Bruno Damacena

Experience

Education

Skills

Hobbies

Rubik's Cube

Since December 2016, the Rubik's Cube has been one of my favorites hobbies. I always liked challenges and things that allow me to overcome myself, so the cube was an instant addiction to me. I looked up a method to solve it and learned it in one day. Since then, I've been collecting and learning to solve several different models of the puzzle. You can check out my profile at the World Cube Association, the official worldwide organization and regulator of Rubik's Cube competitions.

Music

Since childhood, music has been a great passion. Influenced by my parents, my interest in learning to play instruments for fun arose. Since then, I've been self-taught to play several different instruments. I play the guitar, bass, ukulele, cavaquinho. I'm also passionate about percussion, and I play the drums, which is my favorite instrument to jam. I also love the Samba School percussion instruments, and I play almost all of them to some degree.

Books

I was taught to read by my mom at age 4. Since then, I started to read a lot of comic books, starting with a Brazilian classic Turma da Mônica (Monica's Gang), by Maurício de Souza. I remember the first book that I read was The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Today, my favorite books are Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Movies

Movies and television shows are also a passion for me. I'm always watching something in my spare time. My favorite genres are drama, dystopia, and science fiction. My favorite movies are Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future, The Godfather, and The Breakfast Club. My favorite TV shows are Black Mirror, Lost, Sons of Anarchy, and Breaking Bad.

Games

Another huge hobby for me is gaming, in a lot of different media. I love role-playing games, so I'm always playing Dungeons & Dragons with my friends. I also love tabletop games, Catan being my favorite one. And I grew up a Nintendo fan since the Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Star Wars Episode 1: Racer. My favorite genres of video games are RPGs, Puzzles, and Roguelikes, and my favorite games are Breath of the Wild, Portal 2, Undertale, Disco Elysium, Fallout: New Vegas, Bioshock, Super Mario Odyssey, The Talos Principle, Dead Cells, Papers Please, and Hades. You can add me on Steam and on Nintendo Switch.

Rubik's Cube

Since December 2016, the Rubik's Cube has been one of my favorites hobbies. I always liked challenges and things that allow me to overcome myself, so the cube was an instant addiction to me. I looked up a method to solve it and learned it in one day. Since then, I've been collecting and learning to solve several different models of the puzzle. You can check out my profile at the World Cube Association, the official worldwide organization and regulator of Rubik's Cube competitions.

Music

Since childhood, music has been a great passion. Influenced by my parents, my interest in learning to play instruments for fun arose. Since then, I've been self-taught to play several different instruments. I play the guitar, bass, ukulele, cavaquinho. I'm also passionate about percussion, and I play the drums, which is my favorite instrument to jam. I also love the Samba School percussion instruments, and I play almost all of them to some degree.

Books

I was taught to read by my mom at age 4. Since then, I started to read a lot of comic books, starting with a Brazilian classic Turma da Mônica (Monica's Gang), by Maurício de Souza. I remember the first book that I read was The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Today, my favorite books are Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Movies

Movies and television shows are also a passion for me. I'm always watching something in my spare time. My favorite genres are drama, dystopia, and science fiction. My favorite movies are Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future, The Godfather, and The Breakfast Club. My favorite TV shows are Black Mirror, Lost, Sons of Anarchy, and Breaking Bad.

Games

Another huge hobby for me is gaming, in a lot of different media. I love role-playing games, so I'm always playing Dungeons & Dragons with my friends. I also love tabletop games, Catan being my favorite one. And I grew up a Nintendo fan since the Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Star Wars Episode 1: Racer. My favorite genres of video games are RPGs and Puzzles, and my favorite games are Breath of the Wild, Portal 2, Undertale, Skyrim, Super Mario Odyssey, Celeste, The Talos Principle, Dark Souls, and The Witness. You can add me on Steam and on Nintendo Switch.

Projects

• Synthesis
  Final Project of the subject Digital Games, done with Ramon Griffo. Synthesis is a First-Person Cyberpunk Puzzle game developed with Unity.
• SmallOO
  Final Project of the subject Programming Languages. The project consists of the development of an interpreter for an Object-Oriented programming language made by the professor, called SmallOO.
• Catapults - Medieval war where you actually control a Ballista
  Final Project of the subject Computer Graphics. Catapults is a game developed in C language using the OpenGL framework.
• Rubik's Cube
  Final Project of the subject Operations Research, done with Ramon Griffo. The project consists of implementing heuristics to solve the Rubik's Cube.
• Dark Side of the Moon - OpenGL
  Personal project to study OpenGL syntax by drawing the cover of the Dark Side of the Moon album using only OpenGL polygons.
• The Knapsack Problem
  Algorithm and Data Structures Practical Work to study and understand Programming Paradigms and NP-Complete problems by implementing heuristic and brute-force algorithms to solve The Knapsack Problem.