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About Me

The systems, product work, and experience behind the portfolio.

Based in
Dublin, Ireland (also Barcelona, Spain)
Nationality
Brazilian, with Irish citizenship - EU work authorisation, no sponsorship required
Languages
Portuguese (native) · English (C1) · Spanish (B2)
Education
CEFET/RJ, Brazil - Information Technology

Snapshot

Brazilian and based in Dublin. I have been building for the web since 2008, with the last decade spent at DV4 delivering client work for organisations including Virgin Media Television and the Psychological Society of Ireland.

Since 2022, most of my engineering has gone into Xraves, my own ticketing platform for Ireland's underground electronic scene. Building a marketplace solo means solving more than interface problems: payouts, cancellations, refunds, and the operational systems around them.

That is the work I care about: systems that hold up when there is real money and real people on the other side.

Photography and video are long-standing passions. I have worked with both to document travel and everyday stories, bringing the same attention to framing, rhythm, and detail that I bring to product work.

What I work on

Payments & marketplaces

Stripe Connect platforms, direct charges, Express accounts, payout scheduling, and risk logic for moving money safely.

Full-stack product

Next.js and TypeScript end to end: multi-tenant data models, auth, background jobs, and interfaces that stand up to real usage.

Internal tooling & AI

Support platforms, admin systems, and LLM-assisted workflows built to run in production.

Languages & runtime

TypeScript · JavaScript · Node.js · PHP · SQL

Frontend

Next.js · React · Tailwind CSS · HeroUI · Framer Motion

Backend & data

PostgreSQL · Prisma · Auth.js v5 · REST APIs · BullMQ · Redis · pgvector

Payments

Stripe Connect · direct charges · Express accounts · webhooks · payout scheduling

Infrastructure

Vercel · Zerops · Docker · CI/CD

Experience

Dec 2022 - Present

Founder & Full-Stack Engineer

Xraves

Ticketing and payouts platform for Ireland's underground electronic music scene. Built and run solo: marketplace, payments, organiser tooling, and internal support systems. Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Stripe Connect, BullMQ, Auth.js.

Feb 2016 - Present

Full-Stack Engineer

DV4

Client web delivery for Irish organisations including Virgin Media Television, the Psychological Society of Ireland, ISCP and AOTI. Focus on performance, accessibility and content architecture. Next.js, TypeScript, React, PHP, WordPress.

2012 - 2016

Founder and Full Stack PHP Developer

RioSun

Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, WordPress

2011 - 2012

Partner and Full Stack PHP Developer

YouFound

Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, WordPress

2010 - 2011

Technical support internship

Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2008 - 2010

PHP Developer internship

NETbureau

HTML, CSS, PHP

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