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Rafael Cacilhas.

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Curriculum - or the road so far

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Education

Universidade Federal de Viçosa - 2011 / 2021

Studied Physics from undergrad until my Ph.D. Worked several years with scientific simulations.

Labenu - 2021

A six-month course on the fundamentals of web development. Learned how to use Javascript for the front-end and back-end and learned the fundamentals of React.

Experience

Quorum - 2023 (current)

Im a software engineer at Quorum, a public policies company. We use React and Django and I work mainly on building new components and mantaining our Design System.

ContaJá Contabilidade - 2022

Worked at ContaJá and learned the basics of Vue and Angular 2

Vision Root - 2022

A small software house, in here I learned a lot of React and a little bit of a lot of things, like Nest, Next and Laravel.

QikServe - 2021

In here I had my first experience with a production app and learned the basics of building for the web using Angular and Java.

Skills

Scientific simulations

I have a Ph.D in Physics and have experience on simulating complex networks and magnetic systems.

Bootstrap, Tailwind

Soon enough I met the famous CSS frameworks and I quite like them!

Photoshop, Figma and stuff like that

I started messing around in Photoshop and Corel Drawn when I was 12. Today its like second nature

Gaming

I have always been interest in making games so I have been studying this subject along the years. When I was a teen I messed a lot with Flash / ActionScript and Im always studying the source-code of my favorite games . I also have some professional experience making little games in Javascript using a framework called Phaser.