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Location: São Paulo, Brazil Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO

Stuff I'm Comfortable with:

- Python [Django, Celery, Pandas, Numpy]

- Databases [PostgreSQL, PostGIS, SQLite]

- Data Visualization [D3, Plotly]

- JavaScript [Vue.js, ES6, jQuery, React, Cordova]

- Open Data [OpenStreetMap contributor and activist]

- Linux Administration

- Data Engineering

CV: http://tiagofassoni.github.io/fancy-resume/

Email: tiago@cappuccino.works

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagofassoni/

About: Generalist Programmer, Data Scientist

7+ years of programming/data analysis/linux systems administration. I do mostly freelance projects and remote work these days.

Thanks, I'll try to get in touch with them.

I'd love to help on the recommendation engine. I'm (for two years now) at the top 1% of users.

I also happen to live in Brazil, to be a native portuguese speaker and the recommendation system absolutely sucks. I get a lot of articles regarding startups and Trump, but absolutely nothing in portuguese and/or about Brazil.

About me - I was employed on a long-term contract, which ended in 2015. Had no idea what to do in 2016 and, as far as I was concerned, was a complete professional failure. But at least I had financial reserves (yay for unions!) I started crawling a government website to open data that should be truly open. Soon I created a bot network to open data and, for the first time in my life, felt real nice about a programming project I was doing. I created a website showing some disturbing analysis on urban life using only open data. That project caught some attention, which led me to some very interesting freelance work. Enough money so I could afford living expenses. Got diagnosed with OCD and anxiety disorder. Taking meds, doing behavioural therapy and it is working wonders.

Fallback - Anxiety is hard. Not enough freelance work. Financial reserves are dwindling. I'm already looking out for jobs. Probably won't get remote work. Definitely not wanting to go back to an open floor office and all the huge pile of anxiety it brings.

SEEKING WORK Remote (Based in São Paulo, Brazil)

Stuff I'm Comfortable with:

Python, Data Analysis, Databases, Data Visualization, JavaScript, Open Data, GIS, Scrapers, Linux Administration

CV: http://tiagofassoni.github.io/fancy-resume/

Email: tiago@cappuccino.works

About: Generalist Programmer, Data Scientist and Bicycle Activist. 7+ years of programming/data analysis/linux systems administration. I do mostly freelance work and remote work these days.

Recent work includes:

- Crawlers for opening public datasets in Brazil

- Website for searching Freedom of Information Act requests in São Paulo

- Website for public consultation on locations for semaphores for blind people.

- A website (http://cappuccino.works) on Data Analysis using Open Data (and releasing all the code used as opensource), so independent journalists in Brazil could do data-based reporting on important issues. So far, the plan is working, I've worked with several news venues in Brazil and even international NGOs, such as Transparency International.

Location: São Paulo, Brazil Remote: YES Willing to relocate: YES

Stuff I'm Comfortable with:

- Python [Django, Celery, Pandas, Numpy]

- Databases [PostgreSQL, PostGIS, SQLite]

- Data Visualization [D3, Plotly]

- JavaScript [Vue.js, ES6, jQuery, React, Cordova]

- Open Data [OpenStreetMap contributor and activist]

- Scrapers [mostly with Python, but I'm increasingly becoming an expert in finding loopholes around captchas]

- Linux Administration

CV: http://tiagofassoni.github.io/fancy-resume/

Email: tiago@cappuccino.works

About: Generalist Programmer, Data Scientist and Bicycle Activist. 7+ years of programming/data analysis/linux systems administration. I do mostly freelance work and remote work these days.

Recent work includes:

- Crawlers for opening public datasets in Brazil

- Website for searching Freedom of Information Act requests in São Paulo

- Website for public consultation on locations for semaphores for blind people.

- A website (http://cappuccino.works) on Data Analysis using Open Data (and releasing all the code used as opensource), so independent journalists in Brazil could do data-based reporting on important issues. So far, the plan is working, I've worked with several news venues in Brazil and even international NGOs, such as Transparency International.

Location: São Paulo, Brazil Remote: YES Willing to relocate: YES Technologies: Open data, Data analysis, Sqlite, Postgres, Python, Pandas, Plotly, Javascript, React, WordPress, Linux, OpenStreetMap, GIS Résumé/CV: http://tiagofassoni.github.io/fancy-resume/ Email: tiago@cappuccino.works About: Generalist Programmer turned into data scientist/journalist. Worked as a programmer for years, right now I do freelance work for several NGOs such as transparency International on data journalism. Created a website using open data to show interesting insights about the world we live in (mostly portuguese for now, sorry): https://cappuccino.works

Let me explain which is the innovation of it:

There are offline OpenStreetMap clients, but there aren't ways to update said map offilne, or to create "mini-OSM" that later can sync with the main one.

For instance, if you're doing a survey in Amazon with a local community, you would need to make a survey, go back somewhere with internet, sync the data with OSM, download the new file and go back to the local community.

The innovation those guys are making is to create a mini-OSM, so the village could have its own mini-OSM, and later that mini-OSM could be synced to the main one.

They are not the only ones trying to do that, an NGO called Digital Democracy is also trying (https://digital-democracy.org)

Actually, building a critical mass of streetView-like data can happen while having other goals in mind.

For example, I live in São Paulo and I'm a member of OpenStreetMap. Every time I ride in a bike lane, I take photos of it with mapillary, so it gets way easier to map them.

By the way, the OSM coverage of bike lanes in São Paulo, because of the help of mapillary, is the best one in all maps available (even the city hall ones)

Well, not everywhere. Here in Brazil, Androids have the (by a huge margin) biggest share of the market and of the mobile traffic.

Thank you!

I am a brazilian and I didn't know ANYTHING about those things. Thanks!

Can you cite examples of non-weapon projects of Brazilian military? (seriously, I'm curious here)

You're completely right. I totally forgot adding corruption in the analysis. Sorry.

Let's see what happens, but, as a brazilian, I think the encounter will result in absolutely nothing.

The current state of brazilian government's cyber security is a joke. Brazilian army actually made a phone with cryptography, which the president and her ministers just refused to use.

The response the telecom ministry gave to the wiretapping scandal of the e-mails was to ask for the brazilian mail to make a secure e-mail system, stating: "if they have been safely delivering mail for 350 years, they surely are to be trusted making a e-mail system".

As a sidenote, there is very few data security in the brazilian governemt, with a call to a friend who is a junior analyst in a bureau of statistics I can get a list of ALL brazilians sorted by the local equivalent of the Social Security Number. No access logs whatsoever.

I hear some departments actually implemented decent security, but the current state of affairs is a total mess.

Those are common in Brazilian banks as well. At least four of the six biggest (I don't remember about the last two) do two-factor authentication.

Another cool thing I've seen in Banco do Brasil was the need to authorize the computer you're going to use in a ATM or in a 1-800. If I recall correctly, they do that with a Java applet.

Recently they also launched a common-malware-search-and-destroy application of MANDATORY use in Windows computers (my mom uses, she asked me. And yes, the digital certificates were all valid).

Actually, they are doing just that.

They are one of the forces driving a project for a encrypted e-mail system: https://leap.se/en/home

They also issued a call to arms asking for volunteers on the project not so long ago.

By the way, that's exactly why I left a corporate career at a bank: I was the only person in the entire floor to question the dress code, I was the only person in a 10.000 people center to commute by bike (among other things) and I got tired of being the ugly duck and having my ideas being completely rejected just because they were different.

If you take a look at the ads, instead of skimming them, you'll see each ad is for a different company in a different city. So it makes sense to have multiple posts and it is in no way spamming.

Just consider a single post saying "Hey, we have several positions in several places in the world", that does not convey any information.

They are trying to be helpful and you're replying with "screw it, they're recruiters".

Disclaimer: I use their services. They are in no way a shitty recruiter service and in the first e-mail exchange they say which is the company.

Have you even seen the list of contributions and modules he has?? That is way different of just having "Perl" in his profile.

About the snowball of utter dump... that's what downvotes are for.

Yeah, but the offline maps do not work in Brazil due to licensing restrictions. So OSM has an advantage there.

Would you care to give some examples? I am genuinely curious!

Do you have any clients in finance? If so, how do you deal with the issue of "it's sensitive, we can't let you have this information"?

You were working in EMBRAPA?

(I ran away from there because of the shitty payment) ((Nowadays I work in finance...))

Finance:

I work in Business Intelligence, on the backend side of things. SAS, Python, Bash, Excel and Access (SAS is the tool of choice on most BI environments, especially on enterprise - Hadoop is not known in this world yet).

Thins are heavily manual, I am writing python scripts so some of the things get automatized and also to wrap some of the various data sources (lots of TXT files dumped by mainframes).

Also, I have to deliver some data files in Excel or Access. Python and Tablib are very useful on that regard.

Before that, I worked a lot of time as a sysadmin and some as a mathematician developing models in finance.

Link to syx library: http://packages.python.org/six/

Anything by Radio Nacional de España, please take a look: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/rne/

Also, there are two great shows aired by the same basque guy, "Ciudad K" and "Escepticos". Both of them are available for free viewing anywhere in the world (I am located in Brazil)

Yes, but the intent of Kyte Phone is to make the phone simple.

If the kid can replace the default launcher, she does not need an special UI in the first place.

(If all you want to do is micromanage your kid's life through GPS monitoring, is it possible to install a hidden GPS tracker?)

You can also go to the folder "assets", under "system", delete all contents then chmod 444.

That folder has all the special offers. The Kindle turns the permissions back to the default, but since I don't usually turn on the wifi, I only have to deal with the kindle asking me to go online to see the special offers.

Seriously. That is not an improvement on UI. Ubuntu has that for ages. It is just microsoft playing catch-up

I've got invites to share, if anyone wants, just tell me the e-mail.