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Hi, I’m Elías, a Senior UX/UI Designer and Frontend Developer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance digital products for enterprise clients across LATAM and the USA. I specialize in design-to-code workflows, design systems, and performance optimization, with proven impact in component reuse, load-time reduction, and accessibility (WCAG). I’m trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, English) and remote-first, experienced in leading cross-functional teams from discovery to deployment. I love turning complex problems into elegant, accessible interfaces and scalable frontend solutions. I partner closely with product and engineering to ship polished, maintainable experiences and reusable design patterns that drive business impact.…Hi, I’m Elías, a Senior UX/UI Designer and Frontend Developer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance digital products for enterprise clients across LATAM and the USA. I specialize in design-to-code workflows, design systems, and performance optimization, with proven impact in component reuse, load-time reduction, and accessibility (WCAG). I’m trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, English) and remote-first, experienced in leading cross-functional teams from discovery to deployment. I love turning complex problems into elegant, accessible interfaces and scalable frontend solutions. I partner closely with product and engineering to ship polished, maintainable experiences and reusable design patterns that drive business impact.

Elías Ricardo Araujo Santos

UX Designer, UI Designer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Elías, a Senior UX/UI Designer and Frontend Developer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance digital products for enterprise clients across LATAM and the USA. I specialize in design-to-code workflows, design systems, and performance optimization, with proven impact in component reuse, load-time reduction, and accessibility (WCAG). I’m trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, English) and remote-first, experienced in leading cross-functional teams from discovery to deployment. I love turning complex problems into elegant, accessible interfaces and scalable frontend solutions. I partner closely with product and engineering to ship polished, maintainable experiences and reusable design patterns that drive business impact.…Hi, I’m Elías, a Senior UX/UI Designer and Frontend Developer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance digital products for enterprise clients across LATAM and the USA. I specialize in design-to-code workflows, design systems, and performance optimization, with proven impact in component reuse, load-time reduction, and accessibility (WCAG). I’m trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, English) and remote-first, experienced in leading cross-functional teams from discovery to deployment. I love turning complex problems into elegant, accessible interfaces and scalable frontend solutions. I partner closely with product and engineering to ship polished, maintainable experiences and reusable design patterns that drive business impact.

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Hi, I’m Elías, a Senior UX/UI Designer and Frontend Developer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance digital products for enterprise clients across LATAM and the USA. I specialize in design-to-code workflows, design systems, and performance optimization, with proven impact in component reuse, load-time reduction, and accessibility (WCAG). I’m trilingual (Portuguese, Spanish, English) and remote-first, experienced in leading cross-functional teams from discovery to deployment.

I love turning complex problems into elegant, accessible interfaces and scalable frontend solutions. I partner closely with product and engineering to ship polished, maintainable experiences and reusable design patterns that drive business impact.

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Intermediate

Language

Portuguese

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

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English

Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance Frontend Developer & Designer at Trail Merge

August 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Built and deployed 85+ pages for a landscaping SaaS platform in 2.5 months. Managed the technical architecture across Next.js, Angular, and Astro to meet evolving business requirements. Implemented responsive interfaces using Tailwind CSS and Shadcn UI, ensuring pixel-perfect alignment with design specs. Developed a reusable component library to standardize UI patterns and reduce developer overhead.

Freelance UX/UI & Frontend Developer at Oliver Agency

December 1, 2024 - Present

Delivered optimized Salesforce Marketing Cloud email campaigns and digital marketing collateral for high-profile clients such as Serasa Experian, Danone, and Stellantis. Designed responsive email templates with pixel-perfect alignment across rendering engines. Built custom automation workflows using AI tools with Cursor-assisted development, reducing production time by 87.5% (from 80 to 10–20 minutes per campaign). Managed the migration and localization of digital products from Spain to Latin America, resolving complex WordPress infrastructure challenges.

UX/UI Designer at Zurich Insurance Group

May 1, 2024 - November 30, 2024

Led website redesign for Zurich Brazil, conducted user research and competitive analysis to identify friction points. Created interactive Figma prototypes to validate design decisions with stakeholders. Implemented GA4 and GTM to establish analytics tracking, enabling data-driven optimization of conversion flows.

Contractor Lead Designer & Frontend Developer at Toolzz

March 1, 2022 - July 31, 2025

Led design and frontend development for an enterprise LMS platform serving 100+ institutions. Improved operational efficiency for educational institutions by streamlining content creation and delivery through AI-powered workflows. Designed an AI content generation tool (text-to-image, speech-to-text, image-to-video) focused on simplifying complex workflows. Scaled the mobile app to 500+ active users through iterative design and usability testing. Implemented responsive interfaces using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Shadcn UI.