Igor De Souza

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Igor De Souza

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Igor currently works as a Software Engineer in a Data Engineer team.

With over 20 years of experience with Java and over 10 years in the Big Data world, Igor had the opportunity to work with Hadoop and its ecosystem right when Hadoop was created.

In his spare time, he enjoys playing with Raspberry Pi and is an active member of the Maker community, highly engaged with STEM and CoderDojo.

Igor Organizes a Facebook group for Brazilian IT in Ireland with over 12k participants.

He is currently working on a pet project where he uses a Led Strip to teach basic concepts of data structure e data streaming.

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Foojay Podcast #85: Code, Community, and Opportunity: Making Tech Accessible for Everyone

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