Ricardo Mestre
Senior Frontend Developer at Remote
Porto Metropolitan Area Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Mestre is a Senior Frontend Developer and people-oriented engineering lead with 11 years of experience building performant, user-focused web experiences from Porto, Portugal. He designed the frontend isolation and architecture for Farfetch’s checkout using VanillaJS, RequireJS and SASS for performance and modularity, and later led multidisciplinary teams to deliver a modern SPA checkout and data-driven product evolution. Comfortable across React, Node, modern JS toolchains, CI/CD and monitoring stacks, he pairs hands-on implementation with hiring and coaching responsibilities. Ricardo favors pragmatic, performance-first solutions and has a track record of turning complex e‑commerce flows into maintainable, testable frontends. Colleagues know him for blending UX sensitivity with engineering discipline and for bringing productivity and people development into the lifecycle of shipping software.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
masters, masters at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoLicensee, Licensee at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Github Skills (2)
jquery6
form-validation5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ricardojoaomestre/js-vanilla-form-validation
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
A simple but effective form validation that uses native browser validations and manages the error messages using data attributes. It's all vanilla, no jQuery used.
Contributions:2 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
form-validationjquery
ricardojoaomestre/snake-the_game
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Snake Game in Canvas
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
snakecanvasjavascriptin-gamesnake-game
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