My name is Roberto Selbach Teixeira and I own this site. This is robteix.com, where I write about stuff that I consider “technical,” which is a broad term to cover anything that doesn’t have to do with my family and personal life. Think software development, team management, project execution, but also linguistics, physics, and politics..
About Moi
I was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, but grew up in Caxias do Sul, which is what I call my hometown. I started working as a truck loader for a food distributor. This helped me pay for college (CompSci). After college I started working for a small software company writing medical software.
I also started playing with opensource software and was invited to move to Curitiba to work at Conectiva, then one of the world’s largest Linux distributions. I quickly moved from software engineer to head of the enterprise development team, a fancy name for the group responsible for the execution of software development projects.
In 2004 I left Conectiva and went to work with one of the company’s original founders in a new company as a consultant and technical leader of the “Advanced Software Development Team,” where we were creating the company’s operating system software.
In 2005 I decided to leave the company to face the challenge of working at a big company: Intel Corporation. I started as a software engineer in Sao Paulo. I then moved to Oregon. With the world finantial crisis, I moved back to Sao Paulo and then was invited to head to the Argentina Software Development Center, in Cordoba, Argentina. This is one of two large software development centers Intel has around the world (the other being the Israel SDC.) My title now is Engineering Manager, but to be honest, I am still pretty much a techie, which is really great with me.
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