Mateus Interciso

GKL cellular automaton, the classic density classifier — the subject of my master's. 128 cells, 48 generations, random initial condition.

A genetic algorithm converging on a target. One row per generation, one cell per gene; filled where the fittest individual matches.

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mateus interciso — delivery lead, architect, developer
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up since 1996, when a copy of Slackware 3.1 fell into my hands
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Mateus Interciso

I am Mateus

Delivery lead, architect and developer. São Paulo, Brazil.

Welcome to my portfolio. Here you’ll find information about myself, my projects, my work, and anything else you may wonder about.

Some background history

I was born in 1983 in the largest city in Brazil, and it wasn’t long before I found my love for computers and code. When I was 13, in 1996, I started learning programming. The Linux project had just started and I had the luck of finding a copy of Slackware 3.1 with a friend of mine. It was with that Slackware that I started learning ANSI C, writing small programs to solve my mathematics homework. And since I had them, why not sell them to my friends? That’s how I learned about cross compiling — and how to make some extra bucks.

When the internet arrived, that’s when my world really opened up. With the internet came IRC, with IRC came a lot of chatting, and while chatting on the right channels I learned some Assembly. The real question is “why Assembly?” Basically for two reasons:

Needless to say, it was a hell of a fun time.

Then 2002 came, and with it university. I studied Computer Science at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, where I learned a hell of a lot about computers, networks, project management, love, life, and so on. That was also when I started working for real, at small and large companies. I started at Mackenzie itself, then went to Accenture as an intern, then back to Mackenzie, then to a startup named Ouvi (which did marketing on mobile phones, before iPhones), then to an engineering company named Método, and finally to Deloitte.

At all those companies I polished my skills in:

It was also at those companies that I found a passion I still hold: studying complex autonomous systems, focused on genetic algorithms and optimisation problems. That led me back to Mackenzie, to a master’s degree in the artificial intelligence and evolutionary systems line. In 2011 I presented my work at CEC in New Orleans, and in 2012 I finished the degree. Finishing it also started a new part of my life: that was when I got married. And that, that’s another story.

Passions

I do love other things that are not related to IT — only a few, but these passions I definitely have:

I always try to mix work with a bit of pleasure through those three passions. For instance, I’m always listening to something, and I ride my motorcycle every single day I have to go to the office. And drawing is what I use to unwind.

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