Goncalo Tavares Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Joined BFM's NYC multicultural Dev Dept as a Fullstack (but PHP expert) dev. A journey on which I had the pleasure to work with great people that I ended up growing with. Back then, way before CSS-Modules, Hydration, WebWorkers, SPA's, StateManagement and stuff, being a Full Stack dev meant to have know-how on server OS(unix) and it's configuration & software (apache/nginx, memcache, solr) + Backend technology (PHP) + FE (HTML + LESS!! <- yes before SASS). So, no IT nor DevOps dept. The iPhone was starting to rule the world (wifi hotspots, accessible mobile data plans) so Flash finally died and responsive design (w/ jQuery as its sidekick) took its place. Been there, done that. GIT and the Atlassian Suite where there. Ask them.So: some WP, Laravel and Yii, a bit of Java and Python but a lot (like really a lot) of Drupal. From 7 onwards; In the meanwhile, partnering up with Acquia and adopting it's CD/CI.Let's name names: EmpireStateBuilding, Railworks, CathayBank, APHW, StopAndStor, IGY Marinas, KnowledgeLeader. During this period BFM was bought, rebought, rebranded... But the core team stood still in the eye of the storm. Obviously new people came in because depts were merged and I might have been 'Promoted' to BE Lead, Drupal Lead, Drupal Architect but the compromise was the same. To deliver quality.One Episode: KL.The BRD for this website (SaaS?) was insane. They sell access to content. PDFs, XLSXs... but also to a 3rd party video courses provider. Drupal Core RBA wasn't going to do the trick, cause access was manageable by other users (1 or more, which might not have access to content, or be on the KL side), Payment had at least 3 stories (paypal, a freebie, invoicing...), the pricing rules for subscring, upgrading and renewing subs weren't linear. ~10 subscription types which affected coupons and renewals logic. Ended up with new concepts such as 'Seat' and 'PaymentRef', a lot of custom modules.Done with 2 additional Drupal devs on a real team effort.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Teamed up with both VivoEusébio & EstúdioJoãoCampos as the goto person for web development. Ended up doing a custom CMS in PHP + JS. Just because. It did had a CLI to manage content-types with DB schemas and the media items were reusable entities. Way before WP & Drupal had it on their core.

Lisbon, Portugal

Back in the days where Macromedia/Adobe Flash meant Dynamic & Rich Content.... well, I did it. During this shot collaboration period I did a couple of campaigns and websites for clients such as Vodafone and Danone.