Hi, my name is William and I'm from Brazil, but I'm currently living in Germany.

I started coding some years ago when I was 11. I never thought that programming would be my way of living, at the time it was nothing more than pure curiosity and a nice hobby. Back then I developed some dummy applications, like prank applications. Once I got hired to create a dentist office application, and I failed miserably. Coding just for hobby wasn't good enough.

I joined a developers group called torrenttrader (the forum doesn't exist anymore) and I was struggling to learn PHP and Visual Basic, around 2005. I developed a few mods for the torrenttrader 1.8, and ported some to torrenttrader 2, before the forum get shutdown.

After that I started taking thinkg seriously, and programming would be how I would like to make my money, not because I wanted to be rich (developers didn't use to get that much money as they do today), but because I really enjoyed programming.

I do not have very famous packages nor any famous project, but I have a minor one, very old, and definitely not good and outdated, which I recently discovered that there's someone actively using it on an app, to fetch magic card prices.

This made me start thinking again in opensource, and not only as contributor, but as a technology developer, thus, creating amazing projects.

I know it demands time, and money, and unfortunately I cannot afford quitting my job, so any coke (coca-cola) paid through sponsorship would make me super happy already.