Tiago de Almeida Schmidt
Senior Front End Developer
Porto Alegre, RS — Brazil
Summary
Senior Front End Developer with 10+ years building React/TypeScript applications for global products (Deel, Indeed, Petco, Alamo). I bridge tech and business teams to ship accessible, fast, and reliable user interfaces — with accessibility, usability, and web performance as core pillars.
Experienced working across distributed, async, multi-continent teams, and mentoring developers along the way. I integrate AI features into production web apps — from streaming chat interfaces and tool-calling agents to RAG pipelines and AI-assisted developer workflows — and I build full-stack products end to end as a solo developer.
Experience
Web Front End Developer · Deel
Front end development for a payroll payments platform focused on Professional Employer Organization (PEO) and US organization registrations. React with an internal design system, React Query, TanStack libraries and MUI, working with teams across North America, LATAM, Europe and Asia.
Senior Web Front End Developer · Indeed
Front end development for the job search platform with an emphasis on accessibility, maintaining and shipping new features in a React/TypeScript codebase. Team based mostly in Latin America, collaborating with squads across the Americas.
Senior Web Front End Developer · Adaptive Build
Front end development for a financial SaaS platform for real estate and construction companies, using React/TypeScript with Redux and Context. Worked with colleagues in the USA and Brazil and end users in the USA, maintaining existing features and building new ones like digital Lien Waivers and data propagation flows between multiple objects with custom user options. Also contributed to the Django back end.
Senior Web Front End Developer · Everest ERP
Front end development for an ERP framework built from back-end-driven templates using React components and a proprietary GraphQL-based network layer. Worked with teams in Germany, USA, Vietnam and Brazil, supporting the ERP core — from financial to accounting flows — plus developer support, performance, usability and design system maintenance.
Senior Web Front End Developer · Oowlish / Petco
Front end development for the Petco e-commerce website on a Next.js/React architecture, supporting the business team with enhancements and new features like new payment methods. Async team across multiple time zones, helping new developers ramp up on the project.
Senior Web Front End Developer · Triider
Front end development focused on SEO and Web Vitals. Led the migration of a legacy Handlebars/LESS website to React with Next.js, moving all Web Vitals from red to green in 1.5 months.
Senior Web Front End Developer · IWS Isobar Brazil
Front end development mainly for the Enterprise and Alamo Rent a Car websites, integrating with Adobe AEM, .NET, Sitecore and Drupal back ends. Most projects used React with Redux, with a focus on usability and accessibility. Worked from small local teams to multi-continent ones, mentoring new talents, colleagues and interns.
Web Front End Developer · Bode.io
Front end development for learning platforms, CRMs, e-commerce, corporate websites and landing pages, mostly in Python/Django environments with SASS and JavaScript, plus back-end work in Django. Projects included Muambator, a tracker for Brazilian shoppers’ international purchases, where I rebuilt the tracking interface as a faster, mobile-first experience.
Quality Analyst · ITS System
Quality assurance for financial applications at Banco Topázio and Topázio Cartões. Led the QA team to improve processes, connect more closely with development, and introduce new tools and methodologies.
Quality Analyst Assistant · Stefanini / Dell
Quality analysis for Dell applications covering financial, insurance, security systems and POS. Mentored new trainees on Dell’s processes and QA methodologies.
Project Manager — POC · Ação Informática / GIS Solutions
Internal project management for Geographic Information Systems proofs of concept using the iSmart framework with Oracle Spatial. Also supported technicians on IBM hardware maintenance and new implementations.
Projects
Casting marketplace connecting creative talent with producers and agencies across film, TV, theater and digital content. Built from scratch: architecture, back-end API, multiple user roles, AI-powered matching, AI-generated casting-call flyers, swipe-based matching, direct messaging, talent search with production-grade filters, and a community bounty system. Now in open beta.
React · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · React Native · OpenAI API
Mood-based movie picker: describe how you feel, tune energy, tone and pace, and get tailored film recommendations powered by OpenAI GPT.
React · TypeScript · Vite · Tailwind · OpenAI GPT
Lupah Imóveis
Real estate platform for a Curitiba agency (buy, sell, rent, property management). Built front end, back end and API with a strong focus on SEO, a conversion-focused listing experience, and integration with external property marketplaces.
Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind
Digital library of professionally modeled 3D Archicad objects based on real Brazilian furniture brands, with free registration and per-object downloads. Built in Django with a focus on SEO, usability and subscription integrations.
Django · Python
Turns messy bullet-point session notes into immersive, fantasy-style narrative text for Dungeon Masters and players.
React · Vite · Tailwind · Gemini API
Music player for tabletop RPG tables to play ambient music and soundscapes during sessions.
React
Skills
- Front End
- HTML / CSS / Optimization, JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Next.js, Context / Redux / Recoil / React Query
- Back End
- Python (Django / Flask), Node.js, PHP (Laravel), REST / GraphQL, Next.js API routes
- AI
- OpenAI (ChatGPT) API, Gemini API, Streaming chat, Tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines, Claude Code (daily driver)
- Other
- Team Leadership / Mentoring, Web Accessibility, CI / Vite / Webpack
Languages
- Portuguese
- Native
- English
- Fluent