Vandré Leal Cândido
Fullstack Engineer
Building scalable web applications, API integration layers, and developer tools for over 10 years. Currently at
Experience
10+
years building for the web
Education
M.Sc. Computer Science
Federal University of Uberlândia
Currently at
3y 3m
Stream
Senior Fullstack Engineer
Based in
Uberlândia
Minas Gerais, Brazil
What drives me
I'm drawn to scalable, maintainable solutions and thrive on code organization challenges. Lately, I've been excited about Astro for content-driven websites and the TanStack ecosystem for routing, data fetching, and table management.
Work
Senior Fullstack Engineer
2025 — Present
Driving the architecture and evolution of the dashboard API integration layer with OpenAPI, improving performance and developer experience. Contributing to a design system and internal tooling, and collaborating on AI-assisted workflows with reusable agent patterns.
Senior Frontend Engineer
2023 — 2025
Contributed to launching product pricing pages and a Video & Audio Pricing Calculator with Next.js. Collaborated on consolidating company documentation into a unified Astro platform. Improved developer workflows by optimizing GitHub Actions pipelines and introducing linting standards.
Senior Frontend Engineer
Senior Frontend Engineer,
2021 — 2022
Worked on establishing the architecture for migrating the legacy website to Next.js with incremental static regeneration and SEO optimizations. Delivered features for the Property Management System and led development of a new blog platform with Gatsby and WordPress.
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer,
2016 — 2021
Contributed to developing modern frontends with React, Redux, Gatsby, and Apollo GraphQL. Participated in building backend systems with AdonisJS, .NET, and Laravel. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align development efforts with product objectives.
Writing
Thoughts on architecture, tooling, and craft
Caching Sharp-Processed Images in Static Builds
How I cut documentation build times by hashing image inputs, committing the preprocessed webp outputs, and skipping image work on every CI run.
AI-Assisted Development Workflows
Exploring how reusable agent patterns and AI-powered skills can improve engineering consistency and productivity.
Building Type-Safe APIs with OpenAPI
How I leveraged OpenAPI specs to automate type generation and eliminate integration errors across a production dashboard.
Projects
Open source and side projects
Web app that visualizes near-Earth objects and NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day using the NeoWs and APOD APIs.
Vacation rental platform UI featuring property search, filtering, and sorting flows with real-time GraphQL data fetching.
Official Dracula theme port for Fluent Terminal. Part of the Dracula open-source color scheme ecosystem used across 300+ apps and editors.