I have many interests.

Over my years of exploring different hobbies and professional activities, I heard that if you don’t focus on one thing, you end up like a duck.

“Ducks can walk, swim and fly - but are not great at neither. Don’t be a duck.”

To those voices, my only response is: *QUACK*

First thing you need to know about me is that my name is Henrique Fuschini. The second is that I love making puns with my name.

I’m a tech nerd born in Brazil currently living in Austin TX. I create things with technology (some of them useful, most not so much).

As far as I can remember I’ve always been interested in computers. What started as pure happiness for using this magical machine to play games, talking to friends and watching Rock Lee fight Gaara at the sound of Linking Park over and over, eventually turned into a career.

While most kids wanted to be astronauts, firefighters or (in Brazil) soccer players when they grow up, my first profession of choice was inventor - I was 5, mind you.

The thing that brings me the absolute most happiness and fulfillment in this world is creating things with my hands.

The process goes like this:

1. I have an idea
2. I get excited expanding that idea beyond its original form
3. I figure out how to do it
4. I make it happen

If I do all this and then show it to other people that say: wow that’s cool. I’m in heaven.

It took me a while to realize that, but now I see how this constant, insatiable, thirst to get ideas out of my head and into the world has driven me over the years and shaped most of my interests:

• Creating things with software and hardware
• DYI projects around the house
• Cooking (I make a mean risotto)
• Drawing

Wanting to do these things is just the first step though. As I started all of these, like anything in life, I wasn’t good at it.

Now, being good in something is extremely relative and the pursue of excellence is a life-long journey, but I digress.

What I mean by is: I didn’t have the skills to exercise my ideas in the way I wanted. The result was a pale shadow in comparison to the original form on my mind.

But that couldn’t hold me back. The ideas kept coming, growing and banging from my subconscious like a war drum that pushed me to learn the skills and tools I needed to bring such projects to fruition.

Under this light, technology was just another tool I discovered that could help me craft my mad dreams - a mighty one.

If that sounds too artsy, it’s because it is.

I enjoy the process of working on my projects more than the end result itself.

It’s my form of expression. It’s what makes me feel good. How I have fun.

Isn’t that what art is? I like to think so.

Professional Section

Ok. What do I actually work with?

The answer to that has multiple layers - like an onion (and Shrek).

Even though I graduated in Computer Science and have always enjoyed working writing code, I was never the software developer that just writes code with their headphones on all day. My communication skills have always steered me into client and team-facing roles.

Over the years I fluctuated across different roles and responsibilities: Marketing Analyst, QA Engineer, Business Analyst, Team Lead. Despite my main responsibilities never being to code in neither of these roles, I always found problems I could solve with a little script or tool I could develop or a minor feature on my team’s backlog I could work on.

More details on that should be on my LinkedIn - although it might not be updated.