Work Experience

FidForward
Remote

June 2024 - Present

Co-Founder

  • Currently trying to build something new and challenging in the HR space.

ScraperAPI
Remote

May 2023 - October 2025

Senior Backend Engineer

  • Led, implemented, and deployed large-scale performance and reliability improvements across ScraperAPI's infrastructure, powering 35B+ API requests per month.
  • Unblocked multiple domains previously reliant on third-party services, saving over $10K per month by bringing anti-block solutions in-house.
  • Architected and delivered a high-capacity rendering engine handling 100M+ monthly requests and orchestrating 4,000+ concurrent browsers with distributed proxies and advanced unblocking strategies, improving success rates and reducing rendering latency by 33%.
  • Designed and implemented automatic bot-blocking bypass mechanisms and advanced anti-detection techniques, now used by 40%+ of all platform traffic, significantly improving success rates, reliability, and undetectability.
  • Developed a Browser-as-a-Service proof of concept enabling customers to control browsers directly via Playwright and Puppeteer, with built-in concurrency and usage limits.
  • Won four internal hackathons, delivering innovative prototypes that were integrated into the product roadmap.
  • Worked daily with TypeScript, Python, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, and Kubernetes.

Cloudflare
Remote

July 2021 - May 2023

Software Engineer

  • Helped to develop a framework in Go that ingests BigQuery data into PostgreSQL and ClickHouse instances.
  • Built a platform providing insights to Cloudflare's Sales teams using a React and TypeScript front end powered by a Go API, with PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and ClickHouse supplying data.
  • Developed a system that notifies go-to-market teams about customer product usage, enabling more effective upsell opportunities.

Freelance
Remote

December 2021 - Present

Fullstack Software Engineer

  • Developed BasePub, an AI research discovery platform powered by TypeScript routines, Next.js, PostgreSQL, AWS S3, and Algolia.
  • Built Paws, a photo contest platform with a responsive web experience, two-factor authentication, Facebook OAuth, and Stripe payments using React, TypeScript, and MySQL deployed on Cloudflare and GCP.
  • Created Muffin, a social timer app with authenticated real-time chat and a Kanban board using Cloudflare Workers and WebSockets.

Paladar
Portugal

July 2020 - October 2022

Co-Founder

  • Co-founded a startup delivering unique dining experiences for tourists and secured investment from a Portuguese startup program.

Education

University of Coimbra

September 2018 - July 2021
Bachelor of Software Engineering — Coimbra, Portugal

Skills

TypeScript
Golang
Python
SQL
NoSQL
C/C++
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
React.js
Node.js
React Native
Django
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
Cloudflare
AWS
Portuguese
English
Spanish