Joel Calado
Web Developer at UPASD
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Calado is a seasoned Web Developer with 17 years of experience building web applications from Lisbon, Portugal, and a strong background in Ruby on Rails, Ruby, and HTML. He has a long tenure at UPASD where he combines pragmatic engineering with a focus on usable front-end interfaces and incremental improvements. Joel contributes to open-source projects—most notably enhancing the UI and statistics dashboard of the popular VDO.Ninja WebRTC tool—demonstrating attention to user-facing detail and real-time performance info. Continuously expanding his toolset, he is exploring C#, JavaScript, and Kotlin to bridge backend and client-side gaps. A graduate of Instituto Superior Técnico, he pairs formal technical grounding with a practical, hands-on approach to shipping maintainable software.
18 years of coding experience
Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
128reputation
15kreached
5answers
12questions
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
webrtc10
obs9
360-video8
website-design8
site-design8
ruby-on-rails6
wysiwyg6
activeadmin6
ckeditor6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
steveseguin/vdo.ninja
Jun 2020 - May 2022
VDO.Ninja is a powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 102 commits, 62 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the user interface (UI) of the VDO.Ninja project. Their work focused on refining the UI for the reusable invite generator, including grouping settings, increasing margins and padding, and adding new UI elements. These changes involved modifications to the `index.html` and `main.css` files. Furthermore, the user implemented a new statistics UI, adding new visual elements to better communicate connection and performance information to the user.
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jcalado/jcalado.github.io
Jan 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:86 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
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