Hugo Cárdenas
Freelance Design & Development
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Cárdenas is a versatile design-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience crafting pixel-perfect web and mobile experiences from Helsinki. He blends hands-on front-end engineering (React, TypeScript) and full-stack work with product-minded design leadership, having driven design processes and shipped features at MeetingPackage and Wolt. As a freelancer and former consultant he builds practical, user-centered solutions that simplify complex workflows like booking and merchant onboarding, while also producing marketing and print assets. An active open-source contributor, Hugo has improved the Buttercup cross-platform password vault’s UI, menus and cloud integrations—showing attention to localization and UX detail. Collected through roles from startups to enterprise, his work emphasizes maintainable code, thoughtful UX, and going the extra mile to make interactions feel a little magical.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at Aalto University
Spanish, English, Finnish
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
electron10
react10
front-end-development9
rails-i18n9
ember-i18n9
i18n-js9
uid9
user-interface8
encryption8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
password-manager8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
buttercup/buttercup-desktop
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 42 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily focused on front-end development within the project. They updated the application menu structure and translated menu items into a nested, full English configuration. They also updated the codebase to reflect these locale changes across the UI. The user's contributions include modifications to the entry form, tree-view component, entry view and icons. They additionally updated the WebDAV cloud source component and added new entry icon functionality.
passwordselectronbuttercuppassword-generatorvault-secrets
hugo-cardenas/personal-website
May 2021 - Feb 2022
My personal website
Contributions:23 commits, 72 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
reactnextjs
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