Software Engineer · Belmonte, Portugal
Software engineer from Belmonte, Portugal, with more than a decade in tech. By day I ship production React and GraphQL at Aubay. On the side I'm building Melro.io, a small company that writes software for local businesses.
I make software, break it, fix it, and learn something along the way. This site is where I write that down.
React · Next.js · TypeScript · React Native · Tauri
Working on now
updated Sep 2026
Now working on
Shipping features on a React + GraphQL codebase at Aubay Portugal — focused on frontend architecture, DX and testing practices.
Building
Iterating on Melro.io — a side company building customized software for local businesses. Slow, deliberate, founder-mode.
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Reworking my daily workflow around AI drafting and human judgement — this site's log is the lab notebook for it.
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Going deeper on Tauri for desktop and React Native for mobile. The web skills transfer; the platform edges are still the tax.
read more01 · Studies
A track is something I'm actively learning, with the notes that show the actual work. No progress bars.
I love the web. With AI as a drafting partner I'm learning what it takes to build professionally and securely for any environment: browser, phone, desktop. Not just fast, but safe to put in front of real users.
The way I write software is changing faster than any framework cycle I've lived through. The log is my lab notebook: what works, what doesn't, and what stays human.
Tauri makes desktop feel like shipping web, until the webview reminds you it isn't Chrome. I want the platform edges to stop being a tax.
Colocated fragments and a strict schema changed how I think about data flow. This is the depth I want in my day-job craft, not just in side projects.
Small language features compound. The satisfy operator was one afternoon; there's a pile of these still to work through, and each one makes the compiler a better teammate.
02 · Log
Short entries, written the week I learn something. Unfinished on purpose.
The 2027 rebuild keeps a public log of what I learn, marks what AI helped with, and shows the prompts. Here's why.
“Help me turn these rough notes about rebuilding my portfolio into a short log entry about keeping an AI-assisted learning log in public. Keep it honest, first person, under 150 words.”
✦ the prompt that started it
03 · Essays
Essays on building software and learning in the open.
Essay 01
A blog dies of friction. A log survives it. Notes on choosing short, honest entries — and on marking exactly where AI helped.
Sep 2026 · 3 min read
Essay 02
Why I moved away from the classic portfolio template toward something that answers 'what does it feel like to work with this engineer' in ten seconds.
Feb 2025 · 2 min read
04 · Work
Tools I built for myself and for other people. Each one has a case study: the problem, the approach, and what I took away.
2024 — presentshipped
A fast dropdown selector for npm scripts inside VS Code.
2023 — presentongoing
Learning AI through interactive, branching visualizations.
2022 — 2023shipped
A transparent overlay for annotating anything on your screen.