About me

Hello, I'm Henry!

I've been interested in computers and breaking OS installs since early in my life.

Before computers, I got hooked on electronics in general, and started fooling around with broken radios and alarm clocks. When my grandmother granted me access to her computer, a 386SX at the time, I was absolutely fascinated.

My first computer came in the form of a custom-built (at a local shop) Texas Instruments 486DX2-66 loaded with 4MB of EDO memory, a 200(-and-change)MB Western Digital HDD, and a Trident TD9440 graphics card.

Over the years that thing was alive I maxed out the RAM on that board to 16MB, added a SoundBlaster 16 CT2740, a USRobotics 33,6k faxmodem, a CD-ROM drive and a whole megabyte of VRAM to the TD9440, bringing it to the incredible figure of... 2MB.

During my school days I had exceptionally good grades on everything... except for maths.
I failed maths for about 5 years, and that eventually led me to drop out of school, on 7th grade.

I started working pretty early. At first fixing computers by myself for family, friends and acquaintances.
Then, around 2006, along with my friend Otavio, I co-founded a branding/web development/graphic design studio.

Otavio took care of all the important (a.k.a. creative) stuff, while I handled the web side of things.
Even tough that business didn't work out in the end, I learned a lot from it.

After closing up shop, I found a job at an IT company. They provided regular walk-in and contract repair services, but also handled warranty services for wide variety of computer manufacturers. The owner of that company also had a majority stake of a local ISP.

I started work there fixing computers, and eventually moved into their business services department, which handled IT for stores and supermarket chains, government contracts and some other stuff.

As I had amassed good server knowledge while handling hosting and e-mails for my own company, I was assigned to most network and server tickets, handling both deployments and maintenance.

A while later, I started also working for that ISP my former boss owned part of, also handling servers and networks. ^{I also made their website!}

Towards the end of my time there, some people came aboard our team and we ended up not really getting along. We were having very heated arguments.
A nice job offer came by. Head of IT for an HVAC company. So, I left both companies.
That offer ended up not materializing.

Mid-2014, after a couple of months on the hunt, I found a new position as the datacenter manager at Websul, a telco in southern Brazil.
Back in 2017, our former network manager decided to retire from technology, so I took on his role as well. I held both positions until the company sold-off their broadband business unit, in early 2023.

My hobbies include tinkering with old cars, flight sims and retro technology.

I'm also a music fan. I collect vinyl records and CDs.

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