Freelance full-stack developer · Portugal
I'm Rui Bordadágua, a developer with 8+ years building real products — the app on your customers' phones, the website they visit, and the systems behind both. One person, from first idea to launch and beyond.
Services
Every app or website has two sides: what people see, and what makes it work underneath. Most developers specialise in one. I build both.
Above the surface
Planned with you, built, and published on the App Store and Google Play.
From a site that presents your business to one your customers sign in to.
Back-offices to manage orders, content, contracts or expenses.
Below the surface
Where your information lives — protected, and in sync across every phone and browser.
The logic that's unique to you — like splitting one order across several wineries.
Links to the services you already use: invoicing, maps, email or AI.
Because I work on both sides of the waterline, you get one person who sees the whole picture — no messages lost between teams, and no “that's a server problem”.
We shape the idea together, I build every part — app, website, server — and take care of the launch. You talk to the same person the whole way.
New features, maintenance and bringing older code up to date. Or a rescue: crashes, critical bugs or a launch that never quite happens — I stabilise it and get it out the door.
Portfolio
Apps, websites and the systems behind them — built directly for clients or through agencies and consultancies.
A marketplace that lets travellers in Portugal buy wine from different wineries in a single order and have it shipped — it even works out how many bottles they can take on the flight home. I work on the whole product, directly with the client: the iPhone and Android apps and the server behind them.
A web platform a company's HR department uses to manage contracts and process expenses. I built most of what people see and use in the browser, helped design the screens and shape how the system fits together, and built one of its server services.
Two news apps, through Link Consulting. I led the iOS side of Matterz News, built from scratch, and stabilised Al Ekhbariya — the channel's 24/7 live-streaming app — for its first App Store release in November 2021.
Apps for Sonae Sierra's shopping malls — around 30 across Europe. With the agency Research & Design, I adapted a shared codebase to each mall, published the apps on the App Store and maintained them.
A platform Zurich insurance agents use to manage their portfolio. I fixed bugs in the iPhone and Android apps, built new features and handled publishing on both stores.
An iPhone app for asylum-seekers in Israel and the people assisting them, built in partnership with Tetrapi.
Also worked on: Pisca Pisca (an app for professionals), My Vitalunch (Vitacress) and My Christmas List (Deutsche Bank Portugal).
Experience
Full-stack developer: iPhone and Android apps, web platforms and the servers behind them, often working directly with the client. As assistant head I also prepared technical tests, ran technical interviews and wrote commercial proposals.
iOS developer
Mobile developer · My Zurich
iOS developer · Salaam, with Tetrapi
iOS developer · My Vitalunch for iPhone and iPad
iOS developer · My Christmas List
Digital agency · iOS developer for the Sonae Sierra shopping-mall apps
Software engineer · the company website and an online training platform
About
I started on the web in 2007, moved to iPhone apps in 2013, and today work across the whole product — apps, websites and the systems behind them. I'm used to owning it all: planning, building, launching, and looking after it once it's live.
I've also sat on the other side of the table. I've prepared technical tests and interviewed developers, written commercial proposals, managed a small family insurance agency and taught a game-development course with Scratch. So I care about what a product has to achieve, not just how it's built.
I work remotely from Odemira, in Portugal's Alentejo, and I'm comfortable collaborating with clients in other time zones.
Tell me what you're building and where you are — an idea, a prototype, or an app or website that's already live.