
The web needs you. twitter.com/okbel/status/1…
Work Experience
Vercel is a cloud deployment platform for frontend developers. Currently, I am leading the Solutions Engineering Team. Our team works closely with developers to help them ship performant solutions to the web.
Earlysquad is a multidisciplinary studio focused on strong technological foundations for the web. Clients include: FoundMyFitness, OpenZeppelin, Pagina12.
Projects:
Genetics Report for FoundMyFitness. A comprehensive genomic analysis using data from 23andMe and Ancestry.com. foundmyfitness.com/genetics
Led the Frontend Engineering team at The Coral Project. During my time at Mozilla, I focused on Talk, an open source commenting platform now powering popular news media sites. Acquired by Vox Media in 2018.
The Coral Project is a unique collaboration between the Mozilla Foundation, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Wellbin is a healthcare startup focused on electronic health records using FHIR/HL7 standards.
At Wellbin.co, me and my team worked on a tool to visualize DICOM files (CT Scans, MRI, XRays, etc.) in the web and on the main web application to visualize lab studies.
Worked with Johnson & Johnson, PwC, Equinox, L'Oreal, RGA.com and others developing javascript web platforms that included backend and frontend engineering.
Technologies used: Node.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js, SASS, jQuery, Drupal 8, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
Worked on Electronic Health Records Systems that included full-stack development in PHP, javascript and PL/SQL (Oracle). I worked on the Triage and Epicrisis projects that helped improve emergency room times.
Side Projects
Storefront kit for high-performance e-commerce sites.
Commenting Platform from Vox Media / Mozilla - NYT / Wapo
Speaking
An overview over the history of the Web compared to nowadays modern web applications.
Detailed workflows and techniques on how to build resilient web applications at scale while using good practices. curcio.be/talks/modern-solutions
The use of cutting-edge technologies like WebAssembly with Rust and the WebXR Device API.
AR/VR and Machine Learning with web clients using WebAssembly.
www.youtube.com/watch!v=qJxy2LR0kAI
backendlessconf.com/
News & Media is a complex model for web applications. Ads, paywalls, bots, and comment boxes are usually detrimental to the user experience. This affects engagement and breaks the user’s trust globally. This talk goes into how modern technologies can help us create better applications and how to improve the user experience in journalism.
Talk and Workshop: mediaparty2017.sched.com/speaker/belencurcio
GraphQL is a powerful query language for APIs and it is used by teams of all sizes to power mobile applications, websites, and more. This talk introduces the technology and goes into API core concepts like state, query compilation and databases. Also, covers the benefits of using GraphQL, using GraphQL in Production and explores the anatomy of GraphQL queries,
mutations and types.
Talk: youtube.com/watch!v=MqIw9-39rnU
Slides: curcio.be/talks/you-need-graphql
React.js changed the way we build applications. This talk goes into the foundations of React and some frameworks built on top of this library, like Next.js. Also, covers concepts like: Single Page Application, Client Side Rendering and Server Side Rendering.
Volunteering
Born out of the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers Community is a network of inspiring young people under the age of 30 working together to address local, regional and global challenges. Our primary goal is to have impact through our initiatives and to help others in the Shapers community as well as outside of it to grow their world-changing projects.