FelipeSalazar
Senior React & Next.js Engineer. Front-end engineer crafting fast, elegant web applications — I help startups accelerate, shipping high-quality products at speed.
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Turning hard problems into clean interfaces.
Felipe is a front-end engineer specializing in React and modern web applications. Over 3+ years working through Toptal, he has shipped diverse products and untangled complex technical challenges for teams across the globe. Most recently, he led web development at Tea — growing the engineering team and shaping its architecture from the ground up.
He's driven by problem-solving and continuous learning, with a deep focus on clean architecture and building high-quality products — software that feels fast, stays maintainable, and holds up under real-world scale.
Based in Itajaí, Santa Catarina — Brazil. Available for remote work worldwide.
Technologies I build with.
Core & Languages
Frameworks & UI
Back-end & Data
Tooling & Cloud
Practices
Where I've made an impact.
Web Developer Lead · Tea For Women
2025 — PresentLeading web engineering: shipped the Trust & Safety admin portal and a PWA replicating the mobile experience, while growing and structuring the team.
- Built an admin portal for Trust & Safety and Moderation teams
- Launched a PWA web app replicating the mobile experience
- Hired and grew the web engineering team to 4 members
- Reorganized the codebase into a feature-based Data / Domain / Presentation architecture
- Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with automated checks
Senior React Engineer · Spots Soluções em Tecnologia
2018 — PresentCo-founded technology firm delivering custom solutions — from restaurant-independent delivery at scale to hardware telemetry systems.
- Designed systems for restaurant-independent delivery supporting 1000+ simultaneous restaurants
- Partnered with the hardware team on telemetry for 300+ claw machines
- Built enterprise-grade scalable applications with a travel-agency IT team
Next.js Developer · Sam Hill Entertainment, LLC
2023 — 2024Delivered a pixel-perfect marketing site with advanced animations, headless CMS, and Salesforce-backed reservations.
- Built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, ButterCMS, Nodemailer, Auth0 and Vercel
- Led creation of all components and structured the CMS
- Engineered Auth0-based authentication and Salesforce integration
- Used webhooks for automatic actions on content publishing
React Developer · Southern Made Services LLC
2022 — 2023Crafted the pixel-perfect Invenergy corporate site (invenergy.com) with live-preview CMS editing and rich motion.
- Built with Next.js, Chakra UI, Turbo, Storybook, Contentstack, Mapbox and Nodemailer
- Structured the CMS and created all necessary components
- Enabled live-preview editing and real-time updates via webhooks
Front-end Web Developer · NTT Data
2022 — 2023Developed features for BEES — InBev's global marketplace — on the cart team, with a strong testing and review culture.
- Shipped features for the BEES marketplace cart team
- Tracked and fixed bugs through Jira
- Analyzed and approved team pull requests
Senior React Engineer · ADA Travel
2019 — 2022Architected front-ends for enterprise travel-tech: flight/hotel/car reservations and a flight-ticket intelligence platform used by JBS.
- Developed a travel-tech app for flight, hotel and car reservations
- Built a flight-ticket expiration tracker used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest companies
- Architected the entire front-end and integrated airline web services
Products I've worked on.
Tea For Women
Admin portal and PWA for content moderation and user management, backed by a clean feature-based architecture.
Spots Delivery
Restaurant-manager web portal with operational dashboards, serving 1000+ simultaneous restaurants.
Let's build something exceptional.
Have a project in mind or a role to fill? I'm always open to a good conversation.