About me
At the end of 2021, after 5 years of experience in the Project Management field, I decided to follow my dreams and become a developer. Now, I am a Software Developer with more than 4 years of experience, but my skills go beyond coding.
I work across the full product surface: translating research into product decisions, collaborating on UI/UX, writing frontend code, integrating databases, and shipping AI-powered features. With a background in project management, I understand both the technical and business sides of a product.
Beyond coding, I’m always learning, especially about history and psychology. Cooking is my way of showing care, and I can probably surprise you with fun facts about movies and TV shows.
Here’s a playlist of songs I enjoy, because sometimes the best way to know someone is through the music they love.
Work Experience
- Own engineering for three products: Saffron (web app live, native iOS in development), Crispy Duck (pre-launch) and the open-source lucide-extended.
- Built Saffron's AI recipe import: users add a link, photo or YouTube video and get a structured recipe, normalised into one data model that feeds meal plans and grocery lists. Uses structured outputs with JSON schemas, tool use, vision/OCR, YouTube transcript extraction, and versioned, evaluated prompts.
- Scoped Saffron as a meal planner, not a recipe book: recipes capture what to cook and when, not quantities or method. That kept the product simple and the build focused.
- Built the data and auth layer on Supabase (Auth, Postgres with row-level security, Edge Functions, Storage, Realtime), with Google sign-in, Sign in with Apple, magic links and Clerk.
- Set up billing and sales across products with Polar.sh, Stripe and StoreKit, and sell digital products through Gumroad.
- Design and build interaction details, motion, and empty and loading states in React and SwiftUI, implementing the studio designer's Figma work and owning product trade-offs.
- Building the native iOS app in SwiftUI with SwiftData, CloudKit, WidgetKit, Siri (App Intents) and Apple Intelligence.
- Delivered 10+ responsive web projects, including landing pages, dashboards and SPAs.
- Built reusable component libraries that cut development time by 30% on later projects.
- Managed full project cycles: planning, client communication, development and delivery.
- Optimised SEO and mobile performance, reaching Google PageSpeed scores above 95 on most projects.
- Built an internal tool for managing company assets and resources with React and TypeScript.
- Created dynamic, validated forms and improved cross-browser compatibility, cutting QA issues by 40%.
- Developed 20+ modular components for the company’s internal design system.
- Took part in agile ceremonies, contributed to documentation and worked with cross-functional teams.
Earlier career: Project Management (2016 – 2021)
- Consulted for Arfa Iron and Steel, designing their project management process on the PMBOK standard.
- Documented the process, including process maps and instructions, using the APQP process model.
- Established a Project Management Office based on the PMBOK standard.
- Scheduled and controlled projects and portfolios, and built an Excel dashboard reporting their progress.
- Defined and evaluated business KPIs, with Excel dashboards monitoring production, QC, QA and HR.
- Designed and implemented an R&D process based on the APQP model.