Gabi talks back-end development, moving to Canada, and anime!
Gabi answers some rapid-fire questions including answers from her SenseiOS profile and shares her thoughts on back-end development, COBOL, advice to candidates, and more!
Get to know Gabi in this rapid-fire Sensei Story!
Transcript
| 00:02 | [Chelsea] Oh! Hey Gabi, ready for your Sensei Story? |
| 00:05 | Sure! |
| 00:06 | [Chelsea] How many coffees is that today? |
| 00:07 | The third one. |
| 00:09 | [Chelsea] So as part of our back-end craft, what’s a typical day like for you? |
| 00:13 | We have a kind of an old codebase so I have a lot of challenges what it’s very exciting we’re modernizing our or code and creating more micro services. |
| 00:23 | [Chelsea] What’s a project that you’re excited about now? |
| 00:25 | MS Teams integration. |
| 00:27 | [Chelsea] What made you decide to become a back-end dev? |
| 00:30 | So my first program off all my life it was in COBOL. That’s a very hard programming language and it runs without errors and like feels very exciting. I knew that I would do this for my life. |
| 00:45 | [Chelsea] I’ve never heard that language can you tell me a bit more about it? |
| 00:47 | Sure it was created by Grace Hopper and she’d built a programming language that was the most closest to human language and we didn’t have this at a time for was a big advance. |
| 01:00 | [Chelsea] Hmm! Some of your teammates have commented that you’re a very sociable person how do you put that together with being a back-end dev? |
| 01:10 | I wasn’t always like this but I saw that is was something to improve and it became kind of fun at times. |
| 01:16 | [Chelsea] Do you have a story about being super friendly and talking to strangers? |
| 01:19 | Yeah. I made a friend on the subway and she liked my hair me made a friendship from that. |
| 01:25 | [Chelsea] What’s special about your team? |
| 01:27 | We always help each other even when it’s not our expertise but we always tried to help each other to achieve our goals. |
| 01:33 | [Chelsea] I see we have our Sensei cultural values here, which cultural value is most you? |
| 01:38 | Selfless. |
| 01:41 | [Chelsea] What’s one thing that drew you to working at Sensei Labs? |
| 01:44 | Culture fit for sure. |
| 01:46 | [Chelsea] And you move from Brazil to come and work for us… What’s something about working here that you didn’t expect? |
| 01:51 | I realized that people are very direct here and what is a very good thing and in Brazil we are always concerned to not hurt people’s feelings so it’s interesting. |
| 02:00 | [Chelsea] What do you miss most about Brazil? |
| 02:02 | People are very friendly very easy to get close but we have a lot of Brazilians here so it kind of feels like home. |
| 02:11 | [Chelsea] What’s something about living in Canada surprised you? |
| 02:14 | The diversity of food. We can find food from everywhere. |
| 02:18 | [Chelsea] We have some questions now from your SenseiOS profile: What’s your favorite quote? |
| 02:23 | It was it one for Jim Morrison about exposing yourself to your deepest fears and then the fear doesn’t have any more effect on us and we are free. |
| 02:34 | [Chelsea] What’s three words to describe you? |
| 02:32 | Happy, random, and intuitive. |
| 02:42 | [Chelsea] Starbucks or Tim Hortons? |
| 02:44 | Starbucks. |
| 02:45 | [Chelsea] Have you ever met a famous person? |
| 02:47 | Well I met Steve Wozniak and he signed my iMouse. |
| 02:51 | [Chelsea] Morning, afternoon, or night? |
| 02:54 | I’m trying to be a morning person, trying to wake up at 5 am. |
| 02:58 | [Chelsea] And how’s that going? |
| 03:00 | Most of the days if you’re very energized when I do it but I don’t push my myself too much on it. |
| 03:06 | [Chelsea] So we have the Giving app as part of SenseiOS, what’s a charity that’s important to you? |
| 03:11 | Mostly related to minorities like people that are less represented and animals. |
| 03:17 | [Chelsea] What advice would you give to a candidate who wants to join our team? |
| 03:21 | So we work a lot in team play also be open to like new challenges and also always ask questions. |
| 03:32 | [Chelsea] When you’re not working what do you like to do? |
| 03:34 | I like to watch anime. |
| 03:36 | [Chelsea] And what got you into anime? |
| 03:38 | It’s a weird path – it was Japanese music. |
| 03:42 | [Chelsea] What’s the best impression that you can do of an anime character? |
| 03:45 | Kaizoku ou ni, ore wa naru! |
| 03:48 | [Chelsea] Do you have a favorite character? |
| 03:50 | I have a couple but I could mention Luffy for One Piece and Brook also from One Piece. |
| 03:57 | [Chelsea] Bulbasaur or Charmander? |
| 03:59 | Charmander. |
| 04:00 | [Chelsea] Goku or Saitama? |
| 04:01 | Sorry Goku, but Saitama for sure. |
| 04:04 | [Chelsea] Studio Ghibli, Studio Bones, or Madhouse? |
| 04:07 | Ghibli. |
| 04:08 | [Chelsea] Pokémon or Digimon? |
| 04:10 | Digimon are the nostalgic feeling. |
| 04:12 | [Chelsea] Superhero or super villain? |
| 04:14 | This is a hard question. Depends. |
| 04:17 | [Chelsea] What anime would you recommend to a first-timer to get them into it? |
| 04:21 | A lot of people got into anime through Death Note. It’s a very good story. |
| 04:25 | [Chelsea] And you’re learning Japanese now right? |
| 04:27 | Right. |
| 04:28 | [Chelsea] Can you teach me a phrase in Japanese? |
| 04:30 | Sure. Hajimemashite. |
| 04:32 | [Chelsea] Ah! Arigatō! |
| 04:33 | Dōitashimashite! |
| 04:36 | [Chelsea] I hear there’s a Japanese meal that you really love? |
| 04:39 | Yeah okonomiyaki. |
| 04:41 | [Chelsea] And if folks aren’t familiar with okonomiyaki how would you convince them to try it? |
| 04:46 | It’s like an omelette but a little sweet. |
| 04:49 | [Chelsea] How do you like yours cooked? |
| 04:51 | With a lot of vegetables, moyashi, and not so cooked so it gets a little soft. |
| 04:58 | [Chelsea] What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten? |
| 05:00 | Natto. It’s fermented beans. It smells really bad. |
| 05:03 | [Chelsea] What Brazilian dish should everyone try? |
| 05:05 | Acarajé. |
| 05:07 | [Chelsea] And what’s that? |
| 05:08 | It’s like an African version of the falafel but deep-fried in oil. |
| 05:17 | [Chelsea] What’s the best new food that you discovered since moving to Toronto? |
| 05:20 | Indian food. |
| 05:21 | [Chelsea] If you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive who would it be? |
| 05:04 | Alan Turing. |
| 05:27 | [Chelsea] And what would you eat together? |
| 05:29 | Veggie British breakfast. |
| 05:32 | [Chelsea] What karaoke duet would you perform with Alan Turing? |
| 05:36 | The Smiths – Panic. |
| 05:38 | [Chelsea] And does that go? |
| 05:39 | [singing] Panic on the streets of London… |
| 05:43 | [Chelsea] If you could join any band in the world who would you join? |
| 05:46 | Silverchair. It was because of them that I started to play guitar. |
| 05:50 | [Chelsea] What’s a Brazilian artist that everyone should listen to you right away? |
| 05:54 | Liniker. |
| 05:55 | [Chelsea] Favorite song of all time? |
| 05:57 | Depends on my mood. |
| 06:00 | [Chelsea] What song would you probably be caught dancing to alone? |
| 06:04 | Sissy that walk. |
| 06:06 | [Chelsea] What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to? |
| 06:08 | The Kooks in San Diego. |
| 06:10 | [Chelsea] What’s a piece of advice that you’d be given that you would tell people to ignore? |
| 06:15 | That you’re not best fit for a job. |
| 06:17 | Talking about it, I should get back to mine. |
| 06:19 | [Chelsea] Okay yeah let’s go. |
| 06:21 | [Chelsea] What’s one skill that you would love to master? |
| 06:23 | Leadership. |
| 06:25 | [Chelsea] And, so last question… Some people are nervous about moving to Canada. What would you tell them to alleviate their fears? |
| 06:33 | The cold weather is not so bad. |
| 05:04 | [Chelsea] Oh I see you have some awesome birthday things on your desk so Happy birthday Gabi!! |
| 05:04 | [Chelsea] Thanks so much! |
| 05:04 | Thank you! |
