Hugo Sousa
Engineering Manager at Plex, Inc.
Seixal, Setúbal, Portugal
Summary
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RockstarHugo Sousa is an Engineering Manager at Plex with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience, specializing in iOS and cross-platform mobile development. He progressed from individual contributor roles—building apps at SAPO and NoShape and teaching Objective-C—to leading teams and shaping product quality and experience for Apple devices. At Plex he combines product-minded technical leadership with a practical engineering background, shipping accessible, user-focused features (evidenced by his open-source HCSStarRatingView work adding half-star support and accessibility improvements). Based in Seixal, Portugal, he brings both managerial experience and continued coding chops, mentoring engineers while still contributing to mobile UI components. Outside work he balances life as a husband and pet parent and brings a playful nerdy curiosity (and a fondness for caramel) to collaborative teams.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (12)
objective-c10
ios10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
accessibility9
ui-design8
itunes6
nsurlsessiondownloadtask6
nsurlsession6
iphone6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hsousa/HCSStarRatingView
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Simple star rating view for iOS written in Objective-C
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:68 commits, 12 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of an iOS star rating view. They implemented support for half-star ratings, added image-based star rendering, and improved accessibility features. Furthermore, the user addressed several bug fixes and made optimizations related to the view's appearance and behavior. The changes included updates to the sample project to demonstrate new features.
objective-ccocoapodsratingswiftios
hsousa/butitworks.com
Oct 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
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