The website of Marcos Gurgel, webmagáiver.

I am a full-stack software engineer and technical lead with 22 years of experience, and a focus on usability, accessibility, and internationalisation.

I have led the delivery of hundreds of projects in over 40 languages to more than 700 million viewers across all continents. I have written code in most major programming languages and frameworks, including Node and Express, React, Next.js, Svelte, Ruby on Rails, PHP and Laravel, Objective-C, and Swift.

I am a Brazilian-British national born in Rio de Janeiro, fluent in English and Portuguese.

For the past eight years, I have been developing websites for the BBC. Here’s some of my most impactful work...

• Covid Map and Tracker. The single most visited page in the history of BBC Online, and the first BBC News story to be published simultaneously in all 42 World Service languages. Featured in the exhibit "100 Objects that Made the BBC"
• Pre-election and live coverage of the 2023, 2022 and 2021 Local Elections and 2019 General Elections in the UK, as well as over 20 electoral processes in the US, Brazil, India, Sri-Lanka, Kenya, Nigeria, among others.
• Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed. A series of stories published in coordination with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
• Channel migrants tragedy: Terrifying final hours of their fatal journey. An investigation into the worst migrant drowning in the English Channel that creatively combined maps, audio and graphics to tell the personal stories of the victims.

• Other notable projects

  • Is your area vulnerable to extreme heat?
  • Eurovision 2023: A guide to every country's song
  • India inflation calculator
  • Who is rich in Brazil?
  • The food that fuels Olympic marathon champions
  • Covid vaccines: How fast is progress around the world?
  • How genetics is rebuilding the journey of the first humans to America

In a past life, I released a few iOS apps of my own...

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  Disc

  A beautifully minimalistic puzzle game, done in under a month as I waited for my UK visa application to be approved.

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  BabyBaby

  A fun way to choose a name for your baby, featuring meanings, origins, filters and sharing on social networks.

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  Bulas

  Offline access to information on the most popular medications in Brazil. Over 30,000 copies sold since launch.

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  Genéricos BR

  A guide for medications and their generic equivalents. Most overall downloaded app in the Brazilian App Store for more than a month. Over 400,000 downloads since launch.

Here are some of the tech and processes I know well...

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript (ES6-ES8)
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Express
• React
• Preact
• Svelte
• Next.js
• Babel
• Sass
• Webpack
• Mustache
• Handlebars
• Ruby on Rails
• PHP
• PHPUnit
• Laravel
• C
• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Docker
• Swift
• Objective-C
• SwiftUI
• UIKit
• Cocoa Touch
• Xcode
• MySQL
• SQLite
• MongoDB
• CouchDB
• Redis
• Memcached
• RESTful APIs
• TDD
• BDD
• Cucumber
• Cypress
• Jest
• CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Shell
• Git
• Accessibility
• Agile

How do you pronounce your surname?

Goohr-zhel. The second g sounds like the s in visual.

What is a webmagáiver?

It's like this guy, but for the web.

What did you use to build this website?

Just good, old, hand-written HTML5 and CSS3.

Find me at Linkedin and GitHub.