Francisco is available for hire
Hire FranciscoFrancisco Antunes
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
June 14, 2016
Francisco has more than a few years of experience working on projects ranging from single static pages, like marketing pages, to highly complex apps with many transactions per second. Those projects include Google projects, the Scottish police, and a freelance services company. Francisco is passionate about new technologies and is an early adopter of most of the latest approaches to modern front-end web development.
Portfolio
Wovn
Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript
Shell
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Styled-components, SCSS
Planetary
Next.js, React, Storybook
Experience
Availability
Full-time
Preferred Environment
React, JavaScript, CSS, Styled-components
The most amazing...
...experience I've had was creating solutions for all sorts of business requirements and helping junior developers with their learning.
Work Experience
Senior Front End Developer
2022 - 2023
Wovn
- Helped build and maintain the web app (using Next.js) for artists and collectors to manage their NFT assets.
- Improved and expanded services and overall performance of the app.
- Built an award-winning app in collaboration with partners showcasing AI and other technologies.
Technologies: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript
Senior Front-end Developer
2022 - 2023
Shell
- Built and maintained the React components library used across multiple teams.
- Create tests to assess functionality and accessibility.
- Helped other teams implement the components, providing guidelines and documentation.
Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Styled-components, SCSS
Senior Front-end Developer
2022 - 2022
Planetary
- Helped build a dashboard for one web3 client using Next.js.
- Collaborated with other front-end developers and built new components and pages.
- Created all components, which are also available in the storybook, so that other teams could use them.
Technologies: Next.js, React, Storybook
Senior Front-end Developer
2022 - 2022
Bright Moments
- Created UI elements based on the Atomic Design approach using styled-components.
- Developed an application for NFT exhibitions in cities around the world.
- Worked with a range of technology such as web3, styled-components, React, and Ethers.js.
- Helped launch registration application as well as a portal to user purchase NFTs.
Technologies: React, Web3.js, Ethers.js
Senior Front-end Developer (React)
2021 - 2022
Glisser
- Worked as a front-end developer for the Glisser product team. They wanted to break down the presentation side of the application and create multiple UI elements to be used as an SDK by the clients in their application.
- Developed and led this migration of the current application from Angular to React and made it modular for the clients to consume directly in their applications.
- Created a monorepo, initially using Lerna, and then moved to npm workspaces to manage all packages.
- Rebuilt all the UI components based on Atomic Design for the presentation part of the application, which is the most used using React, styled-components, and TypeScript.
- Built a JavaScript layer to support both technologies through the transition from Angular to React.
Technologies: React, JavaScript, Cypress
Senior Front-end Developer
2021 - 2021
Zobrist Consulting Group
- Collaborated with a team of developers to build and maintain the loyalty platform using React and Vue for various clients such as Vans and The North Face.
- Updated CSS framework to handle new sections of the loyalty page.
- Helped integrate an existing React application with Vue Storefront.
Technologies: React, TypeScript
Lead Front-end Developer
2020 - 2020
Cooperative Bank
- Led a team of three front-end developers to rebuild the current account form using React and Redux, which is one of the key forms to bring clients to the bank as well as one with the highest traffic.
- Focused the development on performance, test, accessibility, and mobile-first.
- Worked thoroughly on the accessibility to match the highest standards.
- Created all unit and integration tests using the Jest and React Testing Library.
- Joined the team with the Redux data flow already designed but helped update it to improve performance and scalability.
- Involved in meetings with DevOps, designers, back-end, and POs to build a strategy on how to manage expectations, achieve goals, and improve work.
Technologies: ECMAScript (ES6), HTML5, BEM, React Testing Library, Jest, Hooks, SCSS, React
Lead Front-end Developer
2018 - 2020
Accenture | University of Manchester
- Wrote the documentation, guidelines, and lint for the team to follow.
- Kickstarted the foundation for HTML, SCSS, and ES6 to be the main components using BEM-ish so that the UI components could be modified and extended by the team.
- Communicated with designers and business analysts to make a consistent UI library so the project would have a maintainable and manageable components library legacy left to the university when the handover happens.
- Mentored junior developers on best practices and facilitated problem-solving. The team consisted of three front-end developers (two juniors and one mid-level), and we all created and integrated the designed UI components with the back end.
- Wrote code, guided, and supported other team members to collectively decide which technology to use and different approaches to take.
Technologies: BEM, HTML5, Pattern Lab, SCSS, ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript
Senior Front-end Developer
2017 - 2018
Loggly
- Helped to rebuild the company’s main product UI based on new designs.
Technologies: HTML5, JavaScript, SCSS
Senior Front-end Developer
2017 - 2017
Befunky
- Worked together with the team and built a new user interface to move away from the outdated Flash app.
Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, JavaScript
Senior Front-end Developer
2016 - 2016
Consumer Affairs (via Toptal)
- Helped to develop and migrate sections of the website to new UI designs.
Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, Sass, CSS
Senior Front-end Developer
2015 - 2016
YouView
- Created multiple themes for the TV box UI. Those themes were among the company partnerships as well accessibility.
- Improved the performance of the CSS on the TV box UI since the boxes had low-powered processors.
Technologies: CSS, jQuery, Gulp
Lead Front-end Developer
2014 - 2015
A Global Management Consulting and Professional Services Firm
- Led a team of three front-end developers where one was based in the UK and two in India to redesign the UI of an application for the Scottish Police.
- Created a CSS framework to be used to revamp the UI.
- Wrote documentation about the new framework with code samples and UI examples.
- Created templates (as well as many snippets of code) to be integrated with a Java back-end.
- Held many meetings with all the back-end developers to make the process seamlessly to the test team.
Technologies: Grunt, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, jQuery
Senior Front-end Developer
2014 - 2014
AKQA
- Developed the front end for a project for Vodafone that was integrated with a back end using a CQ framework.
Technologies: Grunt, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS
Front-end Developer
2014 - 2014
Wunderman
- Built a prototype for a client. The project was a banner that would load the data from a RESTful API. To create the project, I used mostly jQuery, CSS3, and HTML5.
Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery
Senior Front-end Developer
2014 - 2014
Sainsbury
- Worked with other front-end developers to create a new product for the company.
- Juggled working with almost five front-end developers within the same team—we had to split the work between us and create a module based on CSS.
Technologies: CSS, JavaScript
Senior Front-end Developer
2013 - 2014
Syzygy
- Created HTML templates based on a design that was to be integrated with a .NET application.
Technologies: jQuery, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
Full-stack Developer
2012 - 2012
ICC Lowe
- Developed a Twitter map application using Node.js.
- Created multiple marketing websites for clients.
Technologies: HTML5, CSS, jQuery, Node.js
Senior Front-end Developer
2011 - 2012
Potato
- Worked on many marketing projects for YouTube.
- Created templates for Google Small Business campaigns in more than 30 countries.
Technologies: jQuery, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS
Experience
Loggly Dashboard
https://www.loggly.com/product/log-monitoring/I helped Loggly rebuild the log management dashboard, which is their main product, which handles large amounts of data and translates it into charts and reports to the end-user.
The rebuild was based on a new freshly designed UI using Angular, SCSS, and HTML.
The rebuild was based on a new freshly designed UI using Angular, SCSS, and HTML.
BeFunky Photo Editor
https://www.befunky.com/create/Rebuild the whole user interface from the ground up using CSS (with loads of animations), JavaScript, and HTML5.
The new UI replaced an old flash-based application with loads of new features and enhancements to users.
The new UI replaced an old flash-based application with loads of new features and enhancements to users.
Tweet Split
https://github.com/fantunes/tweet-split-vuejsBased on a few inspirational projects, I created this to play with Vue.js. It splits a long text into tweets (of 140 characters). It does not publish on Twitter, nor does it split based on spaces yet.
Skills
Languages
ECMAScript (ES6), CSS3, Sass, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Less, TypeScript 3, SCSS, Pug, TypeScript
Frameworks
Bootstrap, Jest, AngularJS, Cypress, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, Node.js, Vue, Shopify API, Mustache, Web3.js
Tools
Gulp, Grunt, Sublime Text, Pattern Lab, Git, Fireworks, Adobe Fireworks
Paradigms
Scrum, BEM, Agile
Platforms
MacOS, WordPress, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Other
React Testing Library, Hooks, Ethers.js, Styled-components, Storybook
Storage
MySQLi, MySQL