Goat farmer, soldier, developer. In that order.
I finished a bootcamp at Ironhack in 2023 and spent the next three years at Concealed, a web agency, building full-stack applications — mostly React front ends on Supabase.
I also ran my own client accounts there: gathering requirements, scoping new requests, and sorting out whatever broke. There were project managers at the agency, but on my accounts I was usually the one on the call, and often the only one.
The range on my CV is not restlessness. It is a small team, where the same person handles the data model, the interface and the deploy. Now I do that for my own clients.
Before the code
- 2016Summer camp supervisorCâmara Municipal de Lagos
- 2017Goat farmerMisværgeitas, Norway
- 2018Cattle farmerLandbrukstjenester Salten, Norway
- 2020Goods transport driverTransvinha, Leiria
- 2020–22Infantry soldierExército Português, Viseu
- 2023Web development bootcampIronhack
- 2023–26Web developerConcealed, remote
Off duty
Surfing
A year and a half in, and it is what I organise my weekends around. I am still bad at it, which has turned out not to matter: an hour of puts everything else back in proportion.
Kickboxing
Twice a week, a few years now, purely for fitness — I do not compete and I am not planning to. It is the only training I have ever kept up, because holds my attention in a way a treadmill never has.
Twenty months in the army
1st Riflemen Company, 14th Infantry Regiment, deployed on the NATO Tailored Forward Presence mission in Romania, plus a fifteen-day multinational exercise. It is where I learned to stay , and to finish things long after they stopped being enjoyable.
Education
- Web development bootcampIronhack · 2023
- Secondary education (EQF 4)Escola Secundária Júlio Dantas, Lagos · 2016
- Basic trainingExército Português, Abrantes · 2020–21
Languages
- PortugueseNative
- EnglishC1