Benedito Manoel Da Silva Junior, known as Bendev Junior (Poconé, October 20, 1998), is an empreendedor Programmerand brazilian digital influencer. ^[1]

Bendev was born in Poconé, a municipality located in the state of Mato Grosso, in the year 1998, where he also grew up. Child, he was already interested in Games and Technology, in addition to curiosity about the functioning of equipment, risking to assemble and disassemble the ones available in his home.

He started his career asmechanic, but it was in the technological universe that he found himself.

In2013, even without experience, received an invitation to be a partner in a software development company, as developer Java ^[1][2], which, in the beginning, was called Princ.

With the creation of this enterprise and the expansion of his skills, Bendev had contact with the story of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who became his greatest inspirations, and of those who follow the methodologies.

At Princ Desenvolvimento, with its partners, it created an system of inventory control, which was later sold, in 2014.

In 2015, at 17, Bendev wanted to go further.

He got together with a friend who had common interests and, together, they opened their second business: Line Up, which offered the support and development service, being the only developer in the company.^[3].

He founded Bendev Studios, in 2018, and worked as a Full-stack Programmer with a focus on front-end at Zup Innovation, from Minas Gerais, acquired by the Itaú groupin 2019^[4], reference in digital transformation.

He was cited as the biggest influencer in his area in Mato Grosso^{[1][2][3][5][6]},in 2021. And on one of the UOL portals, where he also reported "A história da programação como nunca contada antes" ^[8].

During the Covid-19 pandemic, it stood out with the creation of digital content to support entrepreneurs to continue with their business in a healthy way through technology, highlighting the main changes in ventures during the moment.^{[9][10][11][11][13]},and warned about the main tricks used by criminals on famous internet portals ^{[14][15][16][17][18]}.

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