Working remote from Brazil, four years in

Before Automatiq I was building landing pages at a Brazilian startup, just getting my hands on React for the first time. I thought that was the job. Then I joined a team five thousand kilometers away, full of great engineers, and something clicked: I wasn’t building pages anymore. I was building SOFTWARE. Real architecture, real tradeoffs, real reviews from people who pushed me. That proximity, even across an ocean and a time zone, changed everything about how I work.

And it happened in English. That was the dream the whole time, working with a team outside Brazil, thinking and writing and shipping in a second language. I used to imagine it. Now it’s a normal workday.

I’m not done. I’m nowhere near the engineer I want to be, and that’s the best part. The learning doesn’t stop, and I don’t want it to. Not next year, not ever.

So when people ask how I deal with remote, I never know what to say. I’m not dealing with it. It’s the thing that let a kid doing landing pages in Brazil end up here.