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    Portfolio Professional work
    Professional work 2020 - 2021

    PADS

    Led the web, back-office, and mobile experience for a luxury real estate platform, growing monthly active users by 50% and improving broker workflows.

    Technical Lead

    Jan 1, 2020 - Jul 1, 2021

    1 yr 7 mo

    40 technologies

    PADS · Technical Lead

    2020 - 2021

    Architecture, delivery leadership, and product quality under real constraints.

    A closer look at the delivery decisions, technical tradeoffs, and product constraints behind this work.

    Completed work

    Leading real estate innovation with PADS

    At PADS, I led the technical work behind the public website, broker tools, and mobile app for a luxury real estate business. The challenge was not just building listings pages. It was designing a connected system that helped brokers work better and made property search feel fast, useful, and trustworthy.

    🎯 What I led

    • A modular platform spanning the public website, internal back-office, and mobile tools used by brokers in the field.
    • Search, maps, and geolocation workflows that helped users explore listings more effectively and helped brokers operate with better location context.
    • Authentication and internationalization, supporting secure access and multilingual product flows for a broader set of users.
    • Cross-functional delivery across web and mobile, keeping architecture and product decisions aligned as the platform evolved.

    📈 Key outcomes

    • 50% growth in monthly active users through a faster and more useful property-search experience.
    • Stronger broker workflows by combining customer-facing discovery with operational tooling in one connected system.
    • More trustworthy product delivery through better technical foundations, scalable architecture, and clearer team execution.

    🛠️ Technical highlights

    • Frontend: React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux, Styled Components, SASS
    • Mobile: React Native, Expo, React Navigation
    • Platform services: Socket.io, OAuth, Google Maps API, Mapbox
    • Delivery: Docker, AWS, CI/CD, Jest, Storybook, Sentry

    🤝 Why it mattered

    PADS was a strong example of product thinking meeting technical leadership. It combined search, maps, mobile workflows, and internal tooling in one system, and it made me better at building software around how people actually work.

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