Full-stack web developer, eager to find greater challenges, dutiful with deadlines and projects, striving to dominate new tech skills able to take his craft to the next level without taking time from the company. I aim to always create a good team environment to boost its effectiveness and bonds.
Experienced solving unforeseen situations during big scope projects, designing new initiatives and solutions in order to cope with future needs. Focused on understanding clients' needs to better display them inside the projects without impacting the timing allocated by the company to deliver the project release.
Summary: My time at SoBold was brief but informative. We have designed and implemented a bespoke solution in the form of a custom plugin, always keeping in mind the scalability and flexibility required by a growing client. This relatively short exercise cemented my approach to greenhouse projects.
Challenges: Processes optimisation, Third-party APIs, WordPress best practices and Cypress.
Summary: During my time at Den Creative, I covered new sectors such as flower shops, architecture magazines & job sites, hardware for boutiques, and mobile kitchen rentals among others. Working closely with designers and product owners, we reached the extra mile, always delivering our best value to the clients, whether their budgets were bigger or humbler. Our solutions relied on open-sourced tools, such as WordPress.
Challenges: Third-party APIs, DevOps, WordPress best practices and Cypress.
Summary: At HWG, I obtained a deeper insight into continuous integration and procedures, as I worked on sectors that were new for me. It was a brief but inspiring period that offered an interesting learning curve.
Challenges: Third-party APIs, importing XML data into WordPress’ ecosystem, MailChimp and Hubspot.
Summary: I aimed to implement a vision through my company during this period. Fast and responsive websites in line with the W3C guidelines, enabling visitors to easily access your brand, stimulating the business to reach its goals. Most developers focus only on coding, but I wanted to prove that solid coding fits also with beautifully crafted websites, if you have the right approach. Implementing marketing strategies early into the development is key to harmonizing this. My previous experience in dozens of projects gave me insight into the user journey and how to improve the overall web experience, either desktop or mobile. Incorporating product management and usability tests, along with email campaign tags into my development planning, added sound value to my client’s projects.
Summary: Jago Partners left a mark on me as a professional in several good senses. I worked on projects from exclusive firms such as McLaren Automotive, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, and SYBAss. Some of the tasks in this position required me to take a leading or management role.
Challenges: Development team lead, analysis, UX design, graphic design, development (CSS3, jQuery, HTML5, MySQL and PHP), bespoke WordPress development (including themes and plugins), hosting management (Plesk based dedicated server), SEO (Google Analytics & Google Webmaster Tools), NAS & cloud backup management, maintenance & troubleshooting of previous projects and email marketing.
Summary: Live Website analysis, data extraction and template merging.
Challenges: Troubleshooting, ASSET migration (JSP to JSF: Setting up a development environment, custom tags development, PoC coding for diverse scoped TAD and TD coding).
Challenges: Shell Script - AWK unit tests, Java development, database training.
Exploitation environment for a small or medium store: Till functions, data savings and building of statistics charts. All SW lifecycle (analysis, design and development): Diagrams and prototypes, MS SQL Server and C#.
High-end professional education covering the whole lifecycle of software projects, along with diverse side skills as MS Office and basic graphic design.
Challenges: Photoshop-to-code of around ten ad-hoc solutions, covering topics such blogs, news systems, tasks planning-report system, multimedia advertisements and automatic email alerts.
Challenges: Custom CMS from scratch, with sections for different user roles.
Low-Mid level of professional education that covers both Software and Hardware aspects.
While not working I try to make room for looking after myself, keeping the thirds rule (a day's third for sleeping, a third for working and a third for your personal life) although it is hard to do.
I enjoy board games, especially Warhammer 40,000, which is a well-rounded hobby that includes creative aspects when assembling and painting the models, social aspects when playing with other people, and optimisation/competitive aspects when attending tournaments.
I try to be at BBQs and parks when the sun is out and the weather is warm.
If not doing any of the previous, I can probably be found gaming (PC), watching movies or TV shows and reading.
