João Magalhães

Portugal

Member since November 8, 2012

João left his position at Microsoft to found Hive Solutions. He loves working in technology, always expressing an explorational passion and going all the way down to the wire. He likes to code in a broad range of languages, always choosing the best, rather than the most convenient tool.

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Portfolio

frontdoorhq.com
Python, JavaScript, jQuery
Viriatum
C, JavaScript
Colony Framework
Python, JavaScript

Experience

Agile Software Development, 8 years
Scrum, 8 years
Java, 8 years
C, 8 years
Python, 6 years
C#, 6 years
JavaScript, 6 years
iOS, 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Windows, MacOSX, Eclipse, XCode, Git, Subversion

The most amazing...

...piece of software I have ever built is a fully fledged, scalable, cross-platform HTTP server written in C.

Employment

Full-Stack Developer
frontdoorhq.com
2012 - PRESENT
- Developed back-end logic for online Point-of-Sale SaaS product using Python with the Colony Framework and its respective MVC stack.
- Developed front-end for same system through extensive usage of JavaScript and jQuery to create productive user experience.
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, jQuery
Software Developer
Viriatum
2011 - PRESENT
- Developed core abstraction technologies for cross platform usage.
- Developed front-end interfaces for management of an HTTP server.
- Created scalable solution for client connections of up to 100K users on high demand.
Technologies: C, JavaScript
Software Developer
Colony Framework
2010 - PRESENT
- Developed core technology for the Hive Solutions-backed open-source project known as the Colony Framework.
- Developed data-migration tool with adapters for multiple datasources.
- Created a modular ETL framework with pluggable adapters and simple declarative transform mappings.
Technologies: Python, JavaScript
Software Developer
Inbound Logistics Integration
2010 - 2013
- Developed stock management tool in C#, integrated with Microsoft Excel.
- Developed custom Excel add-on for addressing a bulk data entry problem directly in Excel.
- Integrated tools with back-end logic, encapsulating remote API with a C# library.
Technologies: C#, Python
Game Developer
Mariachi
2010 - 2010
- Developed key components of a 3D mobile game for iOS and Android.
- Developed and implemented game logic, model importation, and physics engine.
Technologies: C++, Objective-C, OpenGL ES
Software Developer
escolinhas.pt
2010 - 2010
- Created user action-tracking and simple analytics system for escolinhas.pt (social network for children).
- Developed new classroom management features for educational system.
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails
Software Developer
À La Carte
2010 - 2010
- Worked on restaurant- and food-finding application.
- Designed and developed all ETL components for a food indexing and search system using Python.
- Created software for retrieval of information from wide array of heterogeneous data sources.
Technologies: Python, HTML/XML, MySQL
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft
2007 - 2008
- Worked in product configuration solutions for the Dynamics AX, improving and debugging existing features.
- Created a preview version of the "next" product configuration solutions in C#, performance orientation.
- Used X++ and other custom work in various parts of Dynamics AX.
Technologies: C#, X++

Experience

Frontdoor (Development)
An online POS service with a very UI/UX centric approach.
Colony Framework (Development)
http://getcolony.com
A modular Python framework aimed at creating flexible components (plugins) and promoting runtime reusability.
Viriatum HTTP Server (Development)
http://github.com/hivesolutions/viriatum
A scalable, cross-platform, easy-to-configure HTTP Server.
Cameria Mobile (Development)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cameria/id578750599
Mobile IP camera solution for iOS.
Quorum Framework (Development)
https://github.com/hivesolutions/flask_quorum
Set of extension settings for the Python Flask Framework.
UXF Framework (Development)
https://github.com/hivesolutions/uxf
Client-side UI JavaScript framework with simplified integration for the Colony Framework.
Mantium / Automium (Development)
https://github.com/hivesolutions/mantium
Web-based build automation solution that uses imperative-based Python script files for defining automation.

Skills

Languages
Python, Java, Objective-C, C, JavaScript, SQL, CSS3, HTML5, C++, C#, Lua, VB.NET, Ruby
Frameworks
Flask, Colony Framework, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Django
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, OpenGL ES, OpenGL, Facebook API, Node.js
Tools
Git, Xcode, Eclipse IDE, Subversion (SVN), Vim Text Editor, Sublime Text
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Software Development
Platforms
iOS, Linux, Windows, Heroku, Mac OS, Android, BSD, AWS EC2, Oracle
Storage
Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, AWS S3
Other
SSH

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Polytechnic University of Madrid) - Madrid, Spain
2006 - 2007
Master's degree in Computer Science
Universidade do Porto (University of Porto) - Porto, Portugal
2002 - 2007

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