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Careful engineering, calmly delivered

I help product teams turn complicated domains into interfaces people trust on their busiest day.

Portrait of Adrian Vasquez

I design and build calm, reliable product experiences for teams in fintech, health and B2B SaaS. Eleven years shipping interfaces that stay fast, accessible and maintainable.

Most of my work sits where design and engineering overlap: mapping messy domain states, shaping the smallest system that covers them, and shipping it behind flags so teams can learn in production without drama.

I work best embedded with a small team, pairing with designers and support staff, and leaving behind documentation the next engineer can actually follow.

Capabilities

Skills I bring to a team

Engineering

TypeScript
React
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Testing & CI

Design

Design systems
Prototyping
Accessibility
Figma

Practice

Discovery workshops
Technical strategy
Mentoring

Languages

How I communicate

  • English

    Native
  • Portuguese

    Fluent
  • Spanish

    Fluent
  • German

    Conversational

History

Where I have worked

  1. Senior Product Engineer · Northbridge Financial

    2022 — Present

    Lead engineer on the payments console used by 40k business customers. Cut median task time by 38% through a rebuilt information architecture.

  2. Product Engineer · Helio Health

    2019 — 2022

    Built the clinician scheduling suite and an accessible component library adopted by five product teams.

  3. Frontend Developer · Studio Kern

    2015 — 2019

    Delivered 30+ marketing and commerce builds for European brands, owning performance and SEO outcomes.

Education

  • University of Porto BSc Computer Science

    2011 — 2015
  • Interaction Design Foundation UX Certification

    2018