Gabriel Simões

Gabriel Simões

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Listen to my story on PyBites Podcast!

Jul 22, 20211 min read 11 views

Short post today. Based on my last article the PyBites Podcast hosts invited me to share my story of how I came to live in the UK and evolve from a chef job to QA Engineer at a global company. I had lots of fun on this wee chat we had and it might be...

How I made my move into software test engineering

Jun 19, 20218 min read 178 views

Life's been busy, in a good way. Since my last article, I finally changed jobs! I actually moved to a new role within the same company. As I mentioned here before, I used to work as an IT support analyst for payment terminals, however this role was u...

How I made my move into software test engineering

My first app built with Flask

Feb 28, 202113 min read 339 views

Disclaimer: this article is not a tutorial. My intent here is to discuss the process of identifying a problem and solving it. Identifying a problem I've been learning Python now for over 1 year and I've done all sorts of courses, tutorials, workshops...

My first app built with Flask

Hey, I'm finally back!

Feb 19, 20215 min read 49 views

The times they are a-changing My last post here was in September 11th, 6 days later my daughter was born and everything changed. I mean, EVERYTHING! During the whole pregnancy, people used to say that our lives were about to be changed forever; I had...

A brief intro to SQL and SQL syntax

Sep 10, 20209 min read 116 views

If you ever need to work with databases - and I believe at some point you definitely will! - you will certainly come across SQL. This is a very nice, intuitive, easy language and also really useful for data purposes. If you're not familiar with SQL,...

Data Science or Software Engineering? Both!

Sep 6, 20203 min read 144 views

After a little break from writing, I'm back to share a bit more about my learning journey. I might take these breaks from time to time for two main reasons: my full-time job, and my daughter who can be born any minute now (and I'm REALLY anxious and ...