Software Developer in Berlin, Germany

2008 - 2015. Pedro co-founded Hacklab/, a Brazilian company with high ethical values and an enriching open form of partnership, that employed up to 23 developers and designers. It is one of the most respected WordPress development companies in the country, and have worked on more than 70 WordPress projects, ranging from small personal sites to huge multi-sites with caching, geo-referenced posts, mobile apps, events agendas, and more. Also during that time, he helped organize WordCamps and WP Hacker Days in Brazil. Contributed as developer and director of the company for eight years until relocation to Germany.

2009-2011. MOC Brazil (Oncology Online Manual) site is an online version of a book. Pedro managed the project and developed a system that parses XML files generated by Adobe InDesign, and updates the whole site every year with the same files used to print the paper version.

2008 - 2015. Catraca Livre is one of the most visited independent WordPress websites in Brazil. At the beginning of 2015, it reached the mark of 50 million visitors per month. Pedro began contributing as a freelancer and later on transitioned the project to Hacklab/. The project initiated the development of many plugins published in the public WordPress repository. Since it was such a large project, many technologies were used including Nginx, Varnish, Vagrant, Composer, PHPUnit, Selenium, and more.

2015. Flexperto is a platform to incorporate video-enabled communication in your day-to-day interaction with your customers. Pedro developed the website's theme using WordPress from a provided custom layout, building all functionalities as plugins, HTML, CSS, and Visual Studio components.

2016. Lizzy is an art director and designer based in Berlin. Her projects include conceptual development for print and digital design. She also accompanies photo shoots and manages the creative supervision. Pedro developed her website using WordPress, coding it all, and providing knowledge about content structure creation.

2016. Partnering with Enrico Icardi, Pedro developed this website with an unusual layout. The main challenges were the customized grid and image gallery. Built with the static file-based Kirby CMS.

2016 -2017. InStaff is a Software-as-a-Service enhanced Online Marketplace that offers a full-service solution for short term staffing. In other words, a platform where businesses can book temporary staff. Pedro served as the lead developer coding mainly in PHP using the framework Kohana and Propel ORM. He also improved the company software workflow implementing efficient software development standards and agile philosophies.

2016 - present. Schmutz is a comprehensive guide for concerts, music news, and all things live music in Berlin. Pedro joined the project in 2016 as its only developer. Built in WordPress, it has interesting features such as email subscriptions using Mandrill, Google Maps integration, and multi-language.

2017-2019. Maintained WordPress website of Baden-Württemberg Grüne Partei, through Welance.com.

2017 - Via Toptal.
Developed a custom website to Lena McLaughlin, a high school soccer player from US. Built from scratch, using the DIVI theme and a few plugins, the website is a welcome profile for college football coaches to get to know the player.

- Assembled a WordPress website using DIVI theme.
- Configured domain and final server.
- Built custom DIVI modules for football games and tournaments agenda.

2017 - via Toptal
Reviver is the creator of the first digital license plate for cars. They are on a mission to establish a universal connected vehicle innovation platform by reviving legacy automotive solutions and making them fully interactive, robust and connected.

I developed their website using WordPress.

2017-2019. Via Toptal.
Naseba creates growth opportunities, connecting people, partners and ideas by bringing global opportunities to their clients, with a focus on liquid growth markets. Pedro developed a custom WordPress Theme from a PSD layout and customized WP Bakery Page Builder to achieve the client needs of a flexible and concise layout while bringing edit power to the site's pages.

2018. Via Toptal.
Redmako is an Australian Online Learning Center focused on innovation that led it to develop a Virtual Classroom and is a pioneer of Virtual Reality learning across Australia. Pedro developed customizations to WordPress website, including LearnDash (Learning Management System), WooCommerce (eCommerce), and a REST API to communicate with VReddo virtual reality system.