João 'Jaye' Almeida

Born in Portugal 1984, moved to Australia in 2011 (PR, IELTS 8.5)
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 Software Engineer (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 CTO (2016-2025)

• 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 NodeJS GraphQL Tensor Flow NextJS MUI Python TypeScript

NextJS film aggregration and machine learning based suggestion platform. Implemented several machine learning systems, full CI/CD pipeline, conversion to kubernetes based cluster from single node, full payment flows using Stripe including advanced multi account payouts.

2023-2025 Burraga Languages Platform Directus GraphQL Angular Ionic TypeScript

First Nations Language learning platform and mobile applications. Main scope and system architecture, overseeing a small team of 3.

2016-2025 Goalhub Angular Symfony Docker Kubernetes PHP TypeScript

Platform and app development including CI/CD, TDD, and backends using Symfony. Team size between 2 and 5. Implemented integrations with DoE data systems, payment gateways (Stripe), and marketing platforms (CustomerIO, InfusionSoft)

2017-2021 Leafcutter/Marlin agencies WordPress Laravel Angular MUI PHP TypeScript

Many projects in a high paced agency environment. Custom integrations (e.g. PayPal, Stripe), Laravel, Angular, and WordPress. A highlight was a dynamic form builder based on VueJS directly integrating with Gutenberg.

2019-2025 Storylines WordPress PHP

First Nations Community website platform based on WordPress multisite. Implemented media submission and moderation procedures using AWS buckets.

2015-2016 myPLgoals AngularJS JavaScript NodeJS TypeScript PHP

Goal setting SPA for educators, with single sign on options.

2011-2016 Momentum ESR Symfony Doctrine ORM JavaScript MVC LAMP PHP

School Admin Platform encompassing Attendance, Welfare as well as many other school administration related activities. Implemented integrations with government data systems such as OASIS, 3PI and SAIS, as well.

2014-2016 MGoals AngularJS JavaScript TypeScript NodeJS PHP

Goal setting SPA for teachers and school children, with SMS and email notifications.

2014-2014 tcg-ocr Python Machine Learning

TCG OCR webcam character recognition app usinc OpenCV

2010-2011 Nitec Mobile C

Embedded linux application for fleet services

2007-2011 Tziranda Track and Trace Java LAMP PHP J2ME

Real-time package tracking using QR image recognition

2008-2008 Sumol Best Tricks Flash REST LAMP PHP

Youtube API-integrated Flex application

2004-2007 Chili Com Carne web store LAMP PHP

Joomla web store set up and template design

2003-2006 Cátedra A Razão WISA ASP

Faculty website development using ASP