André Luís Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Portugal

Remote

Managed multiple frontend engineering teams (including hiring, 1-to-1s, coaching, breaking down work, scheduling, assigning and other daily tasks): — 2018 (2 teams) Plan, Create— 2019 (3 teams): Create:Source Code, Create:Knowledge, Create:Editor— 2020-2023 (3 teams): Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review + Delivery and Scalability (FE counterpart)— 2023 (4 teams): Create:Source Code, Create:Code Review + Delivery and Scalability (FE counterpart) + Editor Extensions (AI in IDEs)Led and participated in several engineering initiatives:— Performance Round Tables— New diffs— Large MR Performance improvements— AI Integration into features in specific groups (Source Code and Code Review)— Merge Request Report Widgets (Working Group)— Transient Bugs (Working Group)Among others.Kickstarted and staffed several functional areas:— Editor Extensions to support AI deployment into multiple IDEs, including new Language Server— Supported the inaugural frontend project at GitLab to fully embrace GraphQL (Design Management)Improved the process:— Shaped the process of Technical Interview for Frontend candidates— Improved the management and communication of misused terms— Evolved team building initiatives for increased cohesion: Create Team Day— Updated Code Review process at GitLab to support newly shipped featuresContributed to growth of those around:— Mentored and onboarded peer Engineering Managers— Coached and promoted direct reports supporting their personal and professional growth— Participated in several panels, podcasts, conferences spreading best practices on how to manage remote teams successfully

Remote

Improving the Frontend of GitLab, one merge request at a time.—More details of my responsibilities will be added here in the future.

Lisbon, Portugal

Product development in an agile team, as a full-stack developer with emphasis on frontend engineering.

Reykjavík, Iceland

Working on the frontend of an in-house product, as well as prototyping an upcoming project.

Lisbon

Responsible for:* Development and strategy for the Frontend Engineering of UniPlaces* Making sure the product is aligned with our target user—evolving—needs, conducting user interviews, Information Architecture efforts, Prototyping, etc. — all with a pragmatic and lean approach to user-centered design.* Whatever comes our way.

Lisbon

My responsibilities included:- Lead the frontend development of latest iteration of the most popular site from Portugal: www.sapo.pt (was also part of the team that built previous iteration in 2009). Made use of HTML5, CSS3, unobtrusive and thought-through JavaScript, Responsive Webdesign techniques, Resolution Independence, etc.- Stress-test web platforms before deployment to production- Support projects across the entire workflow from kick-off to launch: brainstorming, wireframing, prototyping, visual design and implementation, IxD, development, pre-launch and all in-between;- Writing documentation to increase adoption of web-standards based development;- prepare & deliver technical training sessions (topics range: html5, css3, rwd, javascript dev, microformats/microdata, etc.)- Assist teams in the User Centered Design process, carrying out User-testing sessions and heuristic usability techniques.

Outsourced to PTC/SAPO, worked on the SAPO Mail for two years.I was involved in several parts of a webapp lifecycle. From writing PHP code to add new modules to an opensource platform (Horde), to writing a client-side full application in JavaScript to be run on top of the webmail platform (Horde/DIMP), including writing Operator— Firefox addon— userscripts to import vCards straight into the user’s address book, contributed to an opensource project (eTicket) and deployed a highly customized mediawiki.

Analysis, database design, webdesign (semantic markup), rich interfaces with javascript (and ajax) enhancements and backend development with PHP (OOP, CURL, GD), MySQL, XML.