Summary
Miguel Branco is a Lead Frontend Engineer based in Lisbon with 11 years of experience building Progressive Web Apps, Electron apps and browser-first interfaces. He blends strong front-end expertise in TypeScript, Angular and Sass with practical back-end and infrastructure skills—having worked with SBCL, Gerrit/Jenkins CI pipelines and Dockerized deployments. At easypay he leads frontend efforts for payments, building on prior long-term PWA work at SISCOG where he maintained research-grade applications. Comfortable bridging web and native paradigms (Cordova/PhoneGap experience) and shipping across platforms, he favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions informed by a solid academic foundation from Instituto Superior Técnico. Notably, his background spans both product-facing UI engineering and behind-the-scenes build/release automation, making him effective at delivering end-to-end frontend systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, 17, Master's degree, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, 17 at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English