Ricardo Cardoso

New York, United States · Remote

Built and shipped product experiences across web and mobile, spanning core chat UI, subscriptions, in-house advertising, virtual currency, Stories, and Trust & Safety.

• Launched and refined subscription conversion journeys: paywalls, upgrade entry points, free-trial placements, monthly-to-annual migration flows, purchase confirmation, onboarding carousels, lifecycle messaging, and contextual upsells.
• Helped deliver c.ai lite experiences, including launch messaging, onboarding, UI branding, ad-supported paywall entry points, and web/mobile feature parity.
• Built and maintained scalable in-house advertising surfaces across responsive web and mobile, supporting campaign rotations, creative variants, and series-specific promotions.
• Improved monetization observability by implementing and correcting purchase, subscription, charms, paywall, and content-view analytics instrumentation.
• Owned high-volume UI quality work across web and mobile: visual regressions, responsive layouts, currency formatting, accessibility, and release cleanup.
• Partnered across product, design, and engineering to rapidly ship experiments, validate iteration paths, and retire unsuccessful variants.

United States · Remote

Worked with React.js, Next.js, TailwindCSS, Node.js with Nest.js, Rails, Nx monorepo, React Native

Contributed to Wonderschool's mission of making quality early childhood education more accessible, leading the development of scalable web applications.

• Led linting patterns and testing/documentation standards using Vitest and Storybook.
• Led frontend engineering practices and framework choices.
• Developed a customizable onboarding platform to boost user engagement and streamline operations.
• Enhanced the company's design system and created utility libraries for multiple projects.

Brazil · Remote

Worked with React.js, Next.js, TailwindCSS, Rails

• Led front-end development, implementing and documenting scalable code patterns.
• Strengthened testing with unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Designed a dynamic onboarding tool featuring customizable forms.
• Collaborated closely with UX and Product to refine user experiences and streamline MVP definitions.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Remote

• Developed accessible components for the company's design systems.
• Helped build a monorepo design system for multiple brands and tech stacks.
• Created react-stub-component, a unit testing library based on the Testing Trophy.
• Established documentation guidelines for incident management.
• Spearheaded the migration from Scrum to Kanban, optimizing workflows.

Remote, through Toptal

• Worked alongside designers to rapidly deploy new features.
• Engineered an optimized data update strategy leveraging Shopify's API.
• Developed the company's B2B homepage and supporting pages.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Designed and managed an internal fraud investigation platform using Framer and Figma.
• Led a team of 2–6 developers and a product analyst, fostering professional growth.
• Trained new product analysts in Agile methodologies and product management.
• Automated business processes and analyzed fraud patterns to identify fraudulent actors.

Led front-end for the Risk department: app layout and UX, operational metrics, Vue.js development, and scrum master duties.

• Designed and launched a new risk investigation web app.
• Managed and guided a front-end team developing a Vue.js application.

Front-end for a C# authentication application using Razor and Vue.js. Redesigned the app (layout and logo) and acted as scrum master.

Worked with HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, WordPress

• Translated creative designs into pixel-perfect web applications.
• Developed WordPress themes for long-term client use.

IT support and process optimization for the finance department, Cognos reports (SQL), counterparty risk analysis, and bank guarantee documentation.

Worksheet automation (VBA), periodic reports, database creation and maintenance, and Central Bank data analysis.

DC motor control for solar panels (MATLAB, Simulink) and equipment monitoring platforms (LabView, CodeComposer).