Tell us about your background in tech and your experience with Atlassian hackathons.
I'm from Goiania, Brazil, and have been in Portugal since moving here in 2019. I have a computer science degree and I have been working as a software engineer for 10 years.
I’ve participated in two Atlassian hackathons. The first was Devs Unleashed, which we won with "The Saga of the Super Dev," a game and learning system that won the Stage prize, and for which we were sent to Las Vegas for the Atlassian event. The second hackathon was Codegeist Unleashed where we won with the code reviewer assistant "ADA AI."
(You can also check out Guilherme's japan telegram screening professional achievements on his LinkedIn profile.)
What motivated you to participate in high-profile hackathons like "Devs Unleashed" and "Codegeist Unleashed"?
I wasn’t chasing these competitions, but I received an email announcing the Devs Unleashed challenge and got curious about it. I decided to give it a shot, but honestly, even with the big prize as a motivator, I never imagined that I could actually win. Especially since the requirement was to create a game, which I had never done.
I took on the hackathon intending to simply finish a project, but as I began to build my submission, my confidence went up. The next thing I knew, we were selected as finalists to go to Berlin!