Summary
Product engineer with eight years on checkout, booking and payments: pricing, latency, and the edge cases that lose orders.
Experience
Senior product engineer
2021 – nowHalden Pay, Lisbon
- Cut checkout latency from 480 ms to 90 ms by moving pricing to the edge.
- Redesigned the payment step, cutting drop-off from 38% to 21% in one quarter.
- Built the Halden design system in React, now used by 4 product teams.
- Led four engineers through the move from server-rendered checkout to a typed React app.
- Shipped saved payment methods, so repeat orders skip two steps.
- Ran usability testing with 40 merchants before each release; added accessibility audits to every release.
Product engineer
2018 – 2021Brightline Studio, Lisbon
- Built the booking flow used by 40 clinics and cut no-shows with SMS reminders.
- Cut patient sign-up from 11 minutes to 4.
- Brought the booking app to WCAG 2.1 AA, closing 87 accessibility issues.
- Wrote the design-token pipeline the studio still ships with.
Frontend developer
2016 – 2018Atelier Norte, Lisbon
- Built web projects for 30+ clients, from brand sites to booking tools.
Education
BSc Computer Science
2016Universidade de Lisboa
Skills
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Edge functions, Stripe, Accessibility, Design systems