Ricardo Verdugo
Founder, Web Developer at Urban Squid
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Verdugo is a London-based founder and web developer with nine years of hands-on experience building responsive websites, web admin interfaces, and Android apps. He combines front-end skills (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) with back-end PHP work, contributing notable fixes and features to the popular Grav flat-file CMS and its admin plugin, including image watermarking and UX/security improvements. As founder of Urban Squid he pairs client-facing design and mock-up expertise with practical development, and his background in office and hospitality roles shows strong customer communication and operational discipline. An avid gamer who brings the same competitive focus to engineering, he aims to scale his technical craft into a larger company while continuing to learn across web and mobile domains.
9 years of coding experience
Ensino Superior (A level Equivalent), Grade 16 out of 20, Ensino Superior (A level Equivalent), Grade 16 out of 20 at Escola Secundaria Artur GoncalvesBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (21)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
php10
content-management10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
twig10
markdown9
front-end-development9
markdown-it9
html8
css8
testing8
admin8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
getgrav/grav
Mar 2017 - Oct 2021
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo contributed to the Grav CMS by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the application's core functionalities. They refactored code to use the menu function instead of the title for admin pages and added optional options to the noprocess feature, including tests. The user also worked on image manipulation, adding a watermark feature with scaling and positioning options, and they fixed an issue related to JSON output.
cmswiki-engineflat-fileprestashop-modulephp-markdown
getgrav/grav-plugin-admin
May 2017 - Feb 2022
Grav Admin Plugin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo contributed to the Grav Admin Plugin, making enhancements to both the frontend and backend aspects of the application. They added features like classes support to form fields, a security field to the column component, and the on-demand option for the filepicker. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to user permissions for system configuration and made modifications to improve the UI and user experience of the admin interface. These changes involved modifications to Twig templates and JavaScript files.
cmsmarkdown-to-htmlmarkdownuser-interfacediscourse
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