Summary
Rita Costa is a frontend web developer based in Leiria, Portugal, with roughly eight years of professional experience building responsive, user-focused websites and web apps. She has deep WordPress expertise complemented by modern frontend frameworks (Vue, React) and hands-on backend integrations (Express, Node.js, APIs) demonstrated across e-commerce, SaaS, and mobile-adjacent projects. Rita has delivered scalable features like push-notification systems, real-time PHC–WordPress syncs, and custom WordPress plugins that bridge frontend polish with backend reliability. Comfortable across the stack, she also crafts marketing automation and AI-driven scripts that streamline communication and ops—work that shows a knack for turning repetitive tasks into automated workflows. Her background includes accessibility-focused mobile work and low-level hosting/DNS recovery, revealing practical operational skills beyond UI code. Colleagues would describe her as a pragmatic builder who balances aesthetics, performance, and measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
IT Systems Technician - Professional Certification Information Technology, IT Systems Technician - Professional Certification Information Technology at Fundação Escola Profissional de Leiria
Professional Certification Information Technology, Professional Certification Information Technology at Ag. Escolas Marrazes
IT Specialist, IT Specialist at IEFP - Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional
Portuguese, English