If you’re seeing this interview draft, it means you’ve recently published on HackerNoon a story that the community found interesting and/or valuable. For this reason, we would like to help the community get to know you better as well as find out some writing tips from you.
While this template is automatic, our interest in the answers below is genuine and our human editors (and some cyborg wannabes) will review it before publishing.
So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests.
I’m João and I am a Software Engineer for more than 10 years now. I am technically a Software and Telecom engineer, but most part I have only been doing software engineering professionally. There are many things I love to do and that of course includes making Tech videos and writing blog posts and articles and maintaining my website. Outside work and outside Tech, I am someone very curious about biology, which is why I like to try to maintain a garden where I grow thing like blueberry bushes, honeysuckles, gooseberry bushes and I also love photography. I mostly enjoy to photograph nature, cities and things with lights. Further I also like to enjoy my time doing stuff related to art for example video, photo editing and style editing. Outside of all of this I also enjoy music, series, films, travelling, cooking and from time to time the occasional electronics project.
Interesting! What was your latest Hackernoon Top story about?
My latest Hackernoon Top story was the one I did about Kuma, which is about a way to creat Meshes using Kuma-Meshes, where we can have a much more granular control over the data flow within our own network, which, amongst other things, can protect an organization against internal bad actors.
Do you usually write on similar topics? If not, what do you usually write about?
A the moment I exclusively write about Tech, although I can form time to time relate those posts with other kind of topics like opinionated arguments or even politics when they have the potential to influence tech. It can also be that I can write about how some particular tech stacks may influence our approach to tech or even society and and environment. But the main focus is always tech.
Great! What is your usual writing routine like (if you have one?)
I do not have a specific writing routine, although I am writing a lot more these days.
Being a writer in tech can be a challenge. It’s not often our main role, but an addition to another one. What is the biggest challenge you have when it comes to writing?
My biggest challenge in writing is creating a functional example as fast as possible. Creating a story, implementing needed elements, making them run, creating tests for it, creating databases or any other persistence mechanisms for it and try to guarantee as much as possible that people can use the examples without walking against errors or faults is usually a very energy intensive work. Therefore it can take longer than desired.
What is the next thing you hope to achieve in your career?
I want to be as successful as possible with my own effort and work and I want to share my experiences and share my knowledge with other colleagues in the world of software engineering. Don’t know if it eventually can become a full time job but if it does it will probably be that next thing that I would love to achieve.
Wow, that’s admirable. Now, something more casual: What is your guilty pleasure of choice?
Listening to Madonna’s Ray of Light album.
Do you have a non-tech-related hobby? If yes, what is it?
Yes! I love to make photos of wild life. I especially love making macro-photos of leaves, insects and flowers, or also minerals, rocks, glass, metals and anything that looks outstanding in a macro-photo.
What can the Hacker Noon community expect to read from you next?
I usually write more about topics related to the Kotlin programming language, however, having said that, I am finding more and more interesting to write about security and operations from the DevSecOps area, like I did in my article about Kuma. I think we can expect to read more about the SecOps area in my next articles, but I will still write about Dev.
What’s your opinion on HackerNoon as a platform for writers?
I think HackerNoon is a unique platform for writers to share knowledge about Technology, because it is very recognizable and a lot is automatically done for us like for example in this last article when it comes to translating my Kuma article in multiple languages. That was a very nice surprise to see. All in all, I think HackerNoon really appeals to Software programmers, Engineers, Developers and even Business and so I’m very happy to keep writing for HackerNoon.
Thanks for taking time to join our “Meet the writer” series. It was a pleasure. Do you have any closing words?
Yes, thank you for giving me this great interview. I really appreciate the boost given to my article. I hope to be able to keep writing for HackerNoon for as long as possible. It is a pleasure to do so. Thanks again for the incredible support and for being there.