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I am a results-driven full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience and a proven track record of taking products from 0 to 1. I thrive in fast-moving startup environments and love shipping scalable systems that users actually rely on. I enjoy mentoring teammates and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, maintainable software. Known for product ownership, adaptability, and clear communication, I relish tackling new challenges, designing thoughtful architectures, and building cross-functional teams that continuously improve. I’m always eager to learn and apply the latest in AI, cloud, and full-stack patterns to deliver meaningful impact.…I am a results-driven full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience and a proven track record of taking products from 0 to 1. I thrive in fast-moving startup environments and love shipping scalable systems that users actually rely on. I enjoy mentoring teammates and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, maintainable software. Known for product ownership, adaptability, and clear communication, I relish tackling new challenges, designing thoughtful architectures, and building cross-functional teams that continuously improve. I’m always eager to learn and apply the latest in AI, cloud, and full-stack patterns to deliver meaningful impact.

André Paliao

Full Stack Developer, Front-End Developer, Back-End Developer, +2

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I am a results-driven full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience and a proven track record of taking products from 0 to 1. I thrive in fast-moving startup environments and love shipping scalable systems that users actually rely on. I enjoy mentoring teammates and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, maintainable software. Known for product ownership, adaptability, and clear communication, I relish tackling new challenges, designing thoughtful architectures, and building cross-functional teams that continuously improve. I’m always eager to learn and apply the latest in AI, cloud, and full-stack patterns to deliver meaningful impact.…I am a results-driven full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience and a proven track record of taking products from 0 to 1. I thrive in fast-moving startup environments and love shipping scalable systems that users actually rely on. I enjoy mentoring teammates and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, maintainable software. Known for product ownership, adaptability, and clear communication, I relish tackling new challenges, designing thoughtful architectures, and building cross-functional teams that continuously improve. I’m always eager to learn and apply the latest in AI, cloud, and full-stack patterns to deliver meaningful impact.

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I am a results-driven full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience and a proven track record of taking products from 0 to 1. I thrive in fast-moving startup environments and love shipping scalable systems that users actually rely on. I enjoy mentoring teammates and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, maintainable software.

Known for product ownership, adaptability, and clear communication, I relish tackling new challenges, designing thoughtful architectures, and building cross-functional teams that continuously improve. I’m always eager to learn and apply the latest in AI, cloud, and full-stack patterns to deliver meaningful impact.

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Work Experience

Founding Engineer at BarricadeAI

February 1, 2025 - March 1, 2026

Led stability, performance, and scalability goals end-to-end; architected multi-tenant migrations, reducing provisioning time from hours to minutes and cutting infrastructure costs by about 90%. Implemented and improved LLM agents and streaming mechanisms; built a complex orchestrator pattern with advanced type inference using the AI SDK. Owned the core queue system for processing and managing data using BullMQ, while introducing real-time sync with Redis Pub/Sub and Server-Sent Events. Added LLM observability, analytics metrics, and error tracing; built dashboards essential for platform governance. Delivered an end-to-end unlimited multi-video upload platform, removing bottlenecks and lowering drop-off rates.

Senior Full-stack Engineer at Islands

January 1, 2022 - July 1, 2025

Modernized codebase, established coding standards, and led improvements that helped grow the team from 4 to 32 employees; contributions improved client satisfaction and strengthened team culture. Engineered a dynamic infinite-scroll table that handled 20,000+ items with virtualization and custom SQL filters, enabling rapid client data capture for 300,000+ domains. Managed a four-person team to build a time-tracking and wage-management SaaS from 0 to 1, cutting internal tooling costs by 50%. Rebuilt checkout pages, integrating Stripe and enabling a Stripe-based sales funnel across 50,000+ domains.

Founding Engineer at gStudio

August 1, 2020 - September 1, 2022

Owned the codebase and led a cross-functional team of 3–6 engineers; defined engineering workflows, code review processes, and technical standards. Built the core No-Code editor with drag-and-drop components, data fetching, authentication, theming, and responsive design using Next.js, Redux, Chakra UI, and GraphQL. Rebuilt a complex deployment pipeline that takes a JSON schema and deploys a production-ready GraphQL API using AWS CDK, DynamoDB, AppSync, and VTL. Implemented sophisticated database modeling and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and AWS CDK for cloud provisioning. Mentored team members and deepened expertise in modern full-stack patterns across the entire application life cycle.

Full-stack Engineer at City Test Prep

August 1, 2019 - September 1, 2021

Acted as lead developer, collaborating with the Product Owner to own the full product life cycle from architecture through deployment. Built multi-role dashboards for managers and students, using Firebase rules and Cloud Functions with database triggers. Integrated multiple payment providers (Stripe, PayPal), enabling license management and built-in feature access control.

Frontend Developer at ONLi Insurance

January 1, 2019 - June 1, 2020

Owned a complex dynamic form mechanism enabling shareable configurations across a wide span of insurance types (Life, Auto, Home, etc.). Built multiple web apps for quoting and selling insurance, and internal dashboards for policy and claims configuration. Performed dozens of API integrations (including legacy documentation) and was the main frontend contributor for the company.

Frontend Developer at dod

March 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019

Owned multiple dashboards to consume processed data spanning education to retail verticals. Worked with a multi-facing team (visual computing, IoT, business and data) to help achieve a wide set of products.

Front end Developer at ONLi Insurance

January 1, 2019 - June 1, 2020

Front-end Developer; Owned a dynamic form mechanism enabling shareable configurations across insurance types (Life, Auto, Home, etc.). Built multiple web apps for quoting and selling insurance and internal dashboards for policy and claims configuration. Performed dozens of API integrations and was the main frontend contributor to the company.

Front end Developer at dod

March 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019

Front-end Developer; Owned multiple dashboards to consume processed data spanning education to retail verticals. Worked with a multi-faceted team (visual computing, IoT, business and data) to help achieve a wide set of products.