Hi, I'm Hugo Matos.

I'm a Front-End Web Developer passionate about building beautiful and functional digital experiences.

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About

Biology academic background, research grants, and a decade of freelance front-end work.

Licentiate Degree / BSc in Biology (Licenciatura em Biologia)
1999

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FCUL)

5-year pre-Bologna degree.
Junior Research Fellow (Iniciação à Investigação Científica)
2000 – 2002

FFCUL

Biology and ecology studies of fauna in the Alqueva and Pedrogão reservoir areas.
Research Technician Fellow
2002 – 2003

ICN × CBA / FCUL collaboration

Project for assessing the distribution and relative abundance of Martes martes and Mustela putorius, a collaboration between ICN and CBA/FCUL.
Research Fellow
2008 – 2009

Brisa × CBA / FCUL collaboration

Fellow on the project "Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures for the Negative Impacts of Motorways", a collaboration between Brisa and CBA/FCUL.
Video Editing — Freelance
2012 – 2016

Video editing (Adobe Premiere Pro), color correction and grading (DaVinci Resolve).
Web Development — Freelance
2016 – Present

Building websites with JavaScript frameworks such as Next.js, Astro, and Svelte, and CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS. WordPress website development and management.

Selected Work

A selection of web development projects and business tools focused on efficiency and user experience.

Public Site
Conservation site on the carnivorous mammals of Portugal

Site documenting the ecology, habitats and conservation status of Portugal's carnivorous mammals.

Outcome: A resource that has made information about carnivorous mammals in Portugal more accessible.

Next.jsTailwind CSS
Internal Tool
Internal operations back office for a B2B IT services provider

Front-end build-out of internal screens used by staff to manage the operational workflow.

Outcome: More intuitive internal screens that saved time and reduced operational errors.

Next.jsTailwind CSS
Public Site
WordPress site for the Earth System Science Group at the University of Zurich

Public-facing site for an academic research group, with a content structure for publications and projects.

Outcome: Public-facing site that increased the visibility of the research projects.

WordPressPHP
Internal Tool
Internal support-tiers pricing tool for a B2B provider

Sales-facing tool letting staff configure support packages with conditional service-level options.

Outcome: Enabled fast pricing of complete custom solutions.

Next.jsTailwind CSS

Web Development Skills

JavaScript Frameworks & Libraries

Next.js

Next.js is an open source framework for building React-based web applications.

Astro

Astro is a JavaScript web framework optimized for building fast, content-driven websites.

SvelteKit

SvelteKit is a framework for building web applications using Svelte.

CSS Frameworks

Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is an open source CSS framework for building modern web interfaces.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is an open source CSS framework for responsive front-end web development.

CMS

WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS).

Media Production

Video editing, color grading, and photo editing.

Premiere Pro

DaVinci Resolve

Lightroom

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