Caio Viotti - Design Engineer

About me

I’m a Design Engineer with over 7 years of full-time experience in Front-End Software Engineering and Product Design, specializing in crafting and implementing product-driven user experiences. Proficient in modern Web Development—be it React, Vue, TypeScript, SPAs or MPAs—if it’s on the web, I can handle it. Regarded as a CSS wizard and expert in designing directly with code with pixel perfection.

Experience

Founding Design Engineer @ External Secrets (OCV)

1Y | 09/2024 - Present
  • Led External Secrets’ Front-End architecture from scratch, establishing day-one UX/Front-End standards and shipping a lead-generation MVP in 4 weeks
  • Led Front-End/UI for location-aware reused-secrets findings, enabling one-click bulk rotation across systems and stores, modeled to cut reused-secrets discovery/rotation time by 99.99%
  • Built universal K8s recursive form system for 12+ resource types, 15+ field types, cutting custom form development by 80%, enabling users to create complex manifests without YAML knowledge
  • Owned the secrets-lifecycle audit experience, designing and shipping an enterprise dashboard with analytics, automated reporting, and secret-lifecycle visualization for 30+ vault providers
  • Enhanced DevX with Storybook core primitives coverage, an in-house feature flag system, and a mock API infrastructure, accelerating prototyping and shortening PR review cycles

React, Vite, TypeScript, Zod, Tanstack Query, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Storybook — Figma, Miro

Founding Design Engineer @ Zazos (Y Combinator S21)

1Y3M | 03/2023 - 06/2024
  • ⁠Managed and developed the company’s Design System from scratch, creating 20 tailored components for optimal DevX/UX with Vue + StoryBook, cutting 70% of legacy UI lib code
  • ⁠Led the platform-wide UI redesign and its Front-End refactoring, enhancing user-facing and back-office screens with consistency in UI and copy, with overwhelming client satisfaction
  • ⁠Led the Front-End refactoring and UX overhaul for the Workflow Automations of the platform’s Low-Code segment, utilizing a new node-based UI pattern, resulting in 53% increased usage
  • ⁠Led the UI/UX redesign and Front-End refactoring for the Low-code page components settings by using a detailed sidebar for a consistent experience, reducing usage friction by 65%
  • ⁠Led the refactoring of a visual JSON Editor for API integration within Workflow Automations

Vue, Nuxt, Vuex, StoryBook, Jest, Cypress, SCSS, Rails — Figma, Whimsical

Front-End Developer & UI/UX Designer @ Buser (Softbank)

1Y4M | 08/2021 - 12/2022
  • Led the Product Discovery and Front-End Development of a dynamic blog-like feature, yielding 60k SEO-optimized pages that elevated organic traffic from 500k to 2.5M within 10 months
  • Developed the Front-End for the redesigned UX of our checkout page, making it into a single-page flow without a sign-up requirement, resulting in a 16% increase in conversion rate
  • Optimized dozens of Design System Vue components with in-depth documentation, accessibility, unit testing, with 30% build size shrinking by cleaning up large JS dependencies
  • Promoted best practices for scalable CSS across the organization, offering guidance and mentoring for all things related to styling

Vue, Nuxt, Vuex, VuePress, Jest, SCSS, django — Figma, Miro

Contract Front-End Developer @ BxBlue (Y Combinator S17)

4M | 09/2020 - 01/2021
  • Led the design and implemented the UX for a WebRTC video-contract feature, lowering e-signature costs by allowing users to articulate contract terms displayed on-screen verbally

React, Styled Components, Jest, Enzyme, SCSS, Rails — Figma

Front-End Developer @ Olist (SoftBank)

3M | 12/2019 - 03/2020

Front-End Developer & UI/UX Designer @ LABHacker

3Y8M | 03/2016 - 11/2019
  • Led the Product Discovery, Design Sprint, UI Design and Front-End development of a tool for citizen input on law drafts with consensus datavis + text editor for lawmakers in 7 months
  • Developed the Front-End for a public hearings pilot tool with crowd-ranking questions, having 55% adoption by the House of Representatives within 1 year, and institutionalized by 2024

Javascript, jQuery, SCSS, RSCSS, BEM, Django — Figma, Miro