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I'm Fidalgo — a software engineer based in Aveiro, Portugal.
In 2018, I decided it was time for a change. I started teaching myself JavaScript before work, fell in love with it, and in January 2019 I quit my job to go all in. Six months later I landed my first engineering role at Mindera in the UK, where I grew into a full-stack developer — most notably working on Dunelm, one of the UK's largest home furnishings retailers.
Today I'm a Product Engineer at Prolific, where I focus on making the platform better for everyone who uses it — from leading accessibility initiatives and building design system components, to improving internal tooling and mentoring engineers across teams. When I'm building for myself, I reach for React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Postgres.
Outside of work, I build my own things. Zerosum is a budgeting app I built from scratch — a real SaaS product with real users. I like solving problems that I personally have, and turning them into something others can use too.