Lead Product Designer & Design Engineer
TURNING MESSY IDEAS INTO SHIPPED PRODUCTS
I connect business goals, user needs, and hands-on development to build useful products, from educational platforms to tools people use every day.
Featured Products
Real problems. Thoughtful design. Working products.
Know what to take. Remember what you took.
Before
Pillboxes → Alarms → Memory
Now
Schedule → Reminder → Confirmation
Professional Experience
From design leadership to shipping AI-powered products.
- ▶Led Flash-to-HTML5 migration, increasing monthly delivery from 30 to 100 products while cutting developer hours by 50% through process optimisation
- ▶Redesigned the main learning platform using a component-based design system, expanding usable screen space by 11% and improving focus and engagement for 50,000+ students
- ▶Built and scaled a unified design system adopted across 3,500+ products, enabling faster handoffs and consistent user experience
- ▶Developed Python and Shell automation scripts to eliminate repetitive tasks, enabling async collaboration and accelerating team productivity
- ▶Translated stakeholder needs into clear product and technical direction, and made engineering constraints understandable to non-technical teams while shipping workflows, prototypes, and automation tools
- ▶Built AI-assisted mobile, web, and internal products from 0 to 1, taking them through user tests, live pilots, team adoption, and Android launch prep
- ▶Designed and deployed MVPs with Codex, Claude Code, Lovable, React/Next.js, React Native, Vercel, Supabase, and Neon
- ▶Created Edco/Bua automation tools that cut resource-production tasks by 10x+, turning PDF, thumbnail, title, and SVG workflows from hours into seconds
- ▶Led end-to-end redesign of mobile and web platform plus complete visual identity overhaul, directly contributing to the company securing new partnerships and investment
- ▶Built foundational design system still scaling across the product today
- ▶Founded and led VR startup building architectural visualisation and tourism platforms in Unity 3D and Unreal Engine, securing incubation at InovAtiva Brasil
- ▶Pivoted from B2C to B2B based on user research, resulting in partnerships with real estate developers and tourism boards
Core Expertise
The intersection of design, AI, and rapid execution.
Product & UX Design
- Product Discovery & UX Strategy
- Design Systems at Scale
- End-to-End Product Design
- Stakeholder-to-Developer Translation
- Usability Testing & Research
- Shipped Product Experiences
AI-Assisted Prototyping
- Codex, Claude Code, Lovable
- Cursor & AI Coding Workflows
- React, Next.js & Vercel
- Supabase & Neon
- LLM Integration & Prompting
- 0-to-1 MVPs in Weeks
Automation & Delivery
- Python & Shell Automation
- Workflow Optimization
- Internal Tools & Dashboards
- HTML, CSS & JavaScript
- Git & Deployment Workflows
- Cross-Functional Delivery
About Me
Curiosity, business thinking, and hands-on building.
I'm Bruno Pinheiro, a Lead Product Designer and Design Engineer connecting product strategy, user experience, and development.
My studies in Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation (MBA) inform how I approach product decisions: understanding the opportunity, setting priorities, and balancing user needs with business viability. I work with teams to define a realistic scope and stay involved through implementation and testing.
My interest in building started with taking motors out of toy cars to make small fans and boats. That curiosity eventually took me into design, interactive experiences, VR, and software development.
I've built with Unity, Unreal, and HTML/CSS, alongside leading design and improving production workflows. Today, AI-assisted development helps me prototype, test, and iterate faster.
I currently lead product design for educational platforms while building independent products and tools that address everyday problems.
Outside of work, I enjoy running, photography, cooking, and playing guitar.