Accomplished software engineer with 15+ years of experience, in recent years focused on building and scaling design systems, most recently at the intersection of design systems and AI-driven development. Founding architect of Sous Chef, 7shifts' design system. When AI coding agents began bypassing the system, reinventing components and shipping inconsistent, dark-mode-breaking UI to production, led the initiative to fix it: an MCP server on Storybook that teaches agents to use the system correctly, later presented at Tech Tank Toronto.
Experience
/work-historySenior Frontend Engineer, XD (Design System)
01/2026 – Present
7shifts - Saskatoon, Canada
- Design System Team Formation: Joined 7shifts' newly formed Design System team (XD) as a founding member, taking full ownership of Sous Chef after years of building it as part of broader Developer Experience work.
- AI Agent Enablement: Took ownership of the problem before anyone assigned it: identified that AI coding agents across product teams were bypassing Sous Chef, reinventing components, ignoring dark mode tokens, and shipping inconsistent UI to production. Led a hackathon initiative that turned into an official design system roadmap item.
- MCP Server for Design Systems: Built an MCP server on top of Storybook that gives AI agents structured context to correctly discover and use Sous Chef components, restoring UI consistency at the point of AI generated code. Presented the approach at Tech Tank Toronto.
Senior Frontend Engineer, Developer Experience
02/2022 – 12/2025
7shifts - Saskatoon, Canada
- Design System Architecture: Led planning and foundational architecture of the Sous Chef component library, transforming a fragmented shared folder structure into a scalable, accessible, themeable system.
- Dark Mode Architecture: Orchestrated end to end implementation of the platform's most requested feature via a scalable semantic color token system across a complex, multi team codebase, improving accessibility for night shift managers.
- Build Tooling: Contributed to the Vite and TypeScript build system underpinning 7shifts' main web app, improving the foundation the entire product team ships on.
- Developer Enablement & Tooling: Established internal frontend learning groups and led recurring company wide training sessions, mentoring engineers on design system best practices while fostering a "No Ego" culture. Integrated Storybook and Chromatic into CI/CD to automate visual regression testing and cut design to production friction.
Senior Frontend Engineer
11/2021 – 02/2022
Living Skies Technologies - Saskatoon, Canada
- Quality Rescue Engagement: Joined to stabilize a startup's product after a failed launch driven by customer facing bugs and an untyped JavaScript codebase with no linting or unit tests; introduced TypeScript, linting, and unit testing to establish a real testing pyramid instead of relying on end to end coverage alone.
- Stabilization Impact: Within one month, brought the product back to full working order, freeing the team to shift focus from firefighting to shipping new features and product enhancements.
Fullstack Software Engineer
01/2019 – 10/2021
7shifts Inc - Saskatoon, Canada
- Core Feature Migration: Led architectural migration of the Scheduling Page, the company's core product domain, from PHP rendered templates to a high performance React SPA, engineering frontend architecture for real time data interactions.
- Fullstack Lifecycle Ownership: Managed end to end delivery, from database optimization and PHP APIs to polished React UI components.
Early Career: Software Developer / System Analyst Developer
03/2010 – 12/2018
Totvs · Metalúrgica Schiffer SA - Brazil
- Built and maintained enterprise ERP systems, from internal process automation tools at Metalúrgica Schiffer to large scale ERP solutions at Totvs, Latin America's largest software company, serving thousands of corporate clients.
- Worked across the full stack with Spring Boot, Angular, and Ionic, while resolving performance bottlenecks in legacy modules.
Education
/foundationsAnalysis and System Development
08/2010 – 12/2014
Federal Technology University of Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil
Computer Technician
01/2009 – 06/2010
SENAI, Brazil
Projects
/communityRezme - Personal Project
- AI-Powered Resume Builder: Built an AI-assisted resume tool from scratch as a personal project, including its own MCP server, the same server used to author this resume, enabling structured AI interaction with resume data.