Senior software engineer, technology enthusiast

I’m Thomas Cabral, a senior software engineer and entrepreneur based in Florida. I’m the founder and CEO of FlowState Dev, where we are passionate about using technology to empower people and businesses to reach their full potential.

Go Is the Best Language for Web Services — And Here's the Nuance

I have written production code in Kotlin, Typescript/Javascript, Java, Scala, Python, Go, C# and more. I have built metering systems in C# and Go and am constantly reminded of why I always pick up Go every time when given the choice. After years of working across these ecosystems, I keep coming back to the same conclusion: Go is the best language ...

Prompt Engineering isn't Engineering

A recent conversation with a colleague highlighted a fundamental disconnect in how we discuss and market artificial intelligence capabilities. When exploring how large language models (LLMs) actually function, they expressed frustration with the gap between marketing promises and technical reality—drawing a pointed comparison to Tesla's self-drivin...

Boosting Code Readability with Scala's For Comprehension

Introduction At its core, for comprehension is a syntactic construct that allows you to write a sequence of expressions that are executed in a loop. The loop iterates over some collection, generating a value on each iteration, and applies some operations to that value. The result is a new collection that is created by combining the values generate...

Flask REST API: The Easiest Way to Build RESTful Web Services

Flask is a popular micro web framework for Python that makes it easy to build small web services, including REST APIs. REST APIs are web services that use the REST architectural style, which provides a standardized way of accessing and manipulating data over the web. Here is an example of a Flask app that uses SQLAlchemy, an object-relational mapp...

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    FlowState Dev
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    CEO
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  2. Company
    RMS
    Role
    Senior Software Engineer
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  3. Company
    AutoLoop
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    Software Engineer
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