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Igor Santos
Verified Expert in Engineering
Internationalization Developer
Igor is a web developer focused on modern PHP and JS, always striving for new technologies. When he wears his back-end hat, he's focused on performant and DRY code, working on API servers or consumers. When he gets his front-end hat on, he works heavily on maintaining the best UX he can make for his users.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
JetBrains, Command-line Interface (CLI), Git, Linux
The most amazing...
...website I've built was Sugar Loaf's. A great challenge with awesome results for an awesome place.
Work Experience
PHP/React Developer
eHungry
- Implemented new features and fixes on a high-traffic portal.
- Updated pre-2010 code to improve maintainability in the long term.
- Migrated a huge codebase from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7, including the migration of database code to plug in with Laravel's database layer, Eloquent.
- Created an i18n'd React PWA from the bare layout, being the sole maintainer for many years. Also integrated it into a Cordova (legacy) shell, so it's distributed as a native application. It included a PHP-based (Restler) API, tested via Codeception.
- Implemented many CLI tools to automate routine tasks, such as Composer, JavaScript, or Python scripts, depending on the necessity.
- Reviewed React code, making sure it kept the original quality standards of the project.
Lead Python Developer
Radix - Bondinho do Pão de Açúcar
- Led project development together with an intern and a senior designer.
- Structured the Django project starting from HTML layouts the designer had been working on (based on layouts from an external company).
- Contributed to meetings with the stakeholders, presenting the project and discussing their concerns.
- Delivered the requested project on a tight time budget, coming in with zero Python experience.
React Developer
Geru
- Created a standalone system from layout PDFs using React and Redux, as a lone developer.
- Worked through complex financial equations using JavaScript and Redux.
- Used heavy unit testing with Redux and pure functions to ensure calculations matched company-provided samples.
- Integrated automatic deployment using GitHub pages for testing purposes.
PHP/API Developer
Smith & Carson
- Implemented a job queueing library using databases for Phalcon for low throughput but long running jobs, released as open-source code.
- Revamped the PDF reporting feature with a modular approach and cleaner API, allowing for expansion with new reports as needed.
- Integrated the new ProsperWorks CRM into the existing company systems with a clean API client and webhooks consumer.
- Helped upgrade an open-source, Phalcon-based API library.
- Upgraded the application from Phalcon 2 and PHP 5.6 to Phalcon 3 and PHP 7.
- Provided continuous review of the huge application codebase to keep it updated with the best market standards.
- Helped maintain a legacy CodeIgniter application while migrating some features into the new one.
React Developer
KORD Electrical
- Developed a complex scrollable application with many different accounting calculations, given the designer prototypes.
- Implemented a React and Redux application following the smart/dumb components pattern.
- Integrated a material design library into the project to have a clean interface for the MVP.
- Organized Docker containers to compile the application and run the PHP API (API not in use anymore).
- Advised the non-technical founder on startup steps (what to build, MVP scope, how to launch, how to investigate the market, and more).
Analyst Developer
M4U
- Developed and maintained white-label products, focused on credit card services, through internal web services.
- Created an internal structure for new projects, relying on flexible technology choices to accommodate the different API styles the team had to work with.
- Created internal command-line systems to streamline and make it easier to locally install projects and enable deployment.
- Advocated the use of best practices on REST APIs whenever possible throughout other teams in the company.
- Organized a central repository to be used by several team projects so internal libraries could be easily shared and controlled according to version constraints.
Ruby (Padrino) Developer
Sameach Vedações
- Redesigned the entire website with responsiveness in mind (it was built in 2010).
- Reorganized the information architecture to better suit what the owners had in mind.
- Re-implemented PayPal checkout from the ground with the newer APIs.
- Refactored a lot of inner code to make maintenance easier in the future.
- Organized tasks through Codebase and reported progress to the client every two weeks (via email, as requested).
Experience
Speaker @ PHPeste: RESTful Best Practices
https://www.slideshare.net/igorsantos07/restfuuuu-boas-prticas-restful-phpeste-2017I was also invited to translate questions for Rasmus Lerdorf, the PHP creator.
eHungry Manager
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ehungry.managerIt was later integrated into a Cordova (legacy) shell, so it's distributed as a native application (Android and iOS) as well. It included a PHP-based (Restler) API, tested via Codeception, and got internationalized to other languages.
Clockify Targets
https://clockify-targets.web.appIt's a SvelteKit project that was deployed to Firebase and is using LocalStorage (for now).
Mini-calc
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dcjlnkbkpjdgjemfjgnoklibjijfbgmgKonato | Events Directory
I was the sole developer, building everything from the database to the front- and back-ends, using PHP7, Laravel 5, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Heroku.
It is open-sourced at https://github.com/konato-events/web.
Geru | Debt Calculator
The original product is now offline.
Sameach Vedações - responsive redesign
Skills
Languages
PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP, CSS, HTML, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Less, Sass, CSS3, HTML5, Ruby, Python
Frameworks
Eloquent, PhalconPHP, React Native, YARN, Redux, Bootstrap 3, Codeception, Svelte, Bootstrap, Bootstrap 3+, Symfony, Django, Padrino, Sinatra, Yii, Laravel, Symfony 2, Material UI
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, React, ProsperWorks CRM API, jQuery, jQuery Validation, ActiveRecord, Auth0 API, PayPal API, GitHub API, jQuery Mobile, jQuery UI, LocalStorage
Tools
Sculpin, Bitbucket, GitHub, NPM, Git, Subversion (SVN), CodebaseHQ, WebStorm, PhpStorm, Composer, JetBrains, RubyMine, NGINX, Apache, GitHub Pages
Paradigms
RESTful Development, Database Design, REST, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Testing, Functional Programming, UI Design
Other
Embedded Software, Back-end, APIs, Full-stack, Command-line Interface (CLI), User Experience (UX), Usability, API Testing, Restler, Bootstrap 4, Bootstrap UI, Internationalization, Reporting, Architecture, OWASP, RESTful Web Services, SOAP, Material Design, PayPal, Chrome Extensions, Finance APIs, SvelteKit, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Web Development, Cordova, Laravel ActiveRecord, GitHub Actions, Firebase Hosting, REST API Clients, Axios
Platforms
DeployHQ, Linux, Docker, Heroku, Firebase
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, NoSQL
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems
Universidade Estácio de Sá - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visiting Student in Computer Science
Dalhousie University - Halifax, Canada
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