Luis Mendes

Co-founder and product engineer of Clair, a media outlet on the practical uses of AI in marketing and communication.

I designed and developed the entire platform, from back-end to front-end, up to production deployment:

• Complete SaaS product: Stripe subscriptions (payments, portal, webhooks), paywall, member area, magic-link authentication.

• Custom editorial CMS: block-based writing, AI-assisted content and summary generation, versioning.

• Applied AI: speech synthesis (automatic podcast of articles), content curation and enrichment, SEO.

• Stack: FastAPI, Next.js/React, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker, Cloudinary, continuous deployment on Railway.

• Quality culture: 300+ automated tests, CI, downtime-free database migrations.

• Design and delivery of custom business applications (CRM, stock management) for SMEs.

• Fullstack development (FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, Docker), API integration, and DevOps practices.

• Built an automated newsletter platform with AI-powered content curation, web scraping, and email marketing integration.

• Led digital transformation and collaborated closely with business stakeholders.

Orchestrated end-to-end automation of key processes leveraging SQL, Power Automate, Python, significantly enhancing workflow efficiencies across various organizational domains resulting in substantial savings equivalent to several Full-Time Employees.

Developed and implemented Power BI dashboards for activity monitoring, providing real-time insights and enhancing decision-making processes across various teams.