- Role in the project
- Co-founder and programming teacher
- Based in
- Espinho, Portugal
- Project period
- 2016 — 2017
Software engineer and co-initiator of Hacking Heroes, who taught the Portuguese participant group in Espinho.
Contribution to Hacking Heroes
With Dominik Kościelak, João shaped the project's approach to teaching programming as practical, collaborative work rather than an abstract school subject. He led the Portuguese participant group and contributed to the curriculum and the Porto hackathon.
During Hacking Heroes
João Matos is a software engineer with eight years of professional experience recorded in the 2016 project documents. His work focused on web development, often remotely, across projects with teams in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Before Hacking Heroes, he worked on web projects at IDG UK, including pcadvisor.co.uk and macworld.co.uk, and later worked at shopcade.com, where he managed a team of developers, designers and salespeople. At the time of Hacking Heroes, he was lead frontend developer at EF.com, responsible for team-building and researching technologies for responsive, user-friendly websites. He also had several years of experience teaching individual mathematics and computer science lessons to children aged 10 to 14, and was taking a course towards the Certificado de Competências Pedagógicas organised by the Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional in Portugal.
Today
For current work, projects and ways to connect with João, use his LinkedIn profile.