Joakim
From Portugal (UTC+1)
Joakim – React, Node.js, Typescript
Joakim is a strong middle full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience, specializing in Node.js, React, TypeScript, and AWS. He has led delivery for large-scale banking, wellness, and process management platforms, demonstrating solid skills in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. His strengths include clear communication, problem-solving, and integrating AI workflows into production.
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Tech Lead
It's a multi-year greenfield digital banking program building a modern web and mobile platform for retail and business banking customers.
- Led the AI front-end team, turning an executive Figma-to-code initiative into a production platform and delivering 200+ screens across 14 modules at ~5x estimated speed.
- Architected a multi-agent, spec-driven pipeline with 1,080+ design-system components, validation, and human review to protect approved screens and reduce regressions.
- Cut LLM context loads by 90%+ through tiered Figma caching, searchable catalogs, and summaries up to 20x smaller, reducing token usage.
- Led front-end delivery across 20 engineers, 3 teams, and multiple vendors through reviews, standards, coaching, estimation, and executive reporting.
Tech Lead
It's a core banking API gateway that connects banking systems and fintech products via APIs.
- Led delivery across 3 engineering teams (14 engineers), owning planning, prioritization, technical discovery, PR reviews, QA, and blocker resolution.
- Drove Kotlin and GraphQL API redesign and integration expansion across banking and fintech systems, implementing integrations and resolving blockers through LLM-assisted development and RAG-based documentation.
- Established and enforced delivery standards across Jira workflows, ticket quality, bug triage, documentation, demos, and handoffs, while leading client demos and knowledge transfer.
- Drove delivery through five iterative Core API demos and a final QA-complete demo using executive reporting, risk escalation, backlog prioritization, and cross-team blocker resolution.
Full-stack Developer
It's an enterprise process management platform for a public administration organization, unifying process knowledge across technical and non-technical departments through a consultation portal and a governed back office.















- Architected and built an end-to-end process management platform spanning a public portal, back office, API, database, and containerized infrastructure, replacing a difficult-to-maintain legacy system.
- Unified process management for technical and non-technical departments, mapping and translating 197 business rules into controlled workflows for ownership, review, publication, versioning, audit history, and AS-IS/TO-BE lifecycle management.
- Replaced overnight batch publishing with a shared database-backed platform where approved changes became immediately available, while removing dependency on proprietary read-only consultation licensing.
- Measured the governance improvements through a COBIT evaluation of 10 practices, with 6 reaching formal capability levels in the implemented system.
Team Lead
It's a mobile banking MVP for a greenfield core banking platform, to establish the front-end foundation for a larger web and mobile banking program.
- Led a 5-engineer team delivering the initial mobile banking MVP, establishing the frontend foundation later reused by the production project.
- Built the initial modules, banking flows, and payment functionality while defining implementation patterns, organizing the Figma-backed delivery backlog, and validating completed screens with the team.
- Built the team's front-end and Online Banking onboarding system, including setup, debugging, microapp, styling, and best-practice documentation, plus recorded Moodle training used for engineer onboarding and knowledge transfer.
- Presented product demos and validated the implementation approach with stakeholders, helping establish the direction for the next phase.
Tech Lead
It's a digital banking module supporting ACH payments and payment templates within a large-scale banking platform.
- Led new ACH payment and templating capabilities as feature lead, driving Angular and TypeScript front-end modernization.
- Drove architecture and API updates, refactoring and testing legacy modules to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Established design-system, code-quality, review, and documentation standards using Figma, Storybook, and Zeroheight across 4 teams.
- Coordinated dependencies across an 10-engineering team and other 3 teams through four roadmap demos and successive release milestones, resolving technical blockers and production issues across ACH payments and templates.
Tech Lead
It's a community wellness platform serving 50K+ users across multiple US districts through a mobile app, web portal, and back-office system.
- Led full-cycle delivery from client scoping and architecture through production launch and a platform-wide rebrand spanning web, mobile, backend systems, digital assets, cloud infrastructure, and domains.
- Defined scope, budget, and delivery schedule with the client, partnering with the VP of Engineering on architecture, development standards, and delivery pipelines.
- Scaled the platform to 50K+ users and analytics to 10K+ concurrent users across multiple US districts while optimizing application data and AWS infrastructure to reduce cloud costs by 75.5%.
- Delivered 2 major releases on schedule, restoring CI/CD and owning database migrations, QA, App Store, and Google Play deployment, and production integration issues.