About me
I started to code in middle school with my Texas Instruments 84 calculator, back in 2004.
I didn't know what I was doing, it was mostly trial and error, trying to print something on the screen.
My life changed when I discovered the TI-Basic Programming Guide (yes, the documentation).
Since then, and a degree later, I've been doing a bit of everything! I can code in several languages, for multiple platforms, web apps, mobile games, desktop/mobile interactive apps, interactive solutions with Arduino, browser extensions, web with PHP, Laravel, Javascript,
Stats
Since early age I'm passionate about statistics, being spreadsheets one of my hobbies.
Here you have some cool stats about me. (real time up to date)
On GitHub, I was starred 168 times, and forked 66, all this spread over 52 public repos and 13 gists.
I belong to 8 organizations.
I have 9055 reputation points on StackOverflow, 8 gold badges, 58 silver and 63 bronze. Actually, I was there some minutes ago.
I drove 235 167 km,
spending a total of 3 793 hours driving, almost 1.32% of my life.
I flew 113 215 km in 28 flights,
visiting 15 different countries, 4 continents, 13 islands, both hemispheres.
While living most of my time in Portugal, exactly 11 755 days,
I was 262 days abroad, nearly 2.18% of my life, between working and traveling.
Until now, I spent 35.07% of my life sleeping, 7.88% eating, 7.05% working, 7.94% studying, 5.46% exercising, 1.39% commuting and 1.02% coding on my free time.
Timeline
Animais de Rua Volunteer
Animais de Rua is a non profit organization which rescue animals in the streets. They were in need of a platform to manage every process related to the animal collecting and treatment. I was glad I could help, I created their back office from scratch using
Later on I end up also creating their website, which is fed with data from the back office. The website is also a webapp, since I had the time, I created everything from scratch with no frameworks, just
I've been collaborating with them since then, there's always some fixes and adjustments to make the platform better.
Gema Digital
By working at GEMA I've been developing with many technologies, in many places, mostly for Portugal, but also Greece and Brazil, with projects all around the world.
I've been doing mostly
Some installations you may heard about:
- World of Wine (Oporto, PT)
- Pelé Museum (So Paulo, Brasil)
- World of discoveries (Oporto, PT)
- Chocolate Factory (Viana do Castelo, PT)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup (Turkey)
- Filda '13 & '14 (Angola)
Some of the most challenging projects:
- Unicredit UEFA Champions League Final (Augmented reality Android app)
- Benfica Tours (Augmented reality tour around the stadium)
- Rock In Rio '14 - Santa Casa (Mobile game)
- Filda - Total / Esso / Chevron / Viv / Sonangol / Total / Zap (Mobile apps and games)
- Penalty Quiz (iOS/Android game)
- Footy Quiz (iOS/Android game)
- XPlora (Augmented reality mobile app)
- OneCore (Node JS app, with an webapp to control devices on Gema installations)
- MOSS (Java multiplayer socket server)
- Comédia à la Carte (Interactive webapp for their shows)
Among many others like Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira, Embratur, Pepsi, Angolauto, Amazonas, Seat, Nespresso and many GEMA own projects.
Backpack for Laravel
Backpack for
There's a great community around this project and I'm glad to be part of the organization and contribute with code and ideas. You can find it at github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD.
Github
I've been contributing on Github for some open source projects for several years, everytime I use some package lacking a feature or having a bug, I tend to open a Pull Request to fix that.
The Arctic Code Vault purpose is to conserve the best open-source projects for future generations by storing them in an archive and save it for a thousand years in a vault located in Svalbard, Norway.
Some of my contributions led me to the Arctic Code Vault Contributor badge. Maybe you know some of the projects I've contributed too;
Among others.BrainFck Compiler
I love coding challenges, and I've done plenty of them on websites like hackerrank, codesignal and codecademy. The most exciting for me are
One of these challenges was to create a ><+-.,[]
. The language itself is crazy difficult, creating a compiler for it was even harder.
Stackoverflow - First 100 answer
Every developer knows Stack Overflow, it's the biggest question and answer site for developers. I started to post answers to old unanswered questions on the site and soon the thrill of getting positive feedback for my contributions led me to contribute more and more.
Nowadays I have almost 200 answers and a lot of points and badges on the site.
Better Image Viewer
Better Image Viewer was a Google Chrome Extension made with plain
The extension had 200k downloads and a peak of 30k daily users. I maintained the extension for some years until I sold it to an Israeli company.
Web Developer Freelancer
I've been working as a freelancer for a long time, I've made some
The biggest challenge was an Ad management system for Tabaqueira, the biggest Portuguese tobacco company, it was a
Creative Bitbox
This was my first job, I was mainly a web developer and learned more in a few months than I could expect. I learned
I've collaborated on a few projects, but I was able to achieve many others on my own, B-Around Map, was probably the biggest challenge I had, it's a library that allows to add a map module to a page (a Google Maps with its own layout).
I was also the main developer for other projects, Creative Bitbox website using
TI 84 3D Engine
I started to code on TI 84 calculator back in 2005, at that time I was far to know one day I would create a whole
This was one of the most challenging things I've done in my life. Ti 84 graphics are basic, it's a screen of 96×64 pixels, 24Kb RAM and 480Kb ROM, not to mention the language,
With these specs, I was able to create an engine to, first, create
I spent countless hours, mostly while going back home on weekends after university.
University
I'm graduated as a Graphic Computation Engineer on Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo. I proudly got the Ministry of Education Merit Award in 2011, for finishing with the highest average of the institution that year.
I learned a lot during these 3 years, some of my projects were a queue waiting simulation, in
Some of the most important concepts in my graduation were;
- Algorithms and data structures
- Mathematics for graphic computation
- 3D Programming
- Databases
- Networks
- Graphic Computation
- 3D Modeling
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
Firefox Mac OS Theme
Firefox 3.5 Mac OS theme was during several months, in the top 5 most used Firefox themes in the world, with almost 2M downloads, and 150k daily users. At this time, I didn't know how to code, so this theme was created, once again, mostly trial error.
I started to create the theme for myself because I liked customization, I was used to create themes for my Nokia phones (I used paint to draw the images btw).
One day I decided to publish the theme, and boom, people started to use it, a lot, I even had a chinese person asking me to create special version of the theme with bigger font size due to the chinese characters.
TI 84
This was the very beginning of my developer career, I was in middle school when I started to type some instructions on my TI 84 calculator. At that time I didn't even know I was programming and it was mostly trial and error.
Later on I started to acknowledge more and more and I started to code simple scripts to solve the daily new subjects in math classes. Like second degree equations formula, or trigonometric formulas to solve angles and triangle side sizes.
It was, above everything, much fun, the thrill of feeling I could handle the computational power of the calculator in my favor to produce the data I need.
I was born 616 808 700 seconds after UNIX Epoch,
it's been a great journey of 000 000 000 seconds since then.