Gui Andrade was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
He started his career as a Web Developer in 1996 and naturally developed his knowledge of Web Production as circumstances changed due to technological advances and very often as a consequence of the Browser Wars.
He has worked for a number of well established Web Studios such as Lazo and ADDX (Former Agencia X).
When Lazo was launched it figured among the three most important Web Studios in Latin America, and was one of the biggest in the whole of the Americas.
He also worked with the now extinct Neubauten, and Rubinger Internet Studios that at the time (1998-2001) were trying to output Avant-garde designs and concepts, including a sizable amount of Flash animations and other multimedia resources in order to create more lively experiences to the user; In the process trying to use as much CSS as possible, despite the table based techniques used at the time.
His role in the production team has always been as a Front-End Developer using (X)HTML/CSS and JavaScript with great commitment to Accessibility and Usability, following W3C and other Standards.
During the course of the last 2 years Gui has had the opportunity to work as a Front-End Developer at Loopo Ltd building medium to large scale Websites and applications using Python/Django with a lot of exposure to Django Template Language, CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries.
He is based in London where he has lived since 2002.