João Bordalo
Full Stack Developer at Freelance, self-employed
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Bordalo is a pragmatic full stack developer and entrepreneur with over two decades in internet technology, combining hands-on programming, systems engineering and multi-year leadership as CIO and founder of agencies like Excentric. He excels at building and scaling digital businesses quickly—turning startups cash-positive within months—while focusing on efficient, maintainable solutions across web, infrastructure and security stacks. Comfortable from HTML/CSS/JS and Ruby/PHP to Linux/FreeBSD ops and networking protocols, he pairs technical depth with usability and accessibility sensibilities. A longtime advocate for internationalization, he contributes localization fixes to widely used open-source projects such as the React Native Bitcoin wallet BlueWallet, improving UX for non-English users. Based in Lisbon, his personal mantra—valuing time to do what you love—informs a leadership style that favors clever, productivity-first approaches often mistaken for “laziness.”
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Universidade do Minho
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Github Skills (18)
translation10
internationalization10
localization10
react-native9
javascript8
react7
truffle6
nginx6
materialize6
meteor6
ethereum6
progressive-web-apps6
css6
bitcoin6
bitcoins6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
BlueWallet/BlueWallet
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:João primarily focused on localizing the BlueWallet application for the Portuguese language (pt_PT). This involved fixing translation errors, correcting typos, and ensuring accurate and contextually appropriate wording within the user interface. Furthermore, the user added or updated translations for various languages, demonstrating an ongoing effort to improve the application's internationalization support. The user's contributions directly enhance the accessibility and usability of the application for non-English speakers.
reactbuilt-with-reactreact-nativeios-androidblockchain
bordalix/helm-wallet
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 79 pushes in 11 months
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