# Paulo Do Nascimento Jr. > Full Stack Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/paulo Fast-learning and passionate front-end engineer with experience in game development, client-facing website work, and implementation of internal productivity tools and processes. Interested in solving challenging problems of any form and always looking for new technologies to master. ## Work Experience ### Independent Full-Stack Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Present - Spearheaded the development of "Wtrd," a React Native application aimed at enhancing plant care routines, bringing the project close to an MVP stage through iterative testing and user experience optimization. Although not yet publicly available, the project stands as a testament to advanced React Native and app development skills. - Initiated and led a daily movie trivia app called "StarGrids" with a junior engineer, focusing on creating an innovative digital platform while fostering an environment conducive to learning and professional growth. Progressed towards an MVP, demonstrating effective project management and mentorship in a developmental setting. The project is in the final stages before public release. - Successfully revitalized a custom fantasy football league web application, making it publicly accessible and improving its functionality with SSR using Flask and Jinja2. This involved taking over an existing and unmaintained codebase and implementing complex user management features, including account creation, league management, and lineup creation with real-time score updates, showcasing proficiency in full-stack development and live project deployment. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Univfy Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Managed multiple projects as the sole full-stack engineer using Vue.js, Node.js, Express.js, and TypeScript, ensuring timely delivery and client satisfaction. - Developed Codex, a SQL database for standardizing data translation across 20+ clinics, improving efficiency by 100% - Collaborated with CTO to split a large Vue.js repository into specialized TypeScript repositories, streamlining the platform and enabling it to mirror legacy site and features. ### Software Engineer @ Pathrise Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area - Employed Scrum methodology and used Kanban boards to drive improvements in the core platform while participating in code reviews and sprint planning. - Reduced user job application pipeline creation time by 60% and batch archiving time from several minutes to ~5s using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and React. - Developed and styled reusable React.js components in accordance with UI mockups, integrating both custom and third-party APIs. - Designed the database model using PostgreSQL, developed the back-end API with Ruby on Rails, and migrated schema for a user-uploaded shortcut and snippet library. ### WebGL Engineer @ PLAYSTUDIOS Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Burlingame, California - Led an ad monetization initiative using Haxe and C#, driving $8k in revenue via 1 mil+ impressions and securing an above-industry-average daily engagement rate of 6-7% over 5 months. - Implemented full-stack ad code, utilizing third-party APIs and iteratively refining the UI to maximize Daily Engaged Users (DEU), engagement rate, and eCPM. Commanded a 7-member team using Agile methods, delivering 5 daily quests and 10-20+ unique blockers and assets weekly. - Migrated 10 slot games from Flash to HTML5 Canvas using a custom WebGL slot game framework, incorporating sound and 3D assets. ### Associate Marketing Web Developer @ Conversant Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area - Designed reusable modules of code enabling designers and marketers to easily and sustainably update website content - Collaborated with 5 teams in 3 countries to create robust GDPR app allowing users to view and delete all data collected on them - Automated previously manual site maintenance via a suite of Node.js scripts featuring HubSpot API and Grunt task runners - Implemented Python script to automatically download website assets and data to a secure proprietary server ### Web Application Developer @ University of Chicago IT Services Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area Created web applications for use by University of Chicago faculty and students. Wrote web applications in HTML5/ CSS3, PHP, and jQuery. Worked with a third-party API (Instructure) to create dynamic websites that successfully sent information to University of Chicago's production-level learning management system, Canvas, at https://canvas.uchicago.edu/ ### Part-Time Webscraper @ TableSavvy Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Used Python and the urllib module to scrape OpenTable for daily and hourly reservation information, saving results into an Excel spreadsheet. ### Data Analyst Intern @ SportsManias Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 At SportsManias, I learned about deep learning algorithms and machine learning, eventually implementing recurrent and feed-forward neural networks for a number of things. First, I used Google's word2vec Python module to produce an NLP model for a 3GB text file sourced from Wikipedia. Using the skills learned from that, I used the Python modules NNet, Theano, and Lasagne to produce a neural network to perform sentiment analysis on a database of several thousand iMDB movie reviews. Finally, I used Ruby to write a script to download hundreds of tweets using Twitter's API, and using input parameters such as the name of a sports team or a baseball player, used the NLP model in a neural network to return "true" if the tweet was relevant, and "false" otherwise. ### Communications and Marketing Intern @ Flex.io Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chicago, IL - Flex.io is a startup specializing in cloud-based data management and sharing. - Developed content for new website home page and product page. - Compiled design feedback on comparable websites & researched comparable website front pages. - Gave feedback and bug-tested the Flex.io app. - Helped update Twitter account with regular tweets using Buffer. - Researched hypothesis testing for social media outreach - for example, is posting datasets on reddit a good or a bad idea? - Wrote a blog post on data visualizations and the benefits of open data. - Wrote another blog post on the NFL using data analysis (regressions in Stata, R, etc.) - Became a student of the Lean Startup methodology. ### Lead Content Developer @ Ray Dass Test Prep Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Led a team of content developers. - Created and oversaw the uploading process of content for iOS app. - Delegated content creation assignments. - Collected new content from other developers. - Created content for PSAT test prep application on iOS. - Translated content from plain text to HTML. - Managed 200+ items and growing in Excel databse. ### Economics Research Assistant @ University of Chicago Department of Economics Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chicago, IL - Assisted in graduate research focusing on the marriage tax. - Gathered and analyzed data with Stata. - Generated population-weighted histograms with Stata. - Generated bar graphs of marriage tax by couple type with Stata. ### Content Creator @ Learnerator, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chicago IL - Leanerator is a company specializing in AP and SAT practice for high school studens. - Created three 1,500- to 4,000-word articles every two weeks. - Edited articles according to set format - Researched topics in AP US History to combine with articles. ### Social Media Intern @ AnonyMonkey, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 - AnonyMonkey is a startup building a platform for anonymous crushes and confessions pages on Facebook. - Managed the social media marketing campaign for the country of Brazil. - Promoted use of the platform for universities throughout Brazil. - Co-ordinated with college group admins to discuss promotion and marketing campaign protocol on Facebook. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Economics University of Chicago Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### High School American Heritage School Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/paulo-do-nascimento-jr - GitHub: https://github.com/pnasciment0 - Website: https://walkthevote.us/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/paulo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/paulo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20