Rui Santos - Android Engineer

About

Hi, I'm Rui Santos, a professional Android Engineer and all around technology enthusiast. If you need a freelancer to build or change something in your app, or perhaps you need a new feature on it, don't hesitate, get in touch.

Skills & Tech

  • Android
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Agile
  • JIRA
  • REST

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • English

Hobbies

I like to explore other technologies/languages and often time will educate myself in other topics(automation, backend development, frontend development) so I can be a more robust developer.

Outside of programming I am a fan of LEGO and like to ocasionally build something, I like video games, I'm also a casual player of the popular card game Magic: The Gathering and recently discovered a lot of enjoyment in triathlon. I have done 1 super-sprint distance triathlon(300m swim, 10k bike, 2k run) in 43 minutes so far but I'm already planning and training for the next, lengthier one.

Contacts

ruiapdsantos@gmail.com

Work

I've worked as an Android Engineer in the following companies:

  • December 2018 to Present - Verb Technology Company
    • Work closely with other teams - Design, product, iOS
    • Building and maintaining a company customizable CRM app
    • Overtime, migrate the app from Java to Kotlin, MVP to MVVM, introduction to MAD/Jetpack components overtime - Room, Lifecycle, Databinding, Navigation
    • Collaboration with more Android developers

  • March 2017 to December 2018 - Chippd
    • First remote working job
    • Also worked with Angular to make one of Chippd's products - Storychips - linking real world objects to a virtual page via QR code.
    • Started working with Kotlin on Android

  • November 2016 to February 2017 - Card4b
    • Since this is a ticketing company, I got to work very deep with ticketing system technology and very low level programming - NFC, Bluetooth, MiFare

  • May 2015 to September 2016 - Tradiio
    • Music streaming app
    • First job working closely with a design and product team, building the app and making decisions based of analytics and user feedback

  • January 2014 to April 2015 - Weclipse
    • First job at a startup
    • Weclipse was a startup focused on video based content, with this app you challenge your friends to a topic, your friends would do a video reply to your topic and the videos would then be compiled into a single sequence and shared with everyone involved
    • Thinking back, this concept was way ahead of it's time

  • April 2013 - October 2013 - Vectweb
    • This was my first job as a developer, it started part-time for the first couple of months, I was working with PHP and it was ongoing with college

Education

I've studied Computer Science and graduated with a Master's degree from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2014