About

My name is Fernando Valente. I live in São Paulo – Brazil, but I intend to move to Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia or the US. I’m a Mac, web and iOS developer. Everything started when my dad’s customer gave him a Macintosh Performa in 2000. That was my first computer. I was a kid and I just wanted to play games, I didn’t speak English and no one at my home knew where to find apps for the Mac. To you to have an idea, I could see no difference between a computer with 256 colors and a computer with thousands of colors, I didn’t use to pay attention in those details. I switched to PCs in 2001. My first PC was a Celeron 3 running Windows ME. After Windows 98, ME again and XP I got tired of bugs, re-installations and crashes. I needed something that works. Then, in 2008 I switched back to the Mac. I started programming in 2006 by writing some basic websites. Now I write apps for the Mac and iOS in Objective-C/Cocoa. I started my own “company”. It’s called Chiaro Software. On its website, you will find every app I developed for Mac OS X and iOS, and there’s a lot more to come.  I can program in HTML, CSS, Javascript, ActionScript, PHP, C and Objective-C. I speak English and Portuguese just fine. I can also speak a little French and Spanish. I love music. My favorite singer/composer is Michael Jackson. I became his fan in February – 2009, few months before his death. I also love Tears For Fears, Avril Lavigne, Europe, Beatles, Weird Al Yankovic, CSS, Elvis Presley, Kiss, AC/DC and many others which I can’t remember now. I got an iPhone 4 which is always playing some music. :) My 3 biggest idols are Steve Wozniak, Michael Jackson and Silvio Santos. You probably don’t know the last one. He’s the only Brazilian I’m a fan of. That guy is very good at business and I intend to follow the same career he does: I wanna be a business guy. It’s worth mentioning that my body building idols are Arnold Schwarzenegger and, believe or not, Buck Angel. If you want a brief description of how I am, here ya go:

Dreamer, atheist, programmer, music lover, teenager, Mac expert, Chiaro Software owner and more…

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