Summary
Joana Moreira is a software engineer with eight years of experience specializing in front-end development, currently contributing to UBS from Austin, Texas. She has a strong track record at financial firms including J.P. Morgan, and prior roles rebuilding and maintaining complex web apps at SearchPilot and Media 10. Skilled in JavaScript, React, TypeScript, SASS, Jest, Webpack and Docker, she routinely migrates legacy codebases to modern frameworks while ensuring solid test coverage and improved UX. Joana pairs hands-on coding with product-minded analytics—tracking feature usage to guide optimizations and prototyping. Her formal training includes Udacity front-end nanodegrees, and she brings an unusual academic background in criminology that informs a rigorous, investigative approach to debugging and quality. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who balances shipping improvements quickly with maintaining maintainable, well-tested front-end systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Criminology, Licentiate degree Criminology at Instituto Superior da Maia
Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree Web development, Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree Web development at Udacity