Design Engineer — Lisbon
Interfaces made with intent, not defaults.
I build the front end of research tools and editorial products — the kind where the interface has to disappear so the work can show through.
About
I've spent the last eight years somewhere between design and engineering, which is a polite way of saying I have opinions about both. Most of my work lives in that seam: design systems that survive contact with a real codebase, prototypes that are honest about what they cost to ship.
Currently building tooling for a small research lab. Previously at two startups and one agency, where I learned that the constraint is almost never the technology.
Selected Work
Fieldnote
2025A writing environment for qualitative researchers — annotation, coding, and export without leaving the keyboard.
Halcyon Press
2024Publishing platform for an independent literary imprint. Typography-first, with a CMS the editors actually enjoy using.
Ledger Atlas
2023Dense financial dashboards for a treasury team — twelve thousand rows that stay legible and never drop a frame.