Pedro Gomes

About Uphold:

Uphold digitizes money to provide instant and secure global financial services. Uphold serves 184+ countries, across 20+ currencies and metals with cross-border remittance and Virtual Mastercard enabled ecommerce for members around the world.

Since launch in 2015, Uphold has powered more than US$1 billion in transactions.

During this time, I've worked on 2 major projects: 1) Working for a company aiming to provide useful and meaningful financial advisory, I was asked to build an emotion tracking application and a reporting dashboard to track, display and compare results from the given experience to the company advisors. The experience application tracks the user financial situation, choices and preferences. Both application's data layer were retrieved from a previously built API. I used React to build the experience app from scratch from the design sketches into a real application. Regarding the dashboard, AngularJS was used since the project was already created by another developer. I was responsible to upgrade it and maintain the legacy code. 2) On the second project, I was asked to build a dashboard and mobile app for a call center company. The app is used by agents to call potential customers to sell the company offers and campaigns. The entire app was developed with React Native which connects with an API via custom developed SDK. The dashboard is responsible to manage and monitor every agent, offer and campaigns and it was built entirely in React. I was responsible not only for the development but also it's deployment and maintenance. Those were 2 of the most rewarding project I was able to work on and gave me lots of experience, not only in code development but also in project management and dealing with client expectations, needs and doubts.

Web developer for jumia.com, the largest e-commerce website on Africa using the following tecnologies/tools:
- PHP (Zend and Yii)
- Javascript (Node.js, Browserify, Gulp, Hogan.js)
- SASS
- MySQL
- Solr