Odenir Gomes

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I started English classes with Erica Correia, of BEE (Black English Evolution). So expect posts in both Portuguese and English here.

Royale IQ

I built an app with AI agents specialized in Clash Royale: it analyzes your deck, teaches defense and rotation, and tells you which cards to level up first. First month: +1000 trophies.

Hackathons: which ones speed up your learning the most?

Studying until you burn out? How do you recharge?

Ambition is everything. What are your life goals?

Looking for a mentor? Tips for anyone starting out in programming.

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Chasing greatness: what Kobe teaches about failure and obsession.

Want to master a subject? Teach it. Sharing is the fastest way to learn.

On the way to 10,000 hours: practice, study and build your schedule.

Turn programming into fun. What is your side project?

Want to improve fast? Meet deliberate practice.

The secrets of practice for anyone who wants to succeed as a programmer.

Don't fall for miracle courses. How long does it really take to learn?

A programmer in 6 months? Spoiler: it is not that simple.

Get to know me a little better.

Software engineer (Node.js, React.js)

IbisDev · 2025-01 → 2025-12

Built and maintained the integration between dealerships and marketplaces (Shopee, Mercado Livre and Bees) on the Alephee project, with Node.js, NestJS, microservices, React, Kafka, ArgoCD and Azure.

A lot went down this year. 📽️🍿

Founder (CEO, Technology)

OGS tech · 2024-04 → present

My software company in São Paulo: custom software, ready-made products and applied AI, running inside the client's business.

Jazz is Dead São Paulo

An immersion in music, culture and community: legendary records, the stories of great artists and a dance floor with DJs from Brazil and abroad.

Happy programmers’ day

Celebrated with photos from Code in the Dark, Vale do Paraíba edition.

The recipe for success in programming

Once you accept that learning to program takes time, the recipe I took from Peter Norvig’s essay.

Teach yourself programming in ten years

The Peter Norvig essay I first read in 2017, and its critique of the myth of learning to program fast.

A dream come true

From the FrontIn audience in 2022 to the stage of Teatro Gazeta: the country’s biggest front-end event, now as a speaker.

FrontIn Sampa 2023

Speaker on the Staging stage with “The recipe for success in programming”. July 29, alongside Code in the Dark.

Feel like working in tech?

What the Brasscom survey on salaries and demand says, and why it is good for the field.

How my first talk went

“The recipe for success in programming”, at Will Bank, for the GitHub Open Source Community SP.

Programmers are agents of social change: with code, they solve problems and move society forward.

Announcing my talk at the May meetup of GitHub Open Source Community SP, Saturday, May 20, 2023.

Read my article

I published “The recipe for success in programming”, with tips to speed up your way into the tech industry.

Code in the Dark. 🤟🏾🔥

Code in the Dark mode

A front-end contest with no preview: just code, music and a ticking clock.

AD Samba: an ERP for samba schools

An article about an ERP designed to run samba schools, the organizations behind the Carnival parades.

Software developer (React.js, Node.js)

Intuix Tecnologia · 2021-02 → 2025-01

Rebuilt the compliance application from Laravel to React and Node on a distributed architecture. Led the development team, from documentation and prototypes to a full-stack architecture with RabbitMQ, Postgres and AWS.