Summary
Ricardo Côrtes is a Berlin-based frontend founder and UI specialist with over a decade of experience building polished, accessible web interfaces using React, Next.js, TypeScript and component libraries. He combines designer instincts with engineering rigor—frequently collaborating with product, design and backend teams to ship reusable components, A/B experiments and robust cross-chain web3 UIs. His background spans enterprise e-commerce and mobility projects to blockchain and NFT storefronts, and he’s led frontend work for clients like Volkswagen, Daimler and Condor. As founder of Maloca.art he pairs technical leadership with cultural entrepreneurship, producing festivals and community-building platforms that amplify immigrant and Brazilian creative networks in Berlin. Known for writing maintainable, testable code and driving design-to-implementation workflows in Figma and Material UI, he also brings hands-on experience managing large communities and marketing for crypto projects.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Extension Ausbildung Front-End Development, Extension Ausbildung Front-End Development at Caelum
Bachelor’s Degree Industrie Design/Gestaltung, Bachelor’s Degree Industrie Design/Gestaltung at Universidade Gama Filho
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German