João Figueiredo

A mobile app designed to revolutionize the way people make friends by fostering meaningful connections through shared experiences. Positioned between a friendship-focused dating app and traditional social media, Sidekick connects users based on mutual interests and helps them find activities to do together, addressing loneliness and social isolation.

An early-stage startup developing a search and analytics platform for the Cardano blockchain. The goal is to provide users with a comprehensive view of historical on-chain events and data. The site improves upon existing blockchain explorers through a more intuitive user interface and additional functionality such as a search engine and data analytics.

I was the only developer responsible for the whole front-end application from scratch. The application used Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and GraphQL for data fetching.

A youth sports management platform designed for community clubs, Athletiq streamlines communication and coordination among families, volunteers, and teams. With a focus on fostering collaboration, the platform provides tools to help admins, coaches, and parents manage schedules, track team progress, and stay informed. Athletiq’s user-centered design ensures that managing youth sports is simple, efficient, and enjoyable for all involved.

An ecosystem that supports real-estate investment in the Swiss property market, making it more transparent, efficient, and accessible. Users can invest alone or with others with as little as CHF 25,000.

I worked closely with the founder's team, together with a designer, going from a blank canvas to their first online product. To date, the platform placed 1.5 billion CHF (roughly 1.6B USD) investments in the market, becoming one of the biggest successful startup stories in Switzerland.

Fringe is an employee lifestyle and benefits marketplace. I joined their team to help them meet a very tight deadline.

The project consisted of implementing a whole set of new UI components and screens using React, Styled Components, Storybook (and Storyblok for UI regression tests), Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress.

Sparkademy is an employee training program that helps companies scale customer-centric skills and reduce spending. It identifies and selects the employees with the right skills and highest potential at your company and then teaches them the skills to transform your business.

On the tech side of things, the platform uses React, TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, Cypress, Jest, and Webpack.

How do you verify real people in the digital world? Onfido helps companies see real identity—the humans behind the screens—using world-leading AI and identity experts. Your customers can prove their identities, wherever they are, with just an ID and their face. So you’ll have everything you need to grow your business securely.

I worked directly with their marketing team to make the website fit their needs. The website was developed using React, Gatsby, Contentful, and Styled Components. I also helped their SEO lead with technical SEO features that were lacking on their website.

A React Native app for iOS and Android that allows tenants to submit their lists on time and provides the respective property management or landlord with a standardized, structured document.

This innovative project was realized in close collaboration with the client, making the application available for iOS in just three months. The Android app followed a month later.

The back-end was implemented with a headless cockpit CMS and OpenShift/Kubernetes, enabling the client to easily scale the back-end capacity if the user demand increases.