Product · Design · Code · AI

Deciding what to build,then proving it works.

Research → production

Uplink · Porto

About

Over ten years at the intersection of design, technology and product, now working across product design and product management, from first concept through to post-launch evaluation.

I have worked with product teams in Porto and London across connected-vehicle networks, insurance software, healthcare staffing and city-scale public services. The product decision, the interface and the front-end sit in the same pair of hands, and lately the models underneath them too. Passionate about technology, AI and machine learning, business processes, collaboration, simplicity, and creating impactful products that solve real-world problems and actually matter.

How I work

  • Problem before model

    The technology is a means. I start from the job the user is stuck on, then decide whether a model, a rule or a better screen solves it.

  • Measure, then scale

    Nothing ships on a demo. Quality gets a definition and a test before it gets a roadmap slot, and the test stays after launch.

  • Ship on a schedule

    Small releases, often, with clear tradeoffs written down. Momentum beats a perfect plan that arrives late.

  • Design and build together

    I prototype in code. It shortens the distance between an idea and an honest answer about whether it works.

Experience

  • 2023 →

    Uplink

    UX/UI Designer & Front-end Developer

    Porto · Hybrid

  • 2020 → 2023

    Porto Digital

    UX/UI Designer & Developer

    Porto

  • 2015 → 2020

    Veniam

    UX/UI Designer & Developer

    Porto

  • 2015

    i2S Insurance Software

    Web Designer

    Porto

  • 2014 → 2015

    Lantum

    UX/UI Designer & Developer

    London

Projects

  • Route, real-time transport and points of interest on one plan. Interviews in Porto, a blueprint for the whole trip, the roadmap, the front-end, and the numbers read again six months after launch.

  • An operations platform for the municipal teams who fix the city. Three services running on paper, Excel and WhatsApp, one BPMN spine underneath, so each keeps its own process while sharing a system.

  • Exhibition

    Another me

    Installation selected for FuturePlaces 2009, an international call for artists and digital-media creatives responding to the festival themes of digital media and local cultures.

Capabilities

Product

Discovery & user research · Service blueprints and journey maps · Strategy and roadmapping · Requirements and tradeoffs · Metrics and evaluation · Stakeholder alignment

Design

Information architecture · Interaction design · Wireframing · Prototyping · UI systems · Figma, Sketch, Whimsical, Maze

Code & AI

HTML · CSS · React · Angular · Node · Django · Model-powered features · Prototyping with LLMs · Output quality checks

Education & patent

  • 2025

    Product Management

    TheStarter, Cursos Avançados de UX Design

    Certificate

  • 2021

    React Global

    Geekle

    Certificate

  • 2020

    Design Sprint Masterclass

    AJ&Smart

    Berlin

  • 2018

    Systems and Methods for Interfacing with a User of a Network of Moving Things

    US Patent 10110443

    Patent

  • 2013

    Web Programmer, professional training

    FLAG

    Porto

  • 2011

    MA, Technology and Digital Art

    University of Minho

    Guimarães

  • 2005

    BA, Graphic Design and Advertising

    ESEIG, IPP

    Porto

Happy to talk about any of it: first idea, product decision, design, code, and the people in between.