José Pedro Cardoso

I currently work at XING as a Senior Android Engineer helping in developing new features, fixing bugs and maintaining the app. Since the beginning we already finished modularisation, done some important code refactoring (Java to Kotlin and architectural changes) and improve test coverage.

My path at Farfetch started small, fixing bugs and developing small features, but I managed to prove myself by showing the high quality standards of my work methods that I was used to. Since then, I’ve developed a lot of new and important features, helped to improve the app’s architecture introducing RxJava, participated in each quarter’s estimates of work and integrated new third-party libraries.

My job at NDrive was helping maintain the company’s main product and developing new modules. Since I’ve been there, I’ve worked with new patterns, optimising the existing product and developing new features, respecting at the same time the high quality standards the company demands for the product. I’ve developed custom UI components using third-party libraries, exploring the Google’s available services and social networks APIs.

My role was to develop Android applications from scratch or working in teams improving and maintaining other apps. I developed a stock market application, where the user can buy and sell stocks and follow the stock market, for transactions, consults and managing personal finances, helped finish some existing apps, refactoring and optimising some components and also developing a social banking app, where the user can chat with other app users and have access to standard net-banking features.

My role at Shortcut was mainly as a mobile developer, more specifically for the Android platform. I helped refactoring an existing application for elder people that would allow them to use a smartphone in a more simple way. I was also responsible for developing the new water company’s mobile app (Android) to be used by the workers in their daily routine. Between this two projects I was learning cross-platform development and website development.

I worked during my Master’s Thesis for PT Inovação e Sistemas developing a webservice that could provide an advertisement for a TV content using different context sources. Then I moved to a new division where I was asked to implement a data mining algorithm that I had built specifically for providing ads based on the context information they had at their disposal. The goal here was to improve the distribution of ads based on client’s needs and user’s preferences.