About

With over 7 years of experience working as a full stack software engineer, I worked in a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, e-commerce and security.

Early on I developed a personal connection with the area of user experience, which helped me shape and deliver better products focused on user needs, experiences and interactions. As a natural evolution of that I also became a product minded engineer, focusing on building and shipping products that solve users problems and create real value.

Currently I consider myself a product engineer and I want to continue growing my skills to also become a design engineer. Is there anything more full stack than that?

During those 7+ years I worked with a many different programming languages, frameworks, and tools. The ones I have more experience with are JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NodeJS and Postgres, but my favorite programming language is Elixir and my favorite framework is Phoenix.

brunoanken@gmail.com

Career

March 2025 – Present

Senior Software Engineer - Neo Health

Remote

Led end-to-end development of user onboarding system encompassing account creation, authentication, questionnaire, assessment, and billing integration, serving Neo’s first alpha users while creating from scratch a component library/design system for the app, speeding up the engineering team when creating UI features
Proactively drove improvement in user experience by redesigning core interaction patterns: standardized responsive layouts, enhanced form accessibility, optimized messaging interfaces, and developed reusable component library
Reduced user acquisition friction through implementation of OAuth 2.0 social authentication (Google/Apple), decreasing average signup time from 2 minutes to less than 20 seconds, creating event driven Python AWS Lambda functions to increase robustness and consistency of users data ingestion
Decreased app size bundle on iOS from 259 Mb to 44Mb (83.12% reduction) by moving image assets to a CDN

February 2025 – March 2025

Software Engineer - TRM Labs

Remote

Designed and initiated implementation of advanced data obfuscation mechanisms in servers (NodeJS, FeathersJS) and databases (Postgres) to meet enhanced security requirements for high-sensitivity customers

March 2021 - December 2024

Senior Software Engineer - Route

Remote

Spearheaded the transition to a micro frontends architecture (React, Custom Elements) for the company’s legacy administrative dashboard for merchants, eventually assuming the role of technical leader, lowering the time needed to ship new features to users
Led the design and implementation of key features, including Stripe payments integrations, app-wide language localization, per brand public web page appearance customization and a new onboarding experience using React, Redux, Jotai, Tailwind and Styled Components, implementing automated tests with Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress and using TDD techniques
Developed Backend-for-Frontends using NodeJS and Go, increasing the team’s autonomy, ensuring application security and honoring customers plans (SAAS) constraints
Implemented RESTful services in Go, connected to PostgreSQL databases
Ensured a user-centric approach by prioritizing intuitive UX and thoroughly identifying and addressing edge cases for reliable performance and experience and discussing pros, cons and alternative paths with the product and design teams

September 2020 - March 2021

Software Engineer - SWAP

Remote

Architected and implemented a card transactions webhook system (Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, Oban), enabling near real-time credit card transaction notifications for end users
Built REST and GraphQL APIs with Phoenix, backed by PostgreSQL, to integrate with a partner Ledger and also to serve a white-label mobile app

December 2018 - July 2020

Software Engineer - Medpass

São Paulo, Brazil

Designed and implemented robust REST APIs with Go and Python to power the aforementioned applications, storing data in DynamoDB and MySQL and ensuring reliability and scalability
Built a consumer-facing mobile app (React Native), a web app enabling chat and video calls with healthcare professionals (VueJS and Nuxt), and a dashboard web app for managing user interactions (React)

March 2018 – December 2018

Sotware Engineer - Acesso (now Bankly)

São Paulo, Brazil

Developed the entire front-end (React) for a new feature enabling users to purchase prepaid cards using a credit card, ensuring a seamless user experience
Redesigned the core user dashboard (React), introducing new components and styles to enhance functionality and align with the company's design system