Alessandro De Oliveira Faria
Cofundador at openSUSE Project
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro De Oliveira Faria is a seasoned co-founder and researcher with 16+ years of hands-on experience in AI, biometrics, and Linux-based high-performance computing, leading ventures like MultiCortex and OITI Technologies. Self-taught since childhood, he pioneered CUDA adoption in Brazil, developed the CERTIFACE facial biometrics technology and the EXO AI Linux HPC platform, and has been active in Android NDK and neural networks since the late 2000s. A prolific communicator, he has delivered 250+ lectures and written extensively for Viva o Linux (120+ articles, 9M+ views) and other publications. He blends academic-style research with product-focused engineering, contributing practical fixes to open-source projects such as a terminal image viewer that improves robustness and file-output features. Based in São Paulo, he is deeply embedded in the tech ecosystem as an Intel Innovator, openSUSE ambassador, OWASP chapter leader, advisor to industry and legal firms, and mentor for inclusivity initiatives like CyberSecurityGirls BR.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (11)
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
ansi-colors9
command-line-parser8
command-line-arguments8
file-processing8
file-handling8
fileio8
argument-parsing8
file-access8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Small C++ program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily contributed to the core functionality of the terminal image viewer. Their work focused on adapting the application to handle edge cases, such as when standard output is redirected to a file or when the terminal window size is zero. They also introduced features for saving the image output to a file and added command-line options for configuration. This involved modifications to the main application logic and incorporating file output capabilities.
ansi-codescppascii-graphicslinuxrgb
cabelo/news-o-o
May 2020 - Jan 2025
📰 News from the openSUSE Land
Contributions:24 pushes, 12 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
newslandopensuse
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