João 'Jaye' Almeida

Born in Portugal 1984, moved to Australia in 2011 (PR), currently living in Balgownie NSW.
Electrical and Computers Engineer, BSc, MSC by IST.
Programming since 1996, professional web developer since 2003.

Roles

at Goods International, Inc as Full Stack Engineering Consultant (2021-2024)

• Designed and implemented movie recommendation algorithm based on machine learning & advanced mongodb pipelines
• Assisted in code base conversions from TailwindCSS to MUI, single VPS to scalable kubernetes platform
• Implemented CI/CD (drone.io), automated device testing (testcafe)
• Implemented ticket checkout flows using Stripe Elements and Stripe checkout

at Goalhub Pty Ltd as Full Stack Engineering Consultant (2016-2024)

• Oversight and implementation of ISO 17001:2013 standards
• Designed and implemented a Docker/Kubernetes platform based on Symfony/LAMP stack
• SPAs and mobile apps built on Angular, MUI and Ionic

at Momentum Cloud Pty Ltd as Senior Developer then CTO (2011-2016)

• Designed and implemented a REST (PHP/Symfony/LAMP) and SPA (NodeJs/AngularJS/Ionic) based infrastructure using TDD and BDD
• Built two social SPAs integrated with Stripe, InfusionSoft and serving over 300 schools in Australia with a team of 4 devs
• Implemented PHPUnit/Jasmine/Jenkins/Docker based automated testing reaching over 1k functional tests in 1 year (now over 2k)
• Responsible for 1MLoC and 4 developers
• Implemented Symfony1 and Doctrine1 tools and plugins for school admin platform in a SCRUM and Git Flow environment

at Tziranda SA as Developer (2007-2011)

• Built Track and Trace logistics solutions using LAMP and Java/J2ME, with Datamatrix code image recognition capabilities
• Wrote mobile marketing applications (Java/Flex), embedded linux applications (C), a web based CRM (LAMP)

at FLUL and as a freelancer as Web Developer/Designer (2003-2007)

• Designed flyers, posters and built websites using ASP and LAMP/Joomla/Drupal

Contact

[email protected]

https://hipercubo.net/joao/ | https://github.com/starstuffharvestingstarlight

Projects

• 2021-2024 Good.film

  NextJS film aggregration and machine learning based suggestion platform

• 2023-2024 Burraga Languages Platform

  First Nations Language learning platform and mobile applications

• 2016-2024 Goalhub

  Platform and app development including CI/CD

• 2017-2021 Leafcutter/Marlin agencies

  Custom integrations (e.g. PayPal, Stripe), Laravel, Angular, and WordPress

• 2019-2024 Storylines

  First Nations Community website platform

• 2015-2016 myPLgoals

  Goal setting SPA for educators

• 2011-2016 Momentum ESR

  School Admin Platform

• 2014-2016 MGoals

  Goal setting SPA for teachers and school children

• 2014-2014 tcg-ocr

  TCG OCR webcam character recognition app

• 2010-2011 Nitec

  Embedded linux application for fleet services

• 2007-2011 Tziranda Track and Trace

  Real-time package tracking using QR image recognition

• 2008-2008 Sumol Best Tricks

  Youtube API-integrated Flex application

• 2004-2007 Chili Com Carne web store

  Joomla web store set up and template design

• 2003-2006 Cátedra A Razão

  Faculty website development using ASP