Vandré Leal Cândido
Fullstack Engineer
Ten years on the layer between product teams and the systems they consume. Currently at Stream(opens in new tab), focused on dashboard architecture, design systems, and AI workflows.
About
Experience
10+
years building for the web
Education
2017 - 2020
Federal University of Uberlândia
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 of the dashboard's API integration layer on OpenAPI, a platform other product teams build on. Setting direction for design-system tooling and internal developer experience. Defining reusable agent patterns for AI-assisted workflows the team adopts.
Senior Frontend Engineer
2023 - 2025
Shipped the product pricing pages and the Video & Audio Pricing Calculator on Next.js. Consolidated company documentation into a unified Astro platform. Tightened developer workflows by optimizing GitHub Actions pipelines and introducing linting standards across repositories.
Senior Frontend Engineer
Senior Frontend Engineer, Sketch(opens in new tab)
2022
Shipped the education-plan launch features that unlocked access for students and educators. Scoped product requirements and built internal dashboard tools on React and GraphQL.
Senior Frontend Engineer
AvantStay(opens in new tab)2021 - 2022Senior Frontend Engineer, AvantStay(opens in new tab)
2021 - 2022
Established the architecture for migrating the legacy website to Next.js with incremental static regeneration and SEO baked in. Delivered features for the Property Management System. Led development of a new blog platform on Gatsby and WordPress.
Senior Software Engineer
Argano(opens in new tab)2016 - 2021Senior Software Engineer, Argano(opens in new tab)
2016 - 2021
Built modern frontends with React, Redux, Gatsby, and Apollo GraphQL. Developed backend systems on AdonisJS, .NET, and Laravel. Partnered with cross-functional teams to align engineering with product strategy.
Software Engineer
Callink(opens in new tab)2015 - 2016Software Engineer, Callink(opens in new tab)
2015 - 2016
Built fSense's Windows activity-monitoring product. Shipped its first analytics dashboard on AngularJS and Highcharts. Modeled monitoring data with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
Projects
Open source and side projects
Dracula Fluent Terminal
Color identity for terminals that take themselves seriously
Official Dracula theme port for Fluent Terminal, part of an open-source color ecosystem used across 300+ apps and editors.
SentiNEO
Near-Earth asteroids and NASA's daily sky
Web app that visualizes near-Earth objects and NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day using the NeoWs and APOD APIs.
AvantStay Challenge
Rental search where every view is a shareable URL
Vacation rental platform UI with property search, filtering, and sorting flows over real-time GraphQL data.
Writing
Thoughts on architecture, tooling, and craft
Deploying Swagger UI for Bacen's Pix API
A pull request to the Brazilian central bank that was closed without ever being merged, and shipped anyway. Rendering an OpenAPI spec as docs, from CI.
· 2 min read
What My Thesis Assumed About Hardware
Five years on from my paper about coordinating jobs across weak devices. The hardware assumption aged badly. The reliability assumption did not age at all.
· 3 min read
Cutting Backend CI by 76%
A Django test pipeline went from a median of 18.5 minutes to 4.5. Almost none of it came from making tests faster. The last part was a connection budget.
· 6 min read