Edgard Z.

About Me

Edgard is an awesome front-end developer with strong ReactJS skills. He worked with the world's leading digital production companies over the years, delivering cutting-edge, award-winning projects to prominent clients like Google NBC Universal, EA, Chevrolet, MTV, Facebook, Adidas, LG, and more. He is interested in offering a high quality result but at the same time being a true team player.

Frontend

Backend

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
React JS Developer
2017 - Present (8 years)

Create and develop innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

Jam3
Senior Front-end Developer Contractor
2016 - Present (9 years)
  • Developed an engaging and socially-integrated responsive web application for MTV Movie Awards 2016 using JSPM and ES6.

  • Helped develop a CMS for Facebook's Branding Resources Center using React.js as part of a mid-sized team.

  • Created an interactive hi-res image viewer for Google's Datacenter Murals Project using Node.js/ES2015.

  • Contributed to the production of a platform that allows the National Film Board of Canada to manage and present all its projects over different production phases using React and Redux.

  • Technologies: Node, React/Redux, JavaScript/ES2015/JSX, HTML5, CSS3/SASS, Webpack

Unit9
Senior Front-end Developer Contractor
2013 - Present (12 years)
  • NBC Universal wanted to create an interactive second screen experience showcasing the new SyFy series ‘The Magicians.’ The challenge on the technological side was building standalone games for each of the 13 episodes. Each game required different tech, like AngularJS, CoffeScript, SASS, HTML5 video, Canvas, WebGL, and CSS3 2D and 3D animations.

  • Created a responsive and interactive poll, translated for users from all around the world, using AngularJS. In the poll, Chevy posed the question to consumers: what would happen if you put down your phone and looked up?

  • Developed the Adidas Challenge: All or Nothing, an interactive scavenger hunt created to extend the hype beyond the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Players participated using Street View to find clues scattered around the globe. Each quest had its starting point somewhere in Brazil, with a clue leading them to their first checkpoint. Players are tested with football trivia and win the next clue in the quest, getting one step closer to the next checkpoint, if they answer correctly. This website was developed using BackboneJS.

  • Built Johnson's Baby "Hello, My Name Means," which captures real-time data from the world’s top social media sites to predict the future of a baby’s name. It is an HTML5 microsite that takes advantage of complex APIs to compile and analyze large data sets from several social sources. It shows you where the name has been, where it is now, and where it is going to be. It was developed using CoffeeScript and BackboneJS.

  • Created a site for dog food brand Cesar that enabled users to upload a photo of their dog and discover its breed. We used the Wolfram Cloud API to gather the data about each dog breed and AngularJS to present the results to the user in a fun and interactive way.

  • Technologies: Node, Backbone, Angular 1 and 2, JavaScript/CoffeeScript/Typescript/ES2015, HTML5, CSS3/SASS/PreCSS, Gulp/Grunt

Bucapé Company
Head of Technology, Recomind App
2010 - 2013 (3 years)
  • Oversaw the entire cloud Infrastructure and application development of Recomind, a startup acquired by Buscapé in 2010. This was a very interesting period. Since everything was built from scratch, it allowed me to learn a lot about Infrastructure, scalability, back-end, front-end, and mobile development.

  • Technologies: AWS, Nginx, Redis, Node, Backbone, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3/LESS, Objective-C, Grunt

Showcase

Front End Developer
Front End Developer
  • Talenti allows users to connect their social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) to a 'flavorizer' which analyzes their posts.

  • The flavorizer generates a unique flavor based on the analyzed data.

  • The flavor is visually represented through a WebGL animation that transforms into the generated flavor.

Front End Developer
Front End Developer
  • Develops a mobile website for the brand Cesar.

  • Utilizes image recognition technology to identify dog breeds and create a parallax animated story.

  • Focuses on engaging users with a humorous narrative about dog origins.

Front End Developer
Front End Developer
  • The tool 'Hello, My Name Means' analyzes real-time data from social media to predict the future of a baby's name.

  • It explores the history of names and their potential meanings to inform parents.

  • The project aims to provide insights into the future of names and their significance.

Front End Developer
Front End Developer
  • Chevy's quiz assesses user tech attachment.

  • Users are categorized as 'The Uncorrupted' or 'The Obsessive' based on their responses.

  • The quiz provides feedback on their level of tech dependence.

Front End Developer
Front End Developer
  • Developed an interactive scavenger hunt to extend the hype surrounding the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

  • Utilized Google for Adidas to power the virtual quest, featuring clues found using StreetView.

  • The scavenger hunt was set in Brazil.

Front End Developer
Front End Developer
  • Develops an interactive second screen experience for 'The Magicians'.

  • The website aims to enhance fan understanding of the series' characters and magic universe.

  • Provides special cult content based on episode airtimes.

Education

Education
Research grant for development of robotic low-cost systems in Robotics
PUC - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001 - 2002 (1 year)
Education
Technologist's degree in Electromechanics
ETESC - Santa Cruz - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999 - 2001 (2 years)