I am Paulo Renato, located in the United Kingdom, and I have over 15 years of experience in Software Development, with 10 years as a Software Engineer and 5 years as a Developer Advocate for Mobile API Security.

If I had to describe myself in one sentence, I would say that I am a self-driven person with strong communication skills, fuelled by my passion for the BEAM, software development, security, problem-solving, overcoming technical challenges, collaboration, and mentoring.

What brought me into Elixir was a 2016 DevOps meetup I attended in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), where I got impressed by how systems built on the BEAM could run at scale, be resilient to failure, and highly available under very high loads.

I am also developing the [Elixir Scribe](https://github.com/Exadra37/elixir-scribe) tool to close some gaps in the Elixir ecosystem and help developers to write more Clean Code in a Clean Software Architecture. This tool aims to reduce code complexity, which translates into fewer bugs and contributes to less technical debt while improving developer experience and productivity.

As a human being, I try to follow three important lessons from my parents: Don't do to others what you don't like for yourself; Don't let for tomorrow what you can say today, but be nice while doing it; Don't sugar-coat your feedback with phrases that require reading between the lines, because they may not be caught or may be misunderstood. This leads me to always ask people I first meet in my personal or professional life to be frontal and direct with their feedback to ensure I get their message in order to be able to act on it.