Handymen - Working specialties
Experience:
Freelancer // Self-Employed
2025 - Present
Developing and delivering web solutions for small businesses and individual clients, with a focus on React-based applications.
Managing full project lifecycle: from `git init` to deployment and maintenance.
Crafting responsive, user-centric interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
Software Developer
JAVALI, Caparica, Portugal
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributed to the development and maintenance of dynamic web applications, primarily using Drupal (PHP).
Utilized a stack including PHP, JavaScript, CSS3 (SCSS), HTML5, and Twig for front-end and back-end tasks.
Practiced Agile (SCRUM) methodologies and version control with SVN.
Involved in building digital communication technologies for diverse web and mobile platforms.
Web Developer - Full-Stack (Internship)
BLASTING Energy (Startup at FCUL), Lisbon, Portugal
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Spearheaded the development of the company’s primary website (front-end and back-end).
Worked with core technologies like PHP and SQL in a dynamic startup environment.
Gained hands-on experience contributing to a significant company project.
Web Developer - Front-End
DBX We Breathe Ideas, Caparica, Portugal
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Developed client websites using WordPress, gaining initial agency-level web development experience.
Collaborated within a team environment on various web projects.
Junior Software Engineer (Internship)
A2iT Tecnologia, Madan Parque Sul, Caparica, Portugal
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Developed programs in Visual FoxPro within the PHC CS software.
Explored new programming languages and software, deepening technical knowledge.
Integrated internal tools by working with legacy data systems.
Education:
React from Zero to Mastery (w/ hooks, router, API, Projects)
Udemy (Online Learning Platform)
// Ongoing - Expected 2025
Relevant Coursework: React, Hooks, Router, API Integration, Firebase, MongoDB, Mongoose, Modern JavaScript (ES6+).
A.A.S. in Mobile App Development (CTeSP)
ISTEC - Higher Institute of Advanced Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal
Oct 2017 - Aug 2021
Relevant Coursework: Web Programming, Mobile Device Programming, Databases (SQL, NoSQL concepts), Algorithms & Data Structures, UX/UI Design, Project Methodology.
Professional Course: Management and Programming of Computer Systems (Level IV EQF)
Cacilhas Tejo Secondary School, Almada, Portugal
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
Relevant Coursework: Computer Systems Programming (C, Java basics), Operating Systems, Communication Networks, Computer Architecture, ICT.
Skills:
-React
-JavaScript
-HTML5
-CSS3
-SCSS
-PHP
-SQL
-MySQL
-MongoDB
-Firebase
-Drupal
-WordPress
-APIs
-SCRUM
-Node.js (Basic)
-Git
Additionally:
-Digital Marketing Certificate
Google
-Web Accessibility: Where to Start
NAU Platform
-Digital Content Accessibility
NAU Platform
-GDPR for Attentive Citizens
NAU Platform
-Complete PHP 7 Course
Udemy
-Complete PHP 7 Course
Hcode
-HTML and CSS for Beginners Course
EAD Education
-Web Development Techniques with HTML5 and CSS3
Domestika
-Developing Secure Software (LFD121)
The Linux Foundation