I'm a software developer living in Criciúma, a small town in the south of Brazil. I have a passion for coding and learning new things, specially programming languages. I'm currently playing with Erlang and OCaml.

Recently I co-founded a web development company called JetWorks. I’m the lead developer, writing custom web apps and extensions for open source CMS (mainly Joomla). If you need web development work, please contact us!

Tools of choice

I use Aquamacs on a Macbook running Mac OS X 10.6 to work at home, Emacs on an eeePC 1005ha running Ubuntu 10.04 when I need to work outside and Ubuntu Server on servers. I use Chrome for browsing and debugging, and ZSH is my default shell these days.

My web framework of choice for small applications is Sinatra, and most of the time I use Python or Ruby as general-purpose programming languages. I don’t really like PHP, but it’s useful sometimes. I’m studying Erlang now for writing server-like concurrent-based applications, and I’m learning more of Javascript by playing with CouchDB.

Recommendations

"Dirceu is a great enthusiast of new technologies and development techniques, always looking for better ways to do his job. His team spirit is exemplary and I learned a lot from him."
Diego P. do Nascimento worked directly with Dirceu at Weimar Consultoria / PyTown.com

"Dirceu is a very competent professional, always concerned about being a productive developer. I strongly second his technical abilities using python, Zope and Plone."
Fabiano Weimar dos Santos managed Dirceu at Weimar Consultoria / PyTown.com

"Dirceu is a very dedicated developer, always bringing new knowledge, technologies, languages and agile practices to the team. His contributions were very important to the success of our projects."
Fabrizio Colombo managed Dirceu at Unesc

"I know Dirceu for 5 years now, and I can assure that he is an excellent person and professional. He is one of the most smart and methodic people that I know, and can learn (and put in practice) new skills pretty fast. I always learn good things when I talk to him."
Rodrigo Spillere works with Dirceu at JetWorks