Ray Q
Founde at Boat
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Q is a seasoned founder and full-stack product leader based in Lisbon with over 25 years designing and engineering interactive digital experiences and 12 years of focused industry experience. He combines hands-on development, product strategy and team building—having founded multiple ventures (Q Studio, Willow, Boat) and scaled technology and design teams through CTO and Head of Product roles. Ray has deep expertise in WordPress ecosystems (author of Willow and noted as a WordPress Shaper) and a track record of turning design-led ideas into resilient production systems for mission-driven organizations. Comfortable shifting between code, UX and strategy, he excels at solving real customer problems while preparing startups for growth and investment. Less obvious: his background in time-based media and long history of building bespoke CMS and template engines gives him a rare fusion of creative discipline and engineering craft.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Visual Communication, Time Based Media, B.A Visual Communication, Time Based Media at Kent Institute of Art & Design
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (56)
jquery10
buddypress10
wordpress10
metadata10
iframe10
custom-fields10
wordpress-plugin10
advanced-custom-fields10
woocommerce-api10
csv10
wordpress-media10
recaptcha10
xlsx9
wordpress-admin9
audit9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qstudio/willow
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
Willow ~ WordPress logic-less template engine.
Contributions:30 releases, 8 PRs, 136 pushes in 1 year 5 months
template-enginetemplateazerothcorewordpresslogic-less
qstudio/q
Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:36 releases, 445 commits, 398 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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