Available for opportunities across time zones from PST to EET.
Front-end
Back-end
Design & UX
I'm a generalist by curiosity, but what I excel at is building web applications. I enjoy spending my time on Figma creating or collaborating with designers and decision-makers on the experience the users will get and diving into coding those into reality. Big fan of Coglode's Behavioral Design System!
I enjoy all things technology related, and I fell in love with computers early on. Yeah I'm one of those guys that used to mess around with PhotoShop, Flash and game making engines as a kid.
I also enjoy spending my time after work outside. I live with my wife in a city surrounded by nature and I'm very serious about eating healthy (and delicious), physical activities, and surfing 🏄♂️.
I've been creating web apps for over 7 years and know my way around the entire development stack (server, back-end, design, and front-end). I'm continuously learning and improving skills around all things development related, and I really enjoy reading docs and implementing APIs.
Work examples
I'll put up a GitHub repo to showcase my work here soon, in the meanwhile I have this public link I can share from a recent project. It should give an idea of my skills, but I definitely encourage you to reach out to talk about my previous experiences and tech expertise.
Journey
Early inspirations
Since a young age I spent a lot of time with computers. I would be often playing games, trying to hack stuff with Cheat Engine, and then found a passion for creating games as well — special thanks to Curt Bererton for creating PlayCrafter, a game-making site that influenced big time who I am. I learned English, tinkered a lot with Adobe's products, and was always exploring and creating something (designs, games, animations, basic apps by copy-pasting ActionScript code from the web). All of that led me to be sure I wanted to persue a degree in programming.
🎓 Enrolled in a Computer Engineering program
👾 Shipped a game, just for fun
Made this game using Construct 2 and published it to Google Play. It's been removed from the store but still available on the web, and even works on VR.
🧑💻 Started developing web apps
While pursuing my Computer Engineering degree, I learned React on my own and gained hands-on experience thanks to a business that trusted me to solve some real problems they were facing. Charged ~$700 for 2 projects, but the learning was invaluable. Oh and they still use the software I've created!
💻 Joined a tech company in Brazil as a Software Developer
Still at university, I joined a tech company as an intern and within 5 months was offered a full-time position. Since I had hands-on experience and a good deal of expertise with JavaScript in general, I was assigned to lead the front-end of a new project and eventually mentored 3 other FE devs on the team.
✍️ Started publishing
I've written and published some articles on Medium, mostly to share knowledge with the tech community. Some of those pieces still help out people to this day.
🎓 Graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
🇨🇿 Joined Emplifi as a remote Software Engineer
Established “Me, Inc.” as my personal business entity and joined Emplifi (previously SocialBakers) as a full-time contractor. Was part of a team responsible for Emplifi's Care product, focused on customer care.
Emplifi Hackathon, our team won 3rd place with this Physics Paint app idea I had. It may lag your browser after a few dots, but it's fun to play with. Space-bar to toggle physics ON/OFF.
🇬🇧 Joined Reincubate as a remote Software Engineer
Joined Reincubate (makers of the Camo app) to maintain and introduce new features on the operational side of the business. Updated the checkout experience to use Stripe's Payment Element, created the enterprise license management interface, re-factored the consumer license management, and was also responsible for other parts of the infra with internal tools and the creation of the Camo Asset Gallery.
Wife and I flew to London on our own to meet with the team. Hlynur (on the left) who was my manager and whom I've learned so much from and Aidan (on the right) founder of Reincubate and the person behind the amazing experience seen on Camo.
💪 Started a one-man development studio
With the aim of learning in practice every part of the development cycle, I started my company-of-one "Shipny" and worked on every step of the development cycle: understanding the problem, sketching solutions, creating the UI and prototypes in Figma, structuring the data architecture, setting up a server on Linode, testing, creating the FE experience, shipping to production, analyzing data with MetaBase, spinning up Docker containers, tracking errors with Sentry, sending transactional emails, implementing APIs, etc…
⭐️ Available for work
My journey as a solopreneur taught me invaluable lessons and helped me build a diverse skill set as I intended, but it is also a lonely path. I miss the energy and the limitless potential that comes from working together as a team. I’m open for opportunities where I can be a key driver in product development, and bring ideas to life.
© Paulo Levy