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Victor Fernandes - Senior Frontend Engineer

Victor Fernandes

BuildingPerformantFrontends atScale

12 years fully remote across product companies - comfortable owning surfaces on a self-directed basis.

AI enablement and QA

  • Built AI-assisted frontend workflows using headless browsers and MCP loops to accelerate build cycles.
  • Unified 7 teams under a single UI framework, cutting bundle size by 6MB (20%) and increasing velocity.

Performance & scale

  • Built CleverTap's open-source Web SDK for engagement and analytics, now reaching 30k+ monthly npm downloads.
  • Shipped performance-sensitive web experiences, including a sub-2s in-browser AI video editor and multiple sub-1s FCP web apps.

Collaboration

  • Shaped engineering teams at 4 companies through 250+ technical interviews and mentorship from associate to staff level.
  • Owned critical frontend surfaces across onboarding, payments, messaging, and video at 3 companies.

Fulltime Experience

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Upwork

SSE -> Frontend Tech Lead

Mar 2023 - Present
United States (Remote)
  • Invited by Upwork HQ and joined them full time as a SSE. Continued working with their enterprise clients full-time.
  • DRI for direct messaging feature (20m+ users) while collaborating with multiple teams.
  • Ssemble: Led architecture overhaul of in-browser AI video editor - reduced project load time from 30s to under 2s through service workers, bundle optimization, and state management redesign.
  • Invelo: Built custom CRM for real estate acquisition using Inertia.js (Vue + Laravel)
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Airbase

Senior Frontend Engineer - I

Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
United States (Remote)
  • Owned Amex onboarding as DRI, coordinating Amex, Marqeta, and Plaid to ship a complex multi-vendor flow end-to-end. Enabling Amex cards.
  • Achieved 80% TypeScript and 100% test coverage for the Growth team.
  • Operated across Growth and Reimbursement teams simultaneously, owning frontend surfaces end-to-end.
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CleverTap

Senior Frontend Engineer

Sep 2019 - Aug 2021
Mumbai (Remote)
  • Initiated and shipped the open-source Web SDK for engagement and analytics, with 30k+ monthly npm downloads.
  • Built and launched CleverTap's own component library as a UI platform engineer collaborating with all product and design teams.
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Media.net

UI Developer - II

Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
Mumbai, IN
  • Built PWAs and analytics-facing web experiences using Vanilla JavaScript, React, Angular, PHP/Node, MySQL, and Redis.
  • Improved TTFB by 500% in a legacy PHP and MySQL application by implementing Redis.
  • Built a custom WordPress theme with sub-1 second load time and refactored codebases for speed, maintainability, and performance.
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Upwork

Freelancer

Apr 2011 - Apr 2018
Multiple (Remote)
  • Completed 120+ contracts with 100% job success ratio. Top rated plus.
  • Built multiple web sites and web-apps scoring close to 100 lighthouse.
  • Worked on LAMP and MERN stacks, adapting to any existing code base.
  • Built multiple custom WordPress themes and plugins.

Skills

AI workflows

  • Headless Browsers
  • MCP
  • design.md
  • LLM streaming UI
  • agents.md

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • SSR/ISR

Design & UX Craft

  • Design Systems
  • Accessible UI
  • Component Libraries
  • Animations

Performance & Quality

  • Web Performance
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Accessibility
  • Vitest
  • Playwright

Collaboration & Leadership

  • Remote Collaboration
  • Mentorship
  • Async Communication
  • Code Reviews

Education

Computer Science Engineering

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St Francis Institute of Technology

Mumbai, IN · 2015