résumé · Frontend-focused Software Engineer
Thiago
Menezes
Frontend-focused Software Engineer who builds scalable, maintainable React and Next.js applications with TypeScript and strong UX rigor. I specialize in design systems and platform primitives, unifying design languages and leading extensible frontend portals. A product-design background lets me ship accessible, high-performance UIs that move business and user outcomes.
Technical skills
- React
- Next.js 15
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML5 / CSS3
- Tailwind
- SCSS Modules
- Styled Components
- React Query
- React Hook Form
- Storybook
- Testing Library
- Jest
- Git
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Design Systems
- Design Tokens
- Figma
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- User Research
- Prototyping
Experience
Ten years across engineering and design, newest first.
- v2025.09Sep 2025 — Present
Contract Frontend Engineer
Independent / Contract · Remote
- Legacy Insights (Black Legacy): frontend for a data aggregation platform unifying payment gateways and ad platforms, with role-based access and team management, in Next.js and TypeScript.
- Grupo Ser Educacional: multitenant Next.js architecture powering course-sales sites for 7 universities from a single codebase.
- iRoddas (T&F Soluções): co-founder and frontend engineer of a vehicle marketplace MVP for the Mato Grosso market, also leading UX, product and brand.
- v2022.06Jun 2022 — Sep 2025
Frontend Engineer
Grupo SBF · Nike Brazil & Centauro · Remote
- Led the frontend for Panel SBF (Next.js + TypeScript), centralizing tools from 12+ teams into 50+ features with role-based access and audit logging.
- Architected an extensible, component-driven platform with React, Storybook and design tokens, so new features onboarded fast.
- Modernized legacy Freight and Stock flows with React, TypeScript and React Query, improving stock-search responsiveness.
- Hardened quality with Testing Library, Jest and CI coverage, reducing regressions in critical UI primitives.
- v2021.01Jan 2021 — Jun 2022
Product Designer
Grupo SBF · Nike Brazil & Centauro · Remote
- Drove discovery and user research for marketplace-in product management, aligning solutions to seller needs.
- Prototyped end-to-end flows for product onboarding and catalog updates, cutting friction and support tickets.
- Contributed patterns to the design system, improving consistency and speeding handoff to engineering.
- v2017.08Aug 2017 — Jan 2021
Frontend Engineer & Product Designer
Digix · Brazil
- Delivered core PapelZero features that digitized government workflows for thousands of users.
- Built and documented reusable components and tokens, standardizing UI across 9+ products.
- Drove UX through interviews, journey maps and usability tests for high-impact government products.
- Scaled design-system practices and design-ops rituals adopted across multiple teams.
- v2015.06Jun 2015 — Aug 2017
Designer
BTB Agency · Brazil
- Designed and built websites and digital assets, producing visual work for magazines and campaigns.
- Collaborated on video, photography and art direction for end-to-end campaign delivery.
Key achievements
Platform VisionGrupo SBF
Pitched a strategy to C-level leadership to centralize services, which led to the creation of Panel SBF.
Rapid GrowthDigix
Earned 6+ recognitions and moved from trainee to Senior Product Designer in four years.
Tech ModernizationMultiple
Led the migration of flagship products to Next.js, lifting Lighthouse scores and performance.
Education & more
B.A. in Advertising
Uniderp Anhanguera
2012–2015
- HackerRank: Frontend Developer (React), JavaScript, React — 2025
- LinkedIn: Next.js Full-Stack, GitHub Actions — 2025
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- Native
- English
- Business