Tiago Alves is a Staff Full Stack Engineer based in Lisbon with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and mobile products from MVP to production. He combines hands-on expertise across front-end (React, Tailwind), back-end (Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL) and DevOps, and has led cross-team initiatives and complex migrations at fast-growing startups like MoonPay. As an early engineer and tech lead on multiple teams, he helped scale MoonPay from ~40 to 300+ people while driving product and architecture decisions. He’s also a founder—creating Publisheet, an Excel-to-interactive-web publishing add-in—and has repeatedly bootstrapped full-stack products and infrastructure for startups. Known for unblocking teams and pragmatic system design, he has deep experience in real-time and networked applications and shipping React Native mobile apps.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Multimedia Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Multimedia Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
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Tiago Alves - Staff Full Stack Engineer at MoonPay