Career, condensed.
10 years building backend platforms, design systems, and developer tools for early-stage startups and a handful of public companies.
- Founding Engineer · Nimbus Cloud2024 — Present
- Designed multi-region control plane on Kubernetes
- Shipped v1 self-host CLI used by 1,200+ teams in private beta
- Built billing, auth, and observability from scratch
- Senior Engineer · Northwind Labs2021 — 2024
- Led migration of monolith to event-driven services
- Cut p95 latency by 58% via caching and read replicas
- Mentored a team of 8 engineers across two timezones
- Software Engineer · Bright Pixel2017 — 2021
- Owned billing + subscriptions for a $4M ARR SaaS
- Built the CI/CD pipeline on GitHub Actions + AWS
Languages
TypeScriptRustGoPython
Frontend
ReactNext.jsAstroTailwind
Backend
Node.jsPostgreSQLRedistRPC
Infra
DockerKubernetesAWSTerraform
- B.Sc. Computer ScienceTechnical University of Lisbon2012 — 2016
- AWS Solutions Architect — Associate · 2023
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer · 2024
- Open-sourced Nimbus CLI — 2.8k GitHub stars
- Speaker at React Summit 2024
- Top 1% contributor to a popular dev tool, 2023