José Figueiredo

Profile

I'm a software developer with six years of experience ranging from large-scale B2B software to product websites for small customers. Whatever the project, I always strive to keep the end-customer in mind in order to provide the best possible user experience.

Experience

Uniguest

Porto, Portugal

Software Engineer

Oct 2021 - Jun 2025

  • Converted a legacy digital signage management Windows application to a modern web app that fits a SASS model.
  • Built a large-scale resource management web app to book and manage desks, parking spaces, and other such resources within one or more buildings.
  • Designed and implemented software to manage several hundreds of digital signage devices all pulling from a central API, ensuring balanced data loads, stability, and multiple fallback mechanisms to guarantee 24/7 operation.
  • Worked with my team to manage both customer and stakeholder requirements, ensuring everyone involved with the project is kept happy and up to date.
  • ReactJS
  • .NET
  • Javascript
  • C#
  • Angular
  • CSS
  • SCSS
  • LiteDB
  • Web
  • Agile

LOAD

Aveiro, Portugal

Software Engineer

Feb 2020 - Feb 2021

  • Developed several product and service websites for a multitude of customers using a multitude of technologies such as the MERN stack and Wordpress with custom themes and plug-ins for complex behaviour.
  • Designed and developed an endless runner videogame using Unity3D (C#) targetting mobile platforms.
  • Collaborated with a major player in the Angolan banking industry to develop a middleware that interacts with the country's central banking system to facilitate electronic payments using ASP.NET Core.
  • .NET
  • Wordpress
  • C#
  • Unity3D
  • MongoDB
  • PHP
  • NodeJS
  • ExpressJS

Novabase

Lisbon, Portugal

Junior Software Engineer

Oct 2019 - Feb 2020

  • Brought an extensive legacy codebase up to modern standards while in close contact with the customer, understanding and continuously implementing their requirements into the new product.
  • .NET
  • C#
  • Angular
  • SOAP
  • REST

Education

High School Diploma in Science and Technology

Escola Secundária Damião de Goes

photo of me

Skills

    • Programming Languages
    • C#
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • CSS
    • SASS
      Frameworks
    • .NET
    • NodeJS
    • ExpressJS
    • React
    • Angular
    • Hugo
    • Flask
      Databases
    • SQL Server
    • LiteDB
    • MongoDB
    • PostgreSQL
      Developer Tools
    • Git
    • Github Actions
    • Docker
    • Jenkins
    • Postman
    • VSCode
    • Visual Studio
    • Unity3D
      Misc
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacOS
    • Agile
    • Scrum
    • REST
    • SOAP
    • CI/CD
    • TDD
    • SOLID
    • OOP
    • Microservices

Languages

  • Portuguese
    Native
  • English
    C2
  • Spanish
    A2

Interests

  • Hiking
  • Photography
  • CompSci
  • Literature
  • Astronomy
  • Videogames