Igor De Souza

Igor currently works as a Software Engineer in a Data Engineer team. With over 20 years of experience with Java and over 10 years in the Big Data world, Igor had the opportunity to work with Hadoop and its ecosystem right when Hadoop was created. In his spare time, he enjoys playing with Raspberry Pi and is an active member of the Maker community, highly engaged with STEM and CoderDojo. Igor Organizes a Facebook group for Brazilian IT in Ireland with over 12k participants. He is currently working on a pet project where he uses a Led Strip to teach basic concepts of data structure e data streaming.

17 articles

Jul 1, 2026 Igor De Souza

Using the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT with Pi4J Drivers

One of the biggest advantages of the Pi4J Drivers project is the ability to interact with complex hardware through simple and intuitive Java …

Java Beginner Pi4J

Jun 25, 2026 Igor De Souza

Pi4J Drivers: Simplifying Sensor and Hardware Integration in Java

When developing Java applications for Raspberry Pi, Pi4J is one of the most popular libraries for accessing GPIO, I2C, SPI, PWM, and other …

Java Beginner Pi4J

Jun 23, 2026 Igor De Souza

Bringing Raspberry Pi Development to Quarkus with the Quarkus Pi4J Extension

Pi4J has become the standard way to access GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, and other Raspberry Pi interfaces from Java applications. On the other …

Java Beginner Pi4J

May 7, 2026 Igor De Souza

Java is Not the Dark Side: Why Learning Java is Easier Than You Think

Every year on May 4th, fans around the world celebrate Star Wars Day with the iconic phrase “May the 4th be with you.” The following day, …

Java Java Beginner

Apr 3, 2026 Igor De Souza

Does Java Really Use Too Much Memory? Let’s Look at the Facts (JEPs)

Breaking news: Java has been confirmed to consume all available RAM. Developers worldwide shocked. … okay, not really. Happy April 1st. It’s …

Java Student

Mar 27, 2026 Frank Delporte, Igor De Souza

The Java in Education Catalog Now Has a Beautiful Home

A few weeks ago, Igor De Souza shared Bringing Java Closer to Education: A Community-Driven Initiative here on Foojay. It's something we …

Foojay Java Beginner

Feb 27, 2026 Igor De Souza

Gotta Code 'Em All: How Java Evolved Beyond Verbosity – Celebrating 30 Years of Pokémon

Happy 30th Anniversary to Pokémon! 🎉 February 27, 2026 marks exactly 30 years since the original Pokémon Red and Green launched in Japan on …

Java Java Beginner

Feb 21, 2026 Igor De Souza

The Triforce That Slays Legacy Java Myths – Happy 40th Zelda!

Happy 40th Anniversary to The Legend of Zelda! 🎉🗡️ Today, February 21, 2026, marks exactly 40 years since the original game launched in …

Opinion

Feb 2, 2026 Igor De Souza

Bringing Java Closer to Education: A Community-Driven Initiative

Over the past decades, Java has proven itself to be one of the most reliable, versatile, and widely used programming languages in the world. …

Campaigns Java

Dec 8, 2025 Frank Delporte, Igor De Souza

Foojay Podcast #85: Code, Community, and Opportunity: Making Tech Accessible for Everyone

What if the future of Java depends on who we invite to learn it today? In this Foojay Podcast, we're diving into something that affects all …

Conference Java Beginner

Mar 4, 2024 Frank Delporte, Igor De Souza

Foojay Podcast #44: Quarkus Club

Did you know? The Quarkus Clubd initiative started less than a year ago and is already one of the biggest groups in the world dedicated to …

JUGs Podcast

May 15, 2023 Frank Delporte, Igor De Souza

Foojay Podcast #22: When Profession and Fun Overlap

Let's talk to volunteers from different organizations where coding is used to inspire children to become engineers.

Embedded Interviews

Mar 25, 2023 Igor De Souza

Control your Arduino with Spring

Learn how to use Firmata4j to control an Arduino board from a Raspberry Pi board or directly from your computer.

Raspberry Pi Spring

May 19, 2021 Frank Delporte, Igor De Souza

Controlling an LCD Display with Spring and Thymeleaf on the Raspberry Pi

Igor De Souza shares a lot fun and inspirational experiments with Java on Raspberry Pi. Some of those were already shared here on Foojay.io.

Raspberry Pi

Jan 20, 2021 Igor De Souza

Vert.x Example on the Raspberry Pi with a Virtual Potentiometer

Vert.x is open-source reactive polyglot software toolkit from the developers of Eclipse. Let's use it to play with a virtual potentiometer!

Raspberry Pi

Oct 6, 2020 Frank Delporte, Igor De Souza

Electronics & Micronaut Velocity with Raspberry Pi

we present you with another great example of Java on Raspberry Pi. It shows how to create a Micronaut Velocity demo using an 8×8 LED matrix …

Embedded Pi4J

Sep 30, 2020 Frank Delporte, Igor De Souza

Electronics & Quarkus Qute on Raspberry Pi

Igor De Souza has set up an interesting experiment in which he combines a LED number display with the Raspberry Pi and Quarkus.

Pi4J Raspberry Pi