Laravel&Vue | Python | DevOps | Rust

Passionate Laravel Enthusiast
Inclined towards tinkering and exploring new concepts and new ways of doing things ✨
Experienced in Frontend, Backend, and Hybrid Mobile Development, DevOps, and Security 🌍
Contributor to open-source projects 🐧
Playing with Rust 🦀

Top Skills

• Laravel & Nuxt (Vue)
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Rust

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Experiences

TLScontact

• Title: Fullstack Developer
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal · Remote
• Duration: Oct 2022 - Present
• Description:
  • Independently upgraded live high-volume payment processing application from Lumen to Laravel.
  • Implemented integrations with more than 10 payment gateways, including Globalpay, HSBC, PayPal, Easypay.ua…
  • Implemented hundreds of Unit and Feature tests contributing to start testing the existing code base.
  • Implemented multiple E2E tests with Cypress contributing to the beginning of an automated test suite for the QA team.
  • Converted multiple core features of live project to JSON REST API improving performance and scalability.
  • Documented existing APIs with Swagger.
  • Applied SOLID principles to refactor legacy code, increasing the performance and the maintainability.
  • Implemented Horizontal Pod Autoscalling on Kubernetes Cluster.
  • Architected DDD and CQRS green field project using C4 model.
  • Conceptualized a change across the PostgreSQL database structure, introducing indexes, stored procedures, and views resulting in doubling performance in some cases.
  • Led multiple Technical Refinement/Planning sessions.
  • Managed incidents communicating directly with stakeholders.
  • Improved the quality of technical tickets with the tech team.
• Skills:
  • Laravel
  • PEST/phpunit
  • JSON REST APIs
  • Kubernetes
  • PostgreSQL

Boost IT

• Title: Software Development Consultant
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal · Remote
• Duration: Oct 2022 - Present
• Description: Consultant for TLScontact.

Worten Portugal

• Title: Fullstack Developer
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Carnaxide, Lisbon, Portugal · Hybrid
• Duration: Jul 2020 - Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos
• Description:
  • Implemented multiple pipelines in a Laravel ETL project writing data from Cassandra/OracleSQL/MSSQL/MySql to Kafka topics.
  • Implemented JSON REST APIs serving data to millions of users.
  • Documented existing APIs with Swagger.
  • Developed UIs for serving APIs using Vue Options API.
  • Improved developer’s development environments by adding Docker/Laravel Sail.
  • Implemented multiple CI/CD pipelines on GitLab.
  • Contributed to existing IAC in AWS using Terraform.
  • Analyzed GoLang structural parts of the company’s internal code structure
  • Automated repetitive tasks with Shell script and Laravel Stubs
• Skills:
  • Laravel
  • REST APIs
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Cassandra / Microsoft SQL Server / OracleSQL / MySQL
  • Docker
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Apache Kafka

NBCC Consulting

• Title: Software Development Consultant
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Lisbon, Portugal
• Duration: Jul 2020 - Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos
• Description: Consultant for Worten Portugal.

Futureway

• Title: Full Stack Developer
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Setúbal Area, Portugal
• Duration: Oct 2019 - Jul 2020 · 10 mos
• Description:
  • Managed tens of existing PHP applications adding improvements weekly.
  • Developed mobile applications with Ionic Framework.
  • Implemented Frontend using Bootstrap 4.
  • Created an internal reusable component library for Angular components.
  • Implemented key features that serve all company products.
  • Implemented integrations with popular APIs
    • Google Maps
    • toconline - PT financial management system
• Skills:
  • Angular
  • PHP
  • Ionic Framework
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript

Affinity Portugal

• Title: Software Development Consultant
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Lisbon Area, Portugal
• Duration: Mar 2019 - Aug 2019 · 6 mos
• Description: Consultant for Caixa Geral de Depósitos.
• Skills:
  • Agile Application Development
  • Figma (Software)
  • Angular
  • Ionic Framework

CAIXA GERAL DE DEPOSITOS, S.A.

• Title: Mobile Developer
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Lisbon Area, Portugal
• Duration: Mar 2019 - Jun 2019 · 4 mos
• Description:
  • Implemented Frontend components in multiple screens in the app Caixadireta.
  • Collaborating directly with the Product Owner and Designer in a SCRUM environment
• Skills:
  • Agile Application Development
  • Figma (Software)
  • Angular
  • Ionic Framework

SPMS, EPE - Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde

• Title: Web Developer
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Lisboa e Região, Portugal
• Duration: Jul 2018 - Nov 2018 · 5 mos
• Description:
  • Managed Incident Support for the RNCCI application.
  • Developed multiple improvements in the app to help Public Health Care professionals.
  • Automated repetitive tasks using Javascript contribuiting to an increase in 50% in the solved issues for each SRE.
• Skills:
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript

Winning Scientific Management

• Title: Software Development Consultant
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Lisbon Area, Portugal
• Duration: Jul 2018 - Nov 2018 · 5 mos
• Description: Consultant for SPMS.
• Skills:
  • jQuery
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript

Aloha - Soluções Informaticas, Lda.

• Title: Frontend Developer
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Nov 2017 - Jul 2018 · 9 mos
• Description:
  • Implemented close to 10 websites with contact forms using jQuery and PHP
  • Colaborated with Backend developer and Designer
• Skills:
  • jQuery
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript

Futureway

• Title: Internship - Web Developer
• Employment Type: Internship
• Location: Mar 2017 - Jul 2017 · 5 mos
• Description:
  • Final Project
    • Used the Ionic Framework to create a mobile application so users could monitor their own IoT system.
    • Used C++ to create a simple yet functional IoT system using an Arduino-based board.
• Skills:
  • Angular
  • PHP
  • Ionic Framework
  • Arduino
  • C++

Condomínio Activo - Administração e Gestão de Condomínios, Unipessoal Lda

• Title: Internship - C# Developer
• Employment Type: Internship
• Location: Mar 2015 - Jun 2015 · 4 mos
• Description:
  • Final project
    • Used C# to make a desktop application that manages the maintenance of client buildings by printing a report.
      • The application is used by the maintenance technicians when they leave HQ to perform any maintenance-related service.
• Skills:
  • C#
  • .NET Framework
  • WFA
  • MySQL

Education

Universidade Aberta

• Degree: Licentiate degree, Software Engineering
• Graduation Year: 2019
• Status: Unfinished

Setúbal School of Technology Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal

• Degree: Web Programming, Devices and Mobile Applications
• Graduation Year: 2015

Escola Secundária Dom Manuel Martins

• Degree: Técnico, Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos
• Year: 2013

Certifications

Netforce - IEFP - Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional

• Title: CCP - Certificado de Competências Pedagógicas (Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude)
• Credential ID: F743941/2023
• Issued Date: Jul 2023

Udemy

• Title: Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django
• Issued Date: Feb 2021
• Credential ID: UC-c62dc247-4d59-47ad-be7c-edc34c07a764

Udemy

• Title: Python Coding MADE EASY: A Python Coding Course in Python 3
• Issued Date: Feb 2021
• Credential ID: UC-71b1c1c4-38a3-4327-be54-f47030805b82

Udemy

• Title: Web Scraping and API Fundamentals in Python
• Issued Date: Feb 2021
• Credential ID: UC-8093f510-1c5d-4ede-b986-eda06d59fd24

Udemy

• Title: Go: The Complete Developer’s Guide (Golang)
• Issued Date: Jan 2021
• Credential ID: UC-adee2023-4175-49cb-b118-cf6112916b7a

Udemy

• Title: Python for Beginners: Learn Python Programming (Python 3)
• Issued Date: Jan 2021
• Credential ID: UC-818f60c9-9ef1-4319-a05e-b38e4ba49662

Udemy

• Title: Angular Essentials (Angular 2+ with TypeScript)
• Issued Date: Jul 2019
• Credential ID: UC-56B6QHTC

Udemy

• Title: Using MySQL Databases With Python
• Credential ID: UC-8436249d-9f29-4c2a-ae22-90c75b5e155e

Volunteering

Banco Alimentar Contra a Fome

• Role: Voluntary
• Duration: Dec 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo
• Cause: Poverty Alleviation

Scouts - Corpo Nacional de Escutas (CNE) - Agrupamento 1359 - Sado

• Role: Scout Sub-Group Leader
• Duration: Sep 2007 - Sep 2017 · 10 yrs 1 mo
• Cause: Environment

Languages

• Portuguese: 🇵🇹 Native or bilingual proficiency
• English: 🇬🇧 Full professional proficiency
• Spanish: 🇪🇸 Professional working proficiency
• French: 🇫🇷 Limited working proficiency