Rui M. Andrés

Senior Creative (Design + Development)

Freelancing•  June 2012 - Present•  Coimbra, Portugal

Many different client-work from designing brands to eCommerce websites to systems integrations.

Senior Creative Engineer

Pixelmatters•  April 2021 - March 2024•  Porto, Portugal

The first Creative Engineer of the company, worked for clients like Airkit (acquired by Salesforce in 2023), Quantic.edu, Formsite (acquired by Formstack in 2023), Veza and more. My role consisted in everything from tech stack definition/tech analysis/strategy to development team leadership and development itself, as well as product team support with technical and functional aspects. I’ve also worked closely with the Design team to ensure top notch quality and a great flow between Engineering and Design. At the same time I’ve mentored colleagues and helped in a myriad of other projects, from Design to Development and everything in between.

Creative Technologist

Angry Ventures•  March 2020 - March 2021•  Lisboa, Portugal

Logo da empresa Angry Ventures Creative TechnologistCreative Technologist Angry Ventures · Tempo integralAngry Ventures · Tempo integral mar de 2020 - mar de 2021 · 1 ano 1 mêsDe mar de 2020 até mar de 2021 · 1 ano 1 mês Lisboa, PortugalLisboa, Portugal Lead full-stack developer, project manager and creative technologist (envisioning different solutions to problems, defining the technological stack/architecture to follow and helping define the visual intentions and design systems to use). Notable clients: TVCine, KindaHome, Seaside and more. I have also done business proposals, budgeting, time-estimation and client facilitation. Internally I improved processes, technologies and tools used. I also managed VPS linux servers and a myriad of WHM/cPanels. The last project here was a Shopify <-> SAP integrator using Koa.JS (API Server) + GraphQL (shopify calls) + MongoDB (DB for Configs, Logging and Job managing) + Vue.js (BO Dashboard) + Bree.js (for cron like jobs), which I designed and developed alone. I also set up DevOps using GitLab as a git repository and a CI/CD platform.

Founder & Full-Stack Designer/Developer

Metacosmic•  October 2015 - March 2020•  Lisbon, Portugal

Founded a collective of creatives from development, to designers, video editors, and more. The project was accepted to an entrepreneurship program and we were one of the winners (10k€ investment) to develop the idea into a company.

Founder and Chief of Tech & Design

PlaceSum•  January 2018 - March 2020•  Lisbon, Portugal

Envisioned a new kind of way to create digital content based on proximity on the web. The app was accepted into an entrepreneurship program and we were one of the winners. We also got into the Tourism Explorers acceleration program, where we realized that it was better to shelf the idea, a few months before COVID hit, lucky us. Lacked problem-solution fit, too tech focused.

Web Designer & Developer

Ez-Team•  March 2014 - October 2015•  Coimbra, Portugal

Started as a Graphic Designer but quickly grew to a position where I was responsible for all the web development of the company, did Research & Development of a 1st person ‘shooter’ like web experience to explore and discover 3D spaces.

Founder & Web Developer/Designer

P'ralém•  February 2013 - March 2014•  Coimbra, Portugal

Developed and Designed an web app built on WordPress that wanted to be a new way to share thoughts and cultural pieces within a community (medium-like at the same time that its first version also launched).

Instituto CRIAP

Certificate of Pedagogical Skills•  October 2023 - December 2023

This certificate validates the teacher’s pedagogical skills, as well as ensuring that they have the necessary knowledge and skills to promote effective learning adapted to the needs of students: planning, execution and evaluation of educational sessions. Furthermore, it is the certification that legally allows the exercise of professional activity as a teacher.

IAPMEI

StartupVoucher•  January 2018 - December 2019

We were accepted into this program with the placesum app, it helped greatly with the initially design and development of the app through various support instruments made available over a period of 12 months.

Fábrica de Startups e Turismo de Portugal

Tourism Explorers•  January 2019 - December 2019

Accepted into the acceleration program with the placesum app and received great feedback from colleagues and mentors. It was during this acceleration program that we concluded that the app didn’t have product-market fit and was too tech focused.

INPI

EmpreendeJá•  January 2017 - December 2018

Participated with metacosmic project and was one of the winners of a 10k€ investment. Included with the program were some mandatory and optional certified courses, which I took the following: – Taxation – Entrepreneur profile and potential – diagnosis/development – Quality Standards – Right to equality and non-discrimination – Accounting – Scalability and Replicability – The Green Economy: Good Pratices – Motivation and Team Management – Business Plan

UNESCO

Biodiversity and Conservation in Sustainable Development•  October 2017 - October 2017

Short-course that helped shine a new light and understanding in the importance of Sustainable Development and it’s impact to Biodiversity and its conservation.