Ricardo JorgeLisbon, Portugal
I work hands-on with early-stage teams to turn ambitious ideas into polished, production-ready products at the intersection of AI engineering, product engineering, and data visualisation.
Hi, I'm Ricardo Jorge, but you can call me RJ. I started coding young, purely for fun: modding and reverse-engineering games and consoles, building my own fighting game on the MUGEN engine, and running dedicated servers for the titles I grew up on. At 14, programming LEGO Mindstorms robots took my team to a second-place national finish and the final four of the 2008 robotics world cup in China.
I went professional in 2015 and quickly specialised in frontend TypeScript applications, building on React since 2016 and Next.js since 2018, an early bet on the stack that became the standard for both the web and AI products.
On most projects I was the first frontend hire, which meant owning the architecture, tooling, component library, infrastructure, and pipelines from day one. Most of my industry experience is in cybersecurity, building dashboards and proprietary data explorers. That's where I developed a passion for data-driven products, and where I learned what separates a polished product from a prototype.
I've built with AI since the first releases of Copilot, ChatGPT, and MidJourney, moving from autocomplete to prompt and context engineering to designing full agent harnesses. Today I run an automated fleet of AI agents that maintain my personal projects.
I operate as a self-guided missile: point me at a target and I'll figure out how to hit it on my own, using everything I've learned to avoid the pitfalls and drive straight to the solution.
AI products, agent harnesses, custom skills, automations, chat experiences, and data-extraction systems.
End-to-end product delivery, from architecture and design systems to testing, infrastructure, and releases.
Dashboards, proprietary data explorers, data visualisation, frontend architecture, and team foundations.
TypeScriptReact.jsNext.jsAI SDKConvexPlaywrightVercel
Agent AutomationsCustom Agent SkillsHarness EngineeringCodexClaude Coden8n
Tailwind CSSshadcn/uiMaterial-UIDesign SystemsStorybookRefactoring UI
DashboardsData Visualisation (d3, Recharts, Nivo)Web ScrapingData Enrichment
Team & Project ManagementEnd-to-End Product EngineeringProduct DesignAgile Methodologies
JavaScriptNode.jsHTML5CSSGitGitHub ActionsREST APIsCI/CDTesting
2025–Present
Hands-on AI product engineering for multiple early-stage startups: AI data extraction from PDFs, AI SEO analytics, a GenAI dermatopathology portal, cybersecurity dashboards, proprietary data explorers, AI chat experiences, n8n workflows, and agent harnesses, skills, and automations.
2024–2025
Went deep on my specialty, data visualisation, for a threat-intelligence product: custom datavis components, core modules like AttackCapture™ and HuntSQL™, and a new API documentation platform built on OpenAPI.
2023–2024
Built the next generation of OMEGA's iGaming platform management system in TypeScript and React; promoted to lead the frontend team, setting standards for onboarding, documentation, and async workflows.
2022–2023
Frontend monorepo for all new tools and apps, the Phantasma UI Storybook, the block explorer, and contributions to the TypeScript SDK.
2020–2021
Started as a solo frontend engineer and grew the Customer Security frontend team. Tech lead for Coalition Explorer, the component library, and attack-surface monitoring on the BinaryEdge Portal.
I'm always open to exploring exceptional opportunities: AI products, data-heavy applications, or production foundations. Reach out if you're keen on working together.