Welcome to my blog! My name is Pedro Caseiro, and I’m a Portuguese geek who enjoyed so much exploring the internet, and the art of making software when I was very young, which eventually it became my job.
I used to make games in Engine001 and RPG Maker, the true early days of no/low-code platforms :)
As I continued to learn more about coding, both for local computing and web development, I began to create websites for the local community from 2008 onwards. I also created an online community that produced regular content about technology, gaming, and other entertainment areas, with a customized point system to motivate the community to share.
Not long after I made some plugins for SourceMod in another gaming community where I was a member and eventually became an administrator/vice president while also doing a lot of the maintenance and configuration of our infrastructure.
This last experience alone gave me a lot of insight into how to maintain live systems that have to respond in real-time. I got the chance to learn some more web development being used daily by thousands of players/visitors, where I also learned the importance of cybersecurity. To this day, I haven’t found any company that was under as much attack as this community. We were expelled from multiple data centers due to being targeted!
From 2011 onwards, I started investing in my own infrastructure, including VPS, Dedicated Servers, and even collocation in the Netherlands! I hosted my own gaming servers, my forums, my chat communities, and then later started my own web hosting business, which I later discovered was a very saturated market.
In 2014, I started working full-time in software engineering for a company and then started freelancing. After a while, I figured that software engineering was not only about “making things work” and decided it was a good idea to work full-time in companies that could help me grow while pursuing a computer engineering degree to strengthen my skills and learn about the fundamentals that I was lacking, which I’m proud to say that I finished in 3 years.
I also completed the first year of the Master’s degree in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics, which gave me even better insights into that world, but I decided that the time and money investment in the thesis wasn’t worth the title, so I left it at that. At the time, I was investigating the usage of neural networks, mainly LSTMs, to detect cheating behavior in real-time in games like CS:GO. I didn’t go too far, but I had the chance to learn a lot about the state of the art of machine learning.
As you may have noticed, I enjoy playing games, working on personal projects, and pursuing personal growth as a person. In this last point, I’ve been doing some volunteering for a while at a local food bank-like association.
I’m a curious learner, and I hope to encourage you to be one too. Feel free to contact me through Twitter or Email if you have any questions, suggestions or insights to share.
Thank you for visiting, and I hope you find my blog helpful and thought-provoking!