Romulo Alves

My name is pronounced like "Roh-mool-oh"

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Born, raised and living in Sapiranga, RS, Brazil.

I learned HTML on GeoCities when I was 9 and built my first freelance website (for a local shoe boutique) at 15 after learning C#.NET.

I have a scientist's mindset and love experimenting with things to form my own opinions, because someone else’s opinion might be useful but not true (an idea from an author I love, Derek Sivers).

For example, I wanted to know more about marketing in 2023. Instead of only studying about it, I went a level deeper and hired a coach. Ended up freelancing as a Twitter (X) Ghostwriter after 3 months in. Later that year, I wanted to delve deeper into email copywriting, so I joined a coaching group (by Francis Nayan) and ended up writing email sequences for a Canadian e-commerce brand that produced insect-based kibble for dogs.

Work

I'm open to work. LinkedIn

My last job was as a Full Stack JavaScript Engineer at PayPal, from 2021 to June 2026. Then, they fired me.

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