Here I am, back to writing publicly - and it feels long overdue. Moving from Brazil to the Netherlands a few years back kicked off a string of new adventures that quietly pushed blogging to the back seat. This post is me reclaiming that seat.

I never really stopped writing

Soon after my arrival in Eindhoven, I shared my initial impressions about the Dutch worklife on LinkedIn. And for my employers I wrote plenty: Wiki pages, .md files, C4 diagrams. Hopefully that has been useful to my colleagues and will be useful to my future self. But internal documents, by definition, stay inside.

I kept showing up in the community

Between 2022 and 2023, César, Steve, Israel and I hosted the Eindhoven Kotlin User Group (yes, I got to learn a bit about Kotlin!). There, I shared my thoughts about API design and gRPC under a catchy slogan gRPC: the silver bullet of API design?. As a participant, I also joined the Kotlin Dev Day 2022 and the AWS Summit Amsterdam 2025, which were both lively and informative events!

New formats

During this hiatus I also had my debut in podcasts. I joined Patrick Akil in the Beyond Code Podcast twice: first to talk about modular software development and later to have a good conversation about how teams and architecture influence each other. In the Leap into Tech I participated in a roundtable with Ben Quinn, Mark Scheepens, and Kim van Wilgen about Diversity in the Tech Market.

Another unexpected debut was my first ever contribution to the Miroverse with a Miro template for sketching Impact Networks. If you don’t know what an Impact Network is, I strongly recommend checking the Impact Intelligence book by Sriram Narayan.

So, why now?

As John Udell challenged in his post: Too busy to blog? Count your keystrokes.

Writing is one of the best ways to consolidate learning. Every time I solve an interesting problem or discover something new, I want to capture that knowledge and share it, both for others who might run into the same challenges and for my future self.

Welcome back: to both of us!

Update: After writing this first post on this new website, I decided to import my old posts (some that were already public, others that had stayed private) into this new home. That is why you may find posts here that are older than this one.