Manoel Carlos Ramon is a software and hardware engineer that works for different companies including Intel, Google and Amazon. He started learning software programming when he was 11 years old, using a TK-85—an 8-bit computer based on a Z80 processor with only 16KB of RAM. His passion for programming and understanding computers started with watching Bit & Bytes, a Canadian TV series that aired on TV Cultura, a Brazilian public TV network. A few years later, Manoel created his first pirate FM transmitter that, instead of music, transmitted programs written in Basic to exchange software saved on cassette tapes with his friends via FM radio. He created his first commercial software in 1986, at age 12. This was software for storage control, written in DbaseII and running on a CP500/M80 computer. He learned and programmed in Z80 Assembler using his first MSX computer in 1988. Later he bought an IBM PC XT with an Intel 8080 processor, on which he created the first Brazilian software able to compute with precision the lux intensity of irregular surfaces based on photometric curves, written in Turbo C. Manoel earned a BsSc in electric engineering in 1996, graduating with honors. He has been working in research and development of mobile devices and tablets since graduation. Manoel contributed to porting the first Java virtual machine fully certified by Sun Microsystems in Motorola phones. He has also worked with Linux kernel and device drivers, J2ME, Android NDK/SDK/ADK, audio path, power management, and modem 2G/3G/4G/5G integration, including the first tablet with an LTE modem released in South America.
Manoel has worked on several projects in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He migrated to the United States in 2011 and he is currently part of Google LLC and currently working with event driven microservices, AI and embedded system. On his spare time he loves to spend time with Emily, his granddaughter.
