Curriculum Vitæ

Guilherme Simões

Email

guilherme.rdems@gmail.com

Address

Lisboa, Portugal

Birth date

29th of January, 1990

Summary

I’m a Software Engineer interested in technology, the web, open-source and data visualization. I like writing performant, high quality, maintainable code, and help others do it too.

Experience

2018 — Present

Senior Developer at Sky Member of the team that built the streaming apps Sky Q, Peacock and SkyShowtime using Lightning, a WebGL framework. Highlights include: improving performance of CSS animations; detecting and fixing JavaScript memory leaks; improving performance of GLSL shaders; migrating JavaScript libraries to TypeScript; developing internal linting rules using TypeScript and ASTs; fine-tuning Webpack, Terser and TypeScript configurations, greatly reducing the app’s bundle size.

2016 — 2018

Developer at Runtime Revolution Worked as a software consultant for multiple clients. Co-led a data-visualization project using D3, React and Ruby on Rails.

2014 — 2016

Developer at Feedzai Worked on the company’s main product written in Backbone. Co-led development of the front-end of the company’s second product using React.

2014

Developer at Whitesmith Interned with technical team. Developed features and fixed bugs in multiple client projects using Ruby on Rails and plain JavaScript.

Education

2012 — 2014

MSc, Informatics Engineering Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra

2008 — 2013

BSc, Informatics Engineering Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra

2008

Certificate of Proficiency in English University of Cambridge Council of Europe Level C2

Skills

Computer Skills Language Skills Soft Skills

Projects

GitHub I love open-source so here is where I share some of my side-projects.

Blog I like to teach and document things I learn so here is where I write about programming, technology and data viz.

StackOverflow I also like to help other people so that is why I try my best to answer any questions on this Q&A site.