---
title: About Me
date: "2023-09-19"
---

I live in [Jundiaí, SP, Brazil](https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/-23.1964/-46.8778) with my wife and four cats. I have a degree in [Electrical Engineering](https://www.fee.unicamp.br/) by [UNICAMP](https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/) and I have been working as a software engineer for more than 10 years, mainly using [Python](https://www.python.org/) for **web projects** and **web scraping**.

I am also the co-founder of [Laboratório Hacker de Campinas](https://lhc.net.br), a hackerspace in [Campinas, SP, Brazil](https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/-22.9206/-47.0608).

In my free time I enjoy homebrewing ([eventually I blog about that](https://receitasdecerveja.com.br)) and woodworking (when I am able to spend an entire day at the hackerspace).

Sometimes I publish some videos in my [Peertube account](https://peertube.lhc.net.br/a/rocha/video-channels) about software development in general.

## Projects

I am the maintainer of the following open source projects:

- [Querido Diário](https://queridodiario.ok.org.br/) is a platform that crawls and scrapes official documents of Brazilian cities and making them more easily accessible to the general public.

- [Spidermon](https://github.com/scrapinghub/spidermon/) is a extension that helps to monitor the execution of web crawlers developed with [Scrapy](https.scrapy.org) framework.

- [Joker](https://github.com/lhc/lhc-telegram-bot) is a **Telegram Bot** developed to run in [my hackerspace](https://lhc.net.br/) [Telegram channel](https://t.me/lhc_campinas). It provides a set of useful (or just funny) commands for calendar, finance reporting, [pizza math](https://github.com/lhc/lhc-telegram-bot/blob/main/src/joker/commands/pizza.py) and others.

- [DojoPuzzles](https://dojopuzzles.com) is a page that helps participants of [Coding Dojo](https://codingdojo.org/practices/WhatIsCodingDojo/) sessions to choose a suitable problem to be solved. I created this project many years ago, when I organized these sessions. There are not many updates since them, but it is still very used in Brazilian community.

## Contact

You can find me on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rennerocha/) or the [Fediverse](https://chaos.social/@rennerocha).