Employment History

• Worked for high-profile clients including Airkit (acquired by Salesforce in 2023), Quantic.edu, and Veza. Led the technical strategy and development teams for different projects, from definition to scope planning to development.
• Facilitated seamless collaboration between engineering and design teams by leveraging experience in both areas and ensuring a high quality bar in both product and user experience.
• Validated design deliverables before development, catching issues before-hand that could impact timelines. 
• Provided technical and functional support to product teams in decision-making while optimizing development processes for efficiency to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Conducted one-on-one mentoring sessions, performed performance reviews and facilitated career development for team members.
• Used a diverse skill set to contribute and share knowledge across multiple departments, providing insights and support while fostering collaboration and showing the benefits of doing so.

• Contributed to defining, improving and documenting the company design & development processes to follow best pratices.
• Led the technology strategy definition and planning for projects and developed innovative solutions for notable clients including TVCine, KindaHome, and Seaside.
• Designed, developed and fully documented a Shopify-SAP integration system for syncing products and other relevant data between the platforms, its tech stack was: Koa.js for API server; GraphQL for Shopify queries; MongoDB for configuration, logging, and job management; Vue.js for back-office dashboard; Bree.js for cron-like job scheduling.
• Managed multiple teams and clients while ensuring on-time high-quality deliveries and managing expectations, which resulted on higher client trust and on-going relationships.
• Contributed to business growth through crafting client proposals and performing accurate budgeting and time estimations.
• Optimized and managed internal processes, tools and technology infrastructure.

• Defined the product vision, features, road-map and business plan for creating a location-based digital content platform on the web, gaining experience in full-cycle product development, from ideation to market testing.
• Successfully pitched the project and was accepted into a entrepreneurship program, finishing as one of the winners, was also accepted in the Tourism Explorers acceleration program, gaining valuable insights into market fit and product viability.
• Technologically it was an hybrid (native + web) application composed of:
  • Frontend: Ionic Framework with Angular following component-driven development and Apollo GraphQL for Backend communication.
  • Backend: a two-app structure using Elixir for high concurrency and fault-tolerance:
    • API: Phoenix Framework and Absinthe for GraphQL support;
    • Data: Ecto SQL for database interactions with PostgreSQL.
• Designed all the brand visuals including a Design System to ensure consistency.

• Founded a diverse collective of creatives, including developers, designers, and video editors and secured acceptance into an entrepreneurship program, being one of the winners of a €10,000 investment.
• Conceived a professional hub inspired by personal freelancing experiences, addressing the fragmentation of existing platforms. Which was developed with a scalable business model, leveraging client work to fund the platform development while pursuing entrepreneurship opportunities.
• Developed pre-alpha technology serving as a foundation for the Placesum app content creation tools using Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.
• Worked with different clients and delivered projects from Marketing and E-commerce websites to Mobile and web apps, and some graphic and product designs.

• Started as a Graphic Designer and rapidly advanced to lead the web design & development department due to proven expertise and quick growth.
• Contributed heavily to the company’s transition from Flash-based websites to modern HTML5 and JavaScript solutions and elevated the quality standard for web projects, introducing reactive websites with strong SEO performance.
• Led R&D efforts, including the development of a 1st person-like web experience for 3D space exploration that was focused on tourism applications. It used WebGL to be universally accessible via web browsers.

• Delivered over 200 projects for more than 20 clients across various industries and sizes, the work ranged from Web/Custom Development to Systems Integration as well as Product/Graphic Design.
• Achieved a high rate of satisfaction leading to repeat business and referrals, with clients praising the attention to detail, creativity, and technical expertise.