{"experience":[{"period":"2022 - Present","company":"Miro","companyUrl":"https://miro.com","roles":[{"title":"Senior Software Engineer","description":"Self-serve checkout and billing in Miro's Growth Monetization team","highlights":["Responsible for the migration of the checkout monolith to MiroPay, the pioneer microservice Miro deployed at scale, including the UI and its BFF for individuals and teams (through Business): Stripe Elements in the browser, 3DS, tax/VAT, and plan, seat, and add-on changes via Stigg - card data stays with Stripe","Shipped checkout flows for add-ons, AI credit products, Business AI, and free-to-paid experiments","Main maintainer of checkout DX, focusing on performance-oriented improvements; contribute to company-wide projects like the migration from SplitIO to an in-house A/B service for controlled rollouts","Migrated the payments app from Next.js 14 to 16 (cut build time by 96%, 32% faster local startup), cut CI from ~25 minutes to under 4 minutes, and moved the toolchain to Bun and Oxc","First-responder on checkout incidents; work on payment reliability, observability, fraud hardening, and operational health across Growth Monetization","Mentor junior engineers and work across product, design, platform, and billing teams","Daily-drive Claude Code and Cursor for planning and delivery, treating their output as a draft I always review and refine"]}]},{"period":"2019 - 2022","company":"Spotzer","companyUrl":"https://spotzerdigital.com","roles":[{"title":"Fullstack Software Engineer","description":"Multiple Employee of the Month awards","highlights":["Re-architected backend services into microservices with Node.js, .NET Core, and Kafka","Reworked company-wide authentication, implementing OIDC and SSO across products"]},{"title":"Frontend Engineer","highlights":["Developed customer-facing web applications","Modernised legacy frontend systems using React, Vue, and Angular","Improved application performance and user experience","Collaborated with design and product teams"]}]},{"period":"2015 - 2019","company":"DevScope","companyUrl":"https://devscope.net","roles":[{"title":"Full Stack Engineer & Mobile Developer","description":"Projects with Sogrape, CSantos, and Sonae backoffice","highlights":["Built enterprise Windows applications","Developed cross-platform mobile solutions","Maintained legacy systems and implemented new features"]}]}],"education":{"period":"2015 - 2018","degree":"Master's in Software Engineering","institution":"ISEP","institutionLegalName":"ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto","institutionUrl":"https://isep.ipp.pt","description":"Advanced software architecture and engineering practices"},"resumeDownloadPath":"/cv_rui_en.docx"}