Marcos Gurgel, webmagáiver

Intro

I am a full-stack software engineer and technical lead with 23 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.

Greatest Hits

Here’s a sample of my most impactful work...

Other notable projects

iOS Apps

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

  • Disc

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

  • BabyBaby

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

  • Bulas

    Offline access to information on thousands of medications available in Brazil. Over 30,000 copies sold since launch.

  • Genéricos BR

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

Skills

  • 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
  • Playwright
  • CI/CD
  • Jenkins
  • Shell
  • Git
  • Accessibility

Colophon

This page was set in Victor Mono and IBM EGA 8x14. The title is a variation on the ANSI Shadow font for Figlet. The moon graphic is a Code Page 437 rendering of a frame from Georges Méliès’ "Le voyage dans la lune" using Image to ASCII Art. The thumbnails and app icons were converted to Mac 128k format using Dithertron. The reset stylesheet was created by Eric Meyer.

A prior version of this page can be seen here.

No component frameworks were harmed in the making of this website.

Contact

Find me on Linkedin and GitHub or email me at contact@marcos.sh.