Carlos Duarte Do Nascimento (aka Chester or @chesterbr)
- 🤓 Professional programmer for >30 years (and hobbyist for even longer), still loving it!
- 💼 Worked in companies of all sizes and shapes (including GitHub itself, Shopify and my own); details here.
- 🦈 Just started working at DigitalOcean - in particular with PaperSpace. More on that 🔜!
- 🔧 My passion is to bring people (including myself) joy by building and fixing stuff.
- 🏝️ Recently I've spent some time improving miniTruco (a minimalist mobile card game popular in Brazil).
- 💪 Advocate for social justice, actively dismantling my biases one step at a time.
- 👾 Enjoy playing and building video games (but strongly despise the toxic corners of the gaming world).
- 💬 Love comics and sequential art of nearly all types, genres, places and times (same caveat as above to the 💩-heads).
- 🖋 Blog occasionally, usually about electronics and hardware hacks, but anything goes.
- 📺 "Chester" comes from Chester McTech, a character in the obscure Beverly Hills Teens ("Turma da Pesada") cartoon.
- 🇧🇷 Born and raised in Brazil (the "br" in @chesterbr).
- 🇨🇦 Citizen and resident of Canada.
- 🐘 These days doing social media mostly on Mastodon/fediverse (in multiple languages, but filtering is easy).
- 🤷♂️ Lacking ideas for a proper README.