CTO
2011 - 2016Seedrs- Spearheaded the development team as its first hire, with the goal of building the initial MVP at a time when equity crowdfunding was an entirely new concept.
- Hired and managed the tech team after the initial product launch. The team grew to twelve developers organized into four sub-teams.
- Expanded the core product to handle new business cases, such as new payment methods, anti-fraud measures, investing in funds, investing in convertible equity rounds, and multiple currency support.
- Designed and developed tech solutions to strict regulatory and financial requirements, including a platform to reconcile financial operations and client funds daily.
- Evolved my own focus from strictly coding to Scrum master and product owner.
- Launched and managed an internal tool for staff members to review and approve the investment campaigns.
- Worked in close collaboration with other execs at the company.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Sphinx, Haml, Compass, Susy, AWS, Google API, Stripe, Twilio, RSpec, Cucumber, Phantom.js, Wkhtmltopdf, Jekyll, jQuery, Ember.js, MongoDB, Intercom, SalesforceCo-founder, Developer
2008 - 2011Byclosure- Bootstrapped the company with no initial investment by taking consulting projects with my two partners.
- Hired and coached a team that grew to four developers.
- Took active part in the implementation of the projects, ranging from simple admin interfaces to topical social networks and a railway passenger information system.
- Worked on a project for the Andalusian Autonomous Government, solving the infamous JAR class loading dependency hell they had.
- Learned how to sell projects to customers and sold a few of the most well-paid projects, including a remote project for the United Arab Emirates.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, GWT, jQuery, Cordova, RSpec, Cucumber, J2EEWeb Developer
2006 - 2008VILT- Created a web framework based on J2EE and Vignette at a major banking institution in Spain.
- Implemented a Vignette-based ECM back-end solution and public site front-end using jQuery, supporting old browsers--such as IE6--at a large chemicals company.
- Provided interim sysadmin services to the internal team, including VoIP and QoS setup, and VPN between the Lisbon and Madrid offices.
- Investigated the VoIP space for a potential new area of business, including a one-week hands-on crash course on the VoIP B2B market.
- Solved a big performance problem in a SWAT-like four-day intervention for a big telco in Morocco. The company had their website down for a few weeks, having called several experts before. With my findings and recommendations, they were able to finally recover it.
Technologies: J2EE, Vignette, jquery, Selenium, Maven, WebLogic
Duarte Henriques
Software Developer in Lisbon, Portugal
Member since December 23, 2016
Duarte is a senior developer with over ten years experience building full-stack web applications. He has the experience and skills to quickly integrate an existing team and project and be productive from Day One. A perfectionist at heart, he strives to be lean and Agile.
Duarte is now available for hire
Experience
- Ruby, 9 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR), 9 years
- Git, 9 years
- Agile, 8 years
- Automated Testing, 8 years
- jQuery, 8 years
- React, 1 year
- Elasticsearch, 1 year
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Mac, Atom, Git, Chrome dev tools
The most amazing...
...project I've helped create is the leading European equity crowdfunding platform, with over $100M invested in 150+ deals.
Employment
Experience
- Seedrs (Development)https://www.seedrs.com/
Equity crowdfunding platform for investing in startups and later-stage businesses throughout Europe.
- Thales APIS (via Byclosure) (Development)
Built the interface for Thales Advanced Passenger Information System. The front-end was built in GWT using the latest HTML5 APIs on top of a purpose-built Chrome browser. Java was used on the back-end. The code was extensively covered with unit and end to end tests.
- Pidgin-libnotify (Development)http://gaim-libnotify.sourceforge.net/
Built an open source plugin for pidgin IM client to display message notifications for GTK-based desktops. The project was active from 2005 to 2008, with thirteen releases.
Technologies used: C, GTK+ - Pidgin (Development)https://pidgin.im/
I was the Portuguese translator for Pidgin at a time when the project was still called Gaim.
Technologies used: GNU gettext
Skills
Languages
Ruby, ECMAScript (ES6), CSS, HTML, Java, HTML5, JavaScript, C, Python, C#, SQLFrameworks
Django REST Framework, Capybara, Ruby on Rails (RoR), React Native, GWT, Compass, DjangoLibraries/APIs
Stripe API, jQuery, Lodash, ReactTools
wkhtmltopdf, Cucumber, RSpec, GitParadigms
Automated Testing, Agile, Test-driven Development (TDD), ScrumPlatforms
LinuxStorage
AWS S3, Sphinx Search Engine, MySQL, Memcached, PostgreSQL, ElasticsearchOther
Business Models
Education
- Master's equivalent degree in Computer Engineering2001 - 2006Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon, Portugal
