Brief personal introduction

🌙 My name and it's spelling:

Hello everyone! I'm Luã Bida Vacaro, aka Bida, from Brazil.
My first name's pronunciation is a bit tricky in English, since it's very hard to native Americans to pronounce the sound of ã (see an example of three words with ão in Portuguese and try it out!). Besides it, my friends and colleagues call me by my surname, Bida, which I think its classy.

🏔️ Back history and aspirations:

By the time I'm writing this, I'm 23 years old. But took me about 7 years to find out that I really want to be a programmer. Before college I did a two years professional construction course to be an civil engineer, in business college I worked half-time in a hospital's pathology secretary decrypting doctor's writings to the system, then in a detailing shop polishing cars. And finally, gave everything up to a 4 month work exchange to USA, working at Grand Targhee Ski Resort, WY, a place where I will certainly come back to. With the pandemic heavily hitting Brazil in 2021, I've decided to start studying Python.
Today I felt in love for the open-source philosophy of coding thinking on the community usage, and I'm very into the open-source-software movement pushed also by Linux in the early days and largely accepted by programmers communities all over the globe.

Experience

Here are some frameworks that are not totally strange to me:

Open Science Labs:

In the middle of 2022 I got in touch with real projects in open-source communities. I met the manager of Open Science Labs and started contributing on incubators projects that involve Python packages creation using Cookiecutter, dependencies management using Poetry, SQL Queries improvement in a Django webserver, and so on.
Inside OSL we have open workshops and mentoring, where we present Open-Source projects in a inclusive environment, with free English Classrooms, Blog posts, courses recommendations and interactive events about Python!

Sequitur:

Independently of what I ever did, hardworking and curiosity have been helping me along the controversies of the way. Feeling this passion and having more experienced people by my side fuel me to wake up every morning willing to learn and do the best I can. More and more I want to be in touch with open-source communities to share and receive what we have best: networking.