Paul Gay
Director at Cactusoft
Setúbal, Portugal
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Top SchoolPaul Gay is a director and hands-on Microsoft-stack developer with 25 years of experience building high-volume e-commerce systems, currently leading Cactusoft from Setúbal, Portugal. He specializes in Blazor Server, ASP.NET Core, WASM and PWAs, and has architected solutions and code that have powered thousands of sites and generated hundreds of millions in revenue. As a founder-practitioner, he blends long-term product ownership with day-to-day coding and MS SQL Server expertise, shipping reliable, scalable web platforms. Based in Portugal with British citizenship and Portuguese residency (working toward EU passport), he operates remotely and hybrid across European markets. His background in mechanical engineering and Mandarin studies reflects a curious, methodical approach to problem solving and cross-cultural collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BEng, Mechanical & Materials Engineering, BEng, Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Loughborough UniversityMandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at SOAS University of LondonMandarin Chinese, Mandarin Chinese at University of Westminster
German, Chinese, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (74)
mvc10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
wake-on-lan10
iis10
umbraco10
dotnet10
sql10
andorid10
foundation10
pwabuilder10
sql-server10
pwa-starter-kit10
csharp10
discourse10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cactusoft/kartris
Jan 2013 - Dec 2022
A powerful responsive ecommerce system capable of running sites with well over a million products, built with ASP.NET, SQL Server in Visual Basic / Web Forms
Contributions:826 commits, 3 PRs, 298 pushes in 10 years
ecommerceresponsive-designmillionvisualbasicdiscourse
pwa-builder/PWABuilder
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
The simplest way to create progressive web apps across platforms and devices. Start here. This repo is home to several projects in the PWABuilder family of tools.
Contributions:1 comment in 1 year 1 month
manifestapp-storepwa-starter-kitmicrosoft-storepwa-starter
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