Freelance creative developer · Lisbon · available Q3
I build fast, exact web interfaces for founders and agencies. No claims on this page, only readings: the live audit panel is measuring this very site while you read this sentence.
Shipped for teams at fintech, retail and media companies across the EU. References on request, latency numbers on delivery.
Readings come from this browser's Performance APIs, not a marketing table.
Method
Every project starts with a performance budget in the contract: weight, paint time, interaction latency. If a design decision blows the budget, the budget wins.
Animation earns its place by explaining something: where a panel came from, what just changed, what to do next. Decorative motion gets cut in review, including mine.
Keyboard flow, contrast and semantics are written in from the first commit, not audited in at the end. Retrofitting accessibility costs three times what building it does.
You get a documented design system, not a folder of divs: tokens, component states, and a README your next developer will thank you for.
Selected work
Meridian's mobile checkout took 3.8 seconds to become interactive and 14 percent of buyers left before it did. I rebuilt the flow as a three-field form with optimistic validation and moved everything non-critical off the main thread.
Norte's designers were redrawing the same components in every file. I built their product's design system as a single token source feeding CSS, Figma and documentation, with every component state written down once.
A national news site needed live results that would not fall over at midnight. I built the results front end as a stream of server-sent patches over a static shell: no polling, no reload, and a reading experience that stayed calm while the numbers did not.
Working together
Most projects start here
A defined interface, built end to end: scope, performance budget, design system, delivery. Fixed price agreed after a scoping call, typically 3 to 8 weeks.
I join your team two to four days a week: unblocking a launch, hardening a front end, or pairing with your developers on the tricky ten percent. Weekly rate, one month minimum.
Contact
Three fields, thirty seconds. I reply within two working days with either a call slot or an honest "I am not the right person for this".
Your message goes to me, not a CRM. Nothing here is tracked beyond the readings you already saw.