• 🔭 I’m currently looking for a new opportunity
• 🌱 I’m currently learning more about:
  • Cypress
  • Storybook
• 📘 I'm currently refreshing my React's knowledge - moved into Vue.js in 2021 and now I'm trying to regain some confidence using React again
• 🗂️ I’m currently organizing my portfolio
• 💬 Do you wanna talk? Send an email to: [email protected]

👩‍🦱 About me:

My name is Catia and I am a frontend developer with more than 8 years of experience in product-oriented projects. As a frontend software engineer, my main responsibilities include developing user interfaces, building reusable code and optimising performance for speed and scalability. I collaborate closely with back-end developers and designers to ensure technical feasibility and enhance usability. Additionally, I maintain and improve websites to keep them functional and user-friendly, while ensuring high-quality standards and brand consistency. Staying updated with emerging technologies and industry trends is also a key part of my role to continuously improve my skills and knowledge - checkout my latests repos or my linkedin courses section.

🎓 Education:

• Bachelor's and Master's in Design and Multimedia at University of Coimbra

💼 Experience:

• 8+ years of frontend development
• 4+ years of typescript
• 4+ years of professional experience with modern Javascript frameworks
• 3+ years of professional experience with Vue
• 1+ year of professional experience with React
• 8+ years of agile development

Soft skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Exceptional attention to the detail
• Good communication skills
• Excellent in findind good UI/UX solutions for product ideas
• Strong sense of commitment and leadership of a project or team

Tech skills / stack:

• 💻 Programming Languages: Typescript, JavaScript, PHP { SQL, Processing, Java, Python }
• 📚 Frameworks/libraries: Vue (2&3), Nuxt (2&3), Vuex, Pinia, Vue i18n, React, Redux, Preact, jQuery, D3.js
• 🎨 Markup and Styling: HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Vuetify, Tailwind
• 🛠️ Build tools and task runners: Vite, Webpack, Gulp, Docker
• 🧪 Testing and debugging tools: Sentry, Hotjar, Postman, Jest, Vue-test-utils, Cypress
• 🚀 Development Practices: Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• ♿ Web accessibility: Wave, AXE, AccessibilityChecker.org
• 🗂️ Version control system: Git, GitHub
• ☁️ Cloud platforms: GCP
• 📝 CMS templating: Wordpress, Umbraco
• 🖌️ Design tools: Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud tools (Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, …)
• 🌐 Languages: Portuguese (native), English (Advanced), French (Intermediate), Spanish (Intermediate)
• 🔗 Other:
  • integration of APIs to fetch and display data from external sources;
  • understanding on website’s speed optimisation and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO);
  • understanding of databases, SQL and their management systems