- 🕹️ Retro gaming & emulation enthusiast: contributor to RetroArch, RetroAchievements and RetroPie
- 🧑💻 Software Engineer working with:
- C, Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions and GitLab CI)
- Containers and cloud (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS)
- 🐧 I've been a Linux nerd since the late 90s
- 🤓 I write a blog (in Portuguese) focused on the terminal environment: https://meleu.sh
- 📝 Author of Learn Ruby with TDD
- 🌱 My digital garden (my open-sourced second 🧠): https://meleu.dev/
- RetroAchievements: adding achievements to retro games
- RetroArch: RetroAchievements integration in the libretro multi-emulator frontend (C)
- RetroPie: configuration tooling (Bash/Python) for turning a Raspberry Pi into a retro gaming station
I've been interviewed on several podcasts about my work on RetroAchievements:
- The SEGA Lounge: RetroAchievements with meleu
- RAPodcast Episode 5: meleu
- RA Talks #4: meleu (in Portuguese)




