thebeachshorts,this muchachocan’tswim ... Hello,

I’m Bruno, was born in Andorra (no, no parlo català), but came to Portugal from a young age and lived in Braga up until now.

I’m a laid back guy, very talkative when I feel confortable, usually patient and with a natural curiosity about things. I love nature and animals, so aside from work related stuff you can find me taking a stroll in the nearest woods and trying to pet any animal that crosses my path (except spiders, their size is proportional to my running speed). I usually carry a more serious face if I’m focused, but don’t worry and feel free to approach me anytime, I’ll be smiling in no time!

Here are some curiosities about me:

Every Sunday morning I’ll walk from Maximinos to Bom Jesus and back.

I’ll say yes to pizza anytime.

If by any chance you give me any apple & cinnammon dessert you’ll have a very good friend!

I enjoy cold and rainy days, and absolutely hate hot days.

I’m a keyboard guy.

Growing up I would spend a lot of time reading and building stuff with Legos/K’nex, so I naturally had more affinity with areas where I could let my natural curiosity go a bit check free.

I started with sciences, studying Biochemistry to be precise, taking every opportunity to frequent python workshops. Eventually I did my Master’s in Molecular Biology and had some jobs along the way, where I had my first contact with Issuu to share science articles. The itch about web development was ever-growing and due to some unfortunate events I decided to pull the switch and that a career change was in order.

So, I stuck to it and started learning web development. After I had had my first breakthrough in the area and while looking for a job, my sister, currently in a bakery course, wanted me (the tech guy you know?...) to help her with a blog and something to share some of her fancy recipes. Issuu came to mind from the old science days, I liked the platform and the flipbook feature, and upon visiting the website I was thrilled to know there were vacancies for software engineering, so... here I am, excited to start and to give my contribution to the team!

I’m not bound to any specific music genre and, truth be told, I listen to almost anything. I like more energetic music genres, however when relaxing or in the need of focus, I’ll often go with more calm melodies, be it slow jazz, lofi or even just a crackling fireplace. Check out below some of my most listened genres and bands:

This can go from Pendulum, to Prodigy, Daft Punk, Infected Mushroom, Knife Party, Scandroid...

Yes I listen to AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Queen, Kiss, Linkin Park and so on, but also like some more recent groups like Airbourne, Royal Republic, The Pretty Reckless, Myiavi...