Bruno Teixeira

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Natural languages:

Portuguese (native)
English (fluent)
German (B2)

Work Experience

Lead Engineer at BCG X (Berlin, Germany)

Since November 2019 4 yrs

BCG is a business consulting firm with units for engineering and digital ventures

Responsibilities:

Development of highly interactive SPA frontends
Technical leadership of project teams
Sprint planning and ticket grooming
Coordination with designer team and client/stakeholders

Selection of used tech:

TypeScript, Create-react-app, React-router, SASS, Contentful CMS, Strapi CMS, NextJS, iOS apps, Apollo GraphQL, MobX (redux-like), i18next

Selected client work:

(Global inter-gov. agency) Prototype dashboard for assessing distribution costs of Covid-19 vaccines
- State-heavy SPA, GraphQL, fully internationalised, deployed to Azure
(Large telecom) Gamified user area with coin rewards and state-of-the-art game-like animations
- Integration with client's existing user area via Python backend
- "Retro game" coin effects and appealing animations in all user interactions
(Large automaker) Simulating in-car experience of tweaking lights and customising the dashboard
- Procedurally-generated CSS 3D transforms
- Annotated SVGs with dynamic styles to simulate ambient lights
- Simulated light and weather conditions with image overlays

Frontend Team Lead at Homify GmbH (Berlin, Germany)

December 2016 – February 2019 2 yrs

Homify is an online directory for home improvements professionals

Achievements and Responsibilities:

Introduction of a Webpack asset pipeline
Integration of React with the Rails stack to dramatically decrease development time of new features
Acting Scrum Master for two teams
Acting Product Owner for in-house developed translation tool
Tech lead for the frontend team

Senior Frontend Developer at Locafox GmbH (Berlin, Germany)

January 2015 – June 2016 1y 6m

Locafox was a price comparison portal and shop locator website

Full migration to a responsive site using Twitter Bootstrap grid
Full website migration from Angular to React
Introduction of the require.js module system integrated with Rails' sprockets
Maintenance of Ruby-on-Rails server-side code

Frontend Developer at Zalando SE (Berlin, Germany)

January 2013 – December 2014 2 yrs

Zalando is an online fashion retailer and logistics platform

Development and maintenance of the online shop portal (desktop, mobile and app versions)
Implementation of PCI secure payment compliance using inter-iframe post messages
Implementation of unit tests with Mocha, Chai and Karma for coverage
Introduction of a Maven+Gulp build system
Participation in the transition to a single responsive web application

Developer / Junior Consultant at Opensoft SA (Lisbon, Portugal)

June 2010 – December 2012 2y 6m

Opensoft is a consulting firm specialized in implementing E-government software solutions

Java web development (JBoss, Tomcat)
SQL database development (MSSQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Implementation and consumption of REST and SOAP webservices
Mocking of webservices with SOAPUI
Development with the ExtJS widget library
Development of a small parser in Python for generating Java code from natural language rules

Software Engineer