Marco Monteiro
Chief Technology Officer at Agência Monstros
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
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Top SchoolMarco Monteiro is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of hands-on web development experience and a strong background in PHP-based back-end architectures. He has grown from webdesigner to leading digital departments, driving CI/CD, architectural improvements, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure web solutions for clients and internal products. Founder of multiple ventures including My Parting Note and freelance consultancy MarcoMonteiro.net, he blends product thinking with engineering rigor and recently deepened his security expertise with postgraduate studies in Cyber Security. An active open-source contributor, Marco has improved Portuguese translations for the widely used CodeIgniter4 framework, showing attention to internationalization and framework internals beyond routine feature work. Based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, he also teaches frontend and server programming courses—demonstrating a commitment to mentorship and knowledge transfer. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who balances quality, delivery velocity, and clear communication across multidisciplinary teams.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Secundário Artes, Secundário Artes at Escola Secundária de TondelaBachelor of Design and Multimedia Design and Multimedia, Bachelor of Design and Multimedia Design and Multimedia at Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra - Escola Superior de EducaçãoPostgraduate Degree Cyber Security, Postgraduate Degree Cyber Security at Universidade Europeia
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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codeigniter
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Github Skills (9)
internationalization10
localization10
codeigniter10
php8
html6
docker6
docker-compose6
javascript6
mysql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codeigniter4/translations
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
System message translations for CodeIgniter4
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Marco's primary contribution involved improving and updating language translations for the CodeIgniter4 project. They focused on the Portuguese language, correcting typos and refining existing translations within various language files. Additionally, the user updated copyright information across multiple language files, demonstrating a focus on maintaining the project's internationalization and ensuring accurate representation across different language versions. These changes spanned several core areas like database interactions, email functionality, and image handling, indicating a broad understanding of the framework's components.
codeigniter
mpmont/ci4-snippets
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
Codeigniter 4 snippets for Sublime Text 3
Contributions:7 releases, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
codeignitersublime-textci4-snippetssublime-text-3
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