hey, i'm zoey(rinha)

/zoeyrinha

senior software engineer. oss maintainer. elixir em foco co-host.

def zoey do
  %{
    name: "zoey de souza pessanha",
    pronouns: ~w(she they),
    location: "campos dos goytacazes, rj, br",
    identity: ~w(travesty transfem gothic),
    passions: ~w(functional_programming open_source
                 abstract_algebra community_building),
    music: ~w(numetal industrial_metal goth_metal emo),
    tools: ~w(elixir haskell clojure nixos helix),
    believes_in: "the functional way is the right way"
  }
end

// sobre

i'm a travesty software engineer from brazil who fell in love with functional programming and never looked back. i spend my days crafting elegant abstractions, maintaining open source, and co-hosting Elixir em Foco, brazil's first elixir podcast.

my philosophy is simple: if it can be pure, make it pure. if it can be composable, make it composable. if it can help someone, make it open source.

// no que eu tô

music that moves me

from industrial metal to dark psytrance to brazilian funk. music is how i process the world.

deconstructing society

how we build and rebuild concepts like religion and gender, and the systems that shape us.

building communities

tech is better when we build it together, from podcasts to open source to helping artisanal fishing communities go digital.

elixir and math, made approachable

there is poetry in patterns, even when the proofs still escape me.

// open source

anubis-mcp Model Context Protocol SDK in Elixir. transports, sessions, OTP all the way down.
supabase-ex the Supabase ecosystem in Elixir: auth, storage, postgrest, realtime.
peri schema validation by pattern matching, not macros.
exlings learn Elixir by fixing broken code, in the spirit of rustlings.
proto_rune AT Protocol and Bluesky SDK, with a session that refreshes itself.

// me encontra por aí

i'm not really into social networks anymore. i think we are heading the wrong way as a society under this economic system. but you can find me around:

elixir em foco the podcast
bluesky @zoedsoupe.zeetech.io
zoey.spessanha@zeetech.io for the good conversations

nyx says: embrace the darkness of imperative code, then transcend it with functional elegance.