Alice Fernandes
Senior Frontend Developer
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Lisbon, Portugal 8 years and 7 months
Senior Frontend Developer with a special interest in the streaming and media industry, and in building scalable design systems that support front-end architectures. Open to remote opportunities.
Experience
July, 2024 - Present (1 year and 4 months)
Senior Frontend Developer
October, 2025 - Present (2 months)
Frontend Developer
July, 2024 - October, 2025 • 1 year and 3 months
Technologies: Emotion, Storybook, Typescipt, Jest / Vitest, React Testing Library, React, Chakra UI, Cypress, Git, Bash, Buildkite, Redux Toolkit, React Testing Library, RTK Query, Mock Service Worker, Percy, Axe A11Y
Working on the Design System used across all products, keeping a consistent visual language on all available apps. My role on the team enables other teams move faster, and my team has full ownership of the components, from technical discussion to CI/CD and release processes. When also required, we help other teams migrate their apps to the design system, rebuilding entire apps in a more modern stack (from Ember to React) and following the design language.
Frontend DeveloperSky Technology Centre - Portugal
December, 2020 - July, 2024 • 3 years and 8 months
Technologies: SCSS, Javascript, React, Jest, Playwright, Git, Ruby, Cucumber, Bash, Adobe Analytics, OneTrust, Docker, Jenkins, Groovy, Meta Quest, TypeScript, Svelte, Github Workflows
Working on the Peacock streaming service owned by NBCUniversal. Responsible for maintaining and developing features based on product team requirements. Peacock is a U.S.-based streaming platform owned by Comcast, with NBCUniversal overseeing the product roadmap and guiding the development team.
Software DeveloperObservador
July, 2018 - December, 2020 • 2 years and 6 months
Technologies: SCSS, Javascript, jQuery, Typescript, Vue, React, React Native, PHP, Wordpress, Git, Gulp
Integrated and maintained third-party services into the website, worked on new version of Observador's website (Observador V2), implemented a SPA-type navigation. Worked on the new Liveblog article, Auto page and micro-apps and tech demos. Other responsibilities included page optimization (measured with Web Vitals), analytics, and participating directly on development of the product and improving the core functionality of the website
Software DeveloperAppointMaster
May, 2017 - July, 2018 • 1 year and 3 months
Technologies: SCSS, Javascript, jQuery, Vue, Pug, Gulp, Prepros, TFS, git
During the time i worked there i was in charge of developing the front-end for several applications that were being based on micro-services. Appointmaster is a company that specializes on software for vet practices. It has presence in America, Australia, New Zeland and United Kingdom markets serving many clients from those countries.
Education
Bachelor of ScienceEngenharia Informática e Multimédia
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa2018 - Ongoing
Technologies: Java (& JSP), Javascript, Python (& Scikit, OpenCV, Numpy), PHP, SQL, Kotlin, Arduino, Jupyter, Google Cloud Platform (Pubsub, CGP, Firestore, Cloud Storage, gRPC)
HNDDesenvolvimento de Produtos Multimédia
CINEL2016 - 2017
Technologies: PHP, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Javascript, HTML, Networks, Javascript, Autodesk Maya
High School (Vocational Training)Técnico/a de Multimédia
Escola Secundária Dom Dinis2012 - 2015
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Javascript, HTML, Javascript
Skills
PHP
Wordpress
Vue
React
Svelte
SQL
Node.js
Flask
Redux
Jest
Typescript
React Native
Tailwind
AWS EC2 and S3
Git
Docker
Jenkins
Groovy
Bash
Python
Languages
PortugueseNative speaker
EnglishHigh Proficiency
Projects
This CV
https://www.alicescfernandes.pt/resume/
Technologies: Github Actions, Node.js, Handlebars, Tailwind, nodemon, Playwright, Resumed, Cloudflare Pages
This CV was generated in16th November, 2025from a JSON file automatically with a Github Action CI running nightly on a private repo, and is the print version of the resume hosted online! How cool is that!
Web Application for Business Simulation Data AnalysisISEL, ISCAL
https://github.com/alicescfernandes/capstone_project
Technologies: Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx, VPS, Cloudflare (DNS, SSL Certs & Caching layer), Python, Django, Pandas, PostgreSQL, Plotly (Python e JS), WebComponents, SCSS, Flowbite, Git, GitHub Actions, LaTeX
Development of a web application for interactive visualization and analysis of data extracted from an external platform, including an ETL pipeline and interface to support student's decision-making during business simulations. This was my degree capstone project.
Multiview PlaybackSky Technology Centre - Portugal
Feature that allows peacock users to view multiple streams at the same time, and zoom in / out of a particular stream.
DASH MPEG Stream static compilerSky Technology Centre - Portugal
Technologies: FFMPEG, Shaka Packager, Python, BeautifulSoup, Bash
Built a DASH MPEG stream static compiler with Thumbnails, ID3 Timed Metadata compatibility and Server-Side ad insertion. This compiler creates assets that are playable in Chromium on a automated test framework, and helped increasing the coverage of automated tests by providing playback features that were not testable before.
Peacock Meta Quest AppSky Technology Centre - Portugal
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/5821833171264888/
Technologies: PWA, React, Groovy, Jenkins
Helped to bring Peacock into meta quest devices under a PWA. Worked directly with Meta, and worked on generating APKs for VR apps, as well as filter an fix any bugs.
PeacockTV / SkyShowtime / ShowmaxSky Technology Centre - Portugal
Implemented multiple features during my tenure in this project
LiveblogObservador
Liveblog is a article postype that allows journalists to publish updates in realtime. The project was written in Typescript and uses WebSockets for real-time communication with the server
Observador V2Observador
Helped to build from ground zero the new theme for Observador's website. Participated mainly on the javascript, and implemented a SPA like navigation that makes the site feel faster. Also had to make sure that all of the functionalities were working and migrating several code to the new navigation type
Subscribe With GoogleObservador
https://observador.pt/assinar/planos/
Integration of Subscribe with Google payment gateway for Observador, connecting Googl'’s subscription system with the existing Piano paywall to enable account-based purchases across devices. This was the first implementation of its kind by a Portuguese publisher and still in use today.