Crafting Digital Experiences from Cape Verde to Europe
Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying scalable systems across backend, frontend, and cloud-native environments. Currently at CriaAI, I'm architecting Legal Copilot — an AI-powered platform that automates mass production of legal documents for high-volume law firms across Brazil.
My expertise spans serverless architectures on AWS, Clean/Hexagonal Architecture patterns, and multi-LLM integration with providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini. I work across the full stack with React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, and have led teams building everything from mobile apps to microservices.
Previously, I managed a development office in Mindelo, Cape Verde, overseeing end-to-end project delivery and cross-functional teams across multiple concurrent products. I'm passionate about AI systems, cloud-native applications, and distributed architecture.
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Professional Journey
Flowster Workflow Automation Platform
Senior Fullstack Developer
Oct 2025 - Present
Architecting and building core features across the full stack of an enterprise visual workflow automation platform — from a custom React graph editor to .NET backend services and AI-powered workflow generation.
- Implemented a production-grade Manhattan edge routing engine for the React Flow-based workflow designer with custom A* pathfinding, visibility graph optimization, and obstacle avoidance
- Built comprehensive admin API in .NET 10 with multi-tenant customer management, user provisioning, and Keycloak OAuth2 integration across 15+ REST endpoints
- Engineered AI-powered workflow generation using FastAPI, LangChain, and RAG with Qdrant vector database, enabling XAML workflow creation from natural language prompts
- Created a self-learning AI agent system with LangGraph that captures validation failures and applies lessons to improve generation accuracy over time
- Implemented full-stack key-value store feature from React UI through Redux state to .NET backend, with syntax highlighting for PowerShell, Python, Bash, JSON, and YAML
- Refactored WebSocket architecture for per-tab isolation and built real-time collaboration features for concurrent workflow editing
Legal Copilot
Software Engineer
Oct 2025 - Present
Architecting and developing Legal Copilot, an AI-powered platform for automated mass production of legal documents, serving high-volume law firms across Brazil.
- Designed a multi-LLM integration layer (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini) with structured prompt engineering for document analysis, checklist answering, and variable extraction from legal PDFs
- Built serverless backend on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and SQS using Python with Clean Architecture (Hexagonal)
- Implemented comprehensive testing suite with Pytest for backend and Cypress for frontend
- Integrated Firebase/Firestore for document storage and AWS S3 for file management
- Authored detailed architecture documentation covering system design and integration patterns
Scalable Backend Systems
Senior Backend Developer
Nov 2023 - Sep 2025
Led design and implementation of scalable, high-performance backend systems using Node.js (TypeScript) and Laravel for critical production projects.
- Developed serverless microservices on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SNS, and SQS
- Structured backends using Hexagonal (Ports and Adapters) Architecture for maintainability and testability
- Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning with AWS CloudFormation and Serverless Framework
- Designed and maintained robust REST APIs handling large volumes of concurrent requests
- Mentored developers and shaped backend architecture decisions across critical projects
EZ2ID Platform & Multiple Client Projects
Office Manager & Lead Developer
Nov 2020 - Sep 2025
Managed the Mindelo office — operations, client relations, and project delivery — while leading development across multiple concurrent software products.
- Led development of EZ2ID mobile app (iOS/Android) using SwiftUI and Kotlin with a Realm database layer, managing App Store and Play Store deployments and roadmap
- Developed EZ2ID licensing server (Node.js, PostgreSQL) and self-service licensing dashboard (ReactJS)
- Built electric car charger management platform: Angular frontend, NestJS and Python microservices, MongoDB, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, OCPP 1.6, and WebSockets
- Built ez2cloud SaaS platform for file labeling with Adyen payments integration, Node.js backend, and ReactJS frontend
- Managed team task organisation, sprint planning, and delivery timelines for multiple concurrent projects
- Orchestrated services with Docker Compose; implemented Jest, Pytest, and Cypress test suites
Client Software Products
Software Developer
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Developed a range of client-facing software products spanning web, mobile, and point-of-sale domains across multiple industries.
- Developed Polar Boat Ticket Portal (Laravel, MySQL) with financial management and employee management modules
- Created Cape Verde Lawyers Application (NestJS, ReactJS) for order management and payment processing
- Built Android POS system using Flutter, integrated with Jasmin Primavera ERP
- Engineered car rental company software (React, NestJS) covering reservations, vehicle tracking, and customer CRM
Web & E-Commerce Products
Software Developer
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Delivered front-end and full-stack web projects including the company website, a scalable e-commerce solution, and a government web application.
- Developed the company website sintaxy.com with a Next.js frontend and Strapi headless CMS
- Built a scalable e-commerce platform using NextJS Commerce and the Vendure headless commerce framework (TypeScript)
- Contributed to a government web application frontend built with AngularJS
Prassa E-Commerce Platform
Software Engineer
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Built Prassa, a scalable e-commerce platform, across web and mobile surfaces while establishing testing and documentation practices.
- Built the Node.js backend and ReactJS frontend for Prassa, backed by PostgreSQL
- Developed the React Native mobile version of Prassa and extracted the Redux store into a reusable npm package for cross-platform sharing
- Developed an iOS/iPadOS SwiftUI app for training AI algorithms
- Documented web components using Storybook and unit tested every backend operation with Jest
Education
Universidade do Mindelo
Computer Engineering
2018 - 2021
Featured Work
A selection of projects spanning systems architecture, AI, and full-stack development.
SkyBook
High-Performance Flight Booking Engine
Microservices-based flight booking engine built for travel agencies, aggregating multiple GDS/NDC suppliers with dual-tier caching and an event-sourced booking lifecycle.
- Multi-supplier integration: Duffel, Amadeus, Crane/Hitit
- Dual-tier caching layer reducing upstream calls by 80%+
- Event-sourced booking state machine with full replay
Flowster
Enterprise Workflow Automation Platform
Full-stack enterprise workflow platform with a custom React graph editor, .NET execution engine, AI-powered XAML generation via LangChain/LangGraph, and multi-tenant admin console with Keycloak OAuth2.
- Custom Manhattan edge routing engine with A* pathfinding and obstacle avoidance
- AI-powered XAML workflow generation using LangChain, LangGraph, and RAG with Qdrant
- Multi-tenant admin API in .NET 10 with Keycloak OAuth2 and 15+ endpoints
FACIS
Federation Architecture for Composed Infrastructure Services
European open-source project under Eclipse XFSC implementing cloud-edge continuum federation with zero-trust security, an orchestration engine, and an AI flow builder.
- European open-source project under Eclipse XFSC
- Cloud-edge continuum federation architecture
- Zero-trust security at every service boundary
Aluguer CV
Car Rental Marketplace for Cape Verde
Turbo monorepo marketplace for Cape Verde car rentals, combining a Go 1.23+ backend with chi router and a Next.js 15 frontend backed by PostgreSQL and S3.
Clinic Cost Planner
Surgical Cost Planning System
Role-based surgical cost planning dashboard with procedure tracking, consumables inventory, staff management, cost analysis, and PDF export.
Deepwiki-rs (Litho)
AI-Driven Architecture Documentation Generator
Rust-based CLI tool that auto-generates C4 architecture documentation from codebases using a ReAct reasoning loop and a multi-language parser pipeline.
Legal Copilot
AI-Powered Legal Document Assistant
Event-driven AWS Lambda backend with OCR and intelligent data extraction, processing legal documents through a multi-stage pipeline via SQS.
Redator Contencioso
Legal Document Management Platform
Next.js 15 legal document platform with ONLYOFFICE integration, ProseMirror rich-text editor, real-time collaboration via Hocuspocus, and Firebase authentication.
Protour
Travel Ticket Booking Engine
NestJS + React travel booking engine with Stripe payments, Auth0 authentication, Prisma ORM, i18n, Google Maps integration, and real-time search.
CAI Portal
Cruise Atlantic Island Management Platform
Monorepo management platform for Cruise Atlantic Island with a NestJS backend, React frontend, and Dockerized deployment.
Vectorize Docx CAI
Document Vectorization Pipeline
Python pipeline for bulk document vectorization feeding a Qdrant vector database via SQLAlchemy, producing RAG-ready embeddings for downstream AI applications.
Excalidraw Fork
Real-Time Collaborative Whiteboard
Fork of the Excalidraw open-source whiteboard with E2E encryption, PWA offline support, and real-time collaboration via a self-hosted WebSocket room server.
FACIS: Federation Architecture for Composed Infrastructure Services
Contributing to Europe's Open-Source Cloud-Edge Continuum
FACIS is a European open-source initiative under the Eclipse XFSC project, building the architectural foundation for federated cloud-edge computing. It establishes patterns for secure, interoperable services across organizational boundaries.
My contributions focus on the Easy Stack Builder and ORCE (Orchestration Engine), implementing Kubernetes-native deployment patterns, zero-trust security demonstrators, and AI-powered flow builders that enable low-code orchestration of complex infrastructure.
The project delivers Federation Architecture Patterns (FAPs), Digital Contracting Services, machine-readable SLAs, and proof-of-concept implementations that demonstrate how European organizations can collaborate on shared infrastructure while maintaining sovereignty.
Technologies I Work With
A comprehensive toolkit built over years of full-stack development, systems programming, and cloud-native engineering.