it was planning to open doors at Brazil, at São Paulo to be more specific, and resolved to see what it was for. I met the "école" 🇫🇷 and was amazed, after a recruiting Bootcamp, known as "pool"🏊🏼‍♂️, I was approved and started to plan my city change 🔁. I forgot to mention but I'm from Maceió the principal city of Alagoas in Brazil's northeast🏖.

I sent my curriculum to some companies but in my first interview, I was invited to join one of the best Brazilians tech companies ⭐️. When I joined Ci&T I started to notice the path that I made until that moment and I started to have some knowledge about what was my real programming level, at least on Android development 💡.

On Ci&T I worked just 5 months on a project of the company that leads the electronic payments segment in Latin America and improved a lot my skills on development as a team, we improved a lot the app that we were working on and created a real team in so little time that was amazing 👨‍👧‍👦.

In June 2020 I was invited to an interview on Ítau 🏦, which is one of the world´s largest financial conglomerates 🌎, and was approved on the hiring process.

At this point in the middle of the pandemic that all the world was suffering I had to make a choice between that such team that we made at Ci&T and start at a new team and project on Ítau.

So now I am an Android developer at ítau Unibanco, and I am working on the fraud prevention area so I am very eager with the challenges that I will face soon. I will update this "read.me" soon because I wrote a lot, but I will write something like that on the medium and could put the link here.

• 🔭 I’m currently working on Android development using some languages like Java, Kotlin, SQLite, Realm, ... 💻.
• 🌱 I’m currently learning iOS development and studying programming a lot at école 42 🚀.
• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on any Open Source Project involving Android or iOS development, for now just in native development so.
• 📫 How to reach me: ericcleao@gmail.com or through some of my social media that are at the Read.me beginning
• 💻 I have worked on Android development, using MVC/MVP and MVVM architectures, SQLite, or Realm databases, and focusing on custom components of the design systems.
• 💬 Ask me about anything! I am happy to help and guide you.
• ⚡ Fun fact: Your goal will always be beyond you, even when you reach it 🏔. Hire me 👨‍💻.

⭐️ From ericcleao