Tiago
Pacheco. — Senior Software Engineer at Hostelworld

02 / Experience

Where I've been building.

1. 2017 — Present

   Porto · Global hostel booking platform

   Hostelworld Group

   • Senior Software EngineerOct 2019 — Present
   • Software EngineerSep 2017 — Sep 2019

   • —Frontend engineer across the entire website — search, property pages, checkout and payments — with Vue 2, Vue 3 and Nuxt.
   • —Migrated legacy jQuery/Twig layers of the main website to Vue.js components.
   • —Built the Progressive Web App and the new checkout flow with Nuxt.
   • —Delivered payment projects: PSD2 compliance and PayPal, Revolut, Google Pay and Apple Pay integrations.
   • —Implemented authentication with Auth0.
   • —Ran many successful A/B tests and conversion optimisation experiments.
   • —Drove technical SEO and web performance improvements; contributed to the design system.
   • —Release manager: coordinating, validating and shipping releases to production.

   • Vue.js
   • Nuxt
   • JavaScript
   • PWA
   • A/B Testing
   • SEO
   • Auth0
   • PHP

2. 2015 — Present

   Freelance · Professional training company

   Software Developer @ Aptidão Completa

   • —Sole developer of the platform that runs the company's operations — designed, built and maintained end-to-end.
   • —Online enrolment, student records and finance: payments, credits, debts and payment history.
   • —Trainer allocation, session schedules and a monthly room-scheduling grid with conflict detection.
   • —Automatic PDF generation (schedules, dossiers, session sheets) and quality reports with Excel/PDF exports.
   • —Automated email reminders, Citizen Card reader integration (C#) and a Dockerised dev environment.

   • Drupal
   • PHP
   • MariaDB
   • Bootstrap
   • Docker
   • C#

3. 2015 — 2017

   Maia · Wireless sensor monitoring

   Full Stack Developer @ ViGIE Solutions

   • —Diagnosed and fixed issues in the web application that manages wireless sensor data; built its new interface and features.
   • —Designed and built RESTful APIs (Slim) to ingest sensor data and serve a mobile app for transport asset monitoring and geo-tracking.
   • —Developed new features for a facility management application.
   • —Set up the team's new development workflow, coding standards and automated tests.

   • PHP
   • Slim
   • jQuery
   • MySQL
   • PostgreSQL
   • Vagrant

4. 2014 — 2015

   Porto

   Junior Web Developer @ Omibee

   • —Drupal 7 development across frontend and backend, troubleshooting and technical support.
   • —Built a JavaScript plugin to serve and rotate video ads across multiple websites for ad providers.
   • —Developed new features for a web platform connecting entrepreneurs and investors.
   • —Designed and implemented a functional test suite with Codeception.

   • Drupal
   • PHP
   • JavaScript
   • Codeception

5. 2014

   Paços de Ferreira

   Web Developer Intern @ Paint manufacturer

   • —Designed and built a web application to manage dye formulas and dosages, replacing a paper-based process; managed the project directly with the client.