Alice Fernandes

Senior Software Engineer

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Lisbon, Portugal (9 years and 6 months)

Experience

Senior Software DeveloperPagerDuty

July, 2024 - Present (2 years and 3 months)

Technologies: Storybook, Typescript, Jest / Vitest, Webpack / Vite, React, Cypress, Buildkite, Percy, Docker, NPM Workspaces, Scala, Ruby on Rails, Claude (Code and Design)

  • Led the rollout of CSRF validation from Ruby on Rails to Scala, coordinating stakeholders across multiple teams and owning rollout, support and release across 30+ micro-frontends and 50+ endpoints.
  • Migrated legacy applications from Ember/Backbone and Ruby to React and TypeScript, improving maintainability, performance, and accessibility in preparation for FedRAMP Moderate compliance.
  • Designed and implemented PagerDuty's new error page architecture, driving changes across the design system and BFF backend to decouple UI rendering from backend responses.
  • Integrated agentic workflows into the migration of 1,413+ Jest tests to Vitest, reducing migration effort from days to hours per engineer with no downtime.
  • Led a design-system modernization across 145 components and 100+ client applications, introducing semantic design tokens and color-mode support for PagerDuty's customer-facing dark mode.
  • Improved build tooling and CI/CD workflows to accelerate builds, reduce manual release effort, automate dependency maintenance, and support production reliability.
  • Serve as a core contributor and maintainer of the company's design system, driving its technical direction, architecture, evolution, and adoption across engineering teams.

Software DeveloperSky Technology Centre - Portugal

December, 2020 - July, 20243 years and 8 months

Technologies: React, Jest, Playwright, Ruby, Cucumber, Adobe Analytics, OneTrust, Docker, Jenkins, Groovy, TypeScript, Lerna

  • Led major initiatives on the Peacock's Web streaming app , including serving as Tech Lead for the Multiview feature during the 2024 Paris Olympics, enabling multi-stream viewing for millions, and the Meta Quest app (from CI/CD to production) for Oculus VR devices.
  • Integrated and tested OneTrust's cookie-consent platform with the Legal team, including cookie classification and rigorous testing to support GDPR, CCPA, and GPP compliance.
  • Rebuilt the frontend analytics reporting library, replacing six-year-old unmaintained code and improving tracking reliability. Worked with the Analytics team to update feature tracking and improve customer-usage reporting.
  • Built the UI for Peacock's Web maturity-rating system, displaying age-suitability guidance for content across the web app.
  • Modernized the development pipelines, leading the CI migration from Concourse to Jenkins to improve developer experience, and built a new analytics tracking system that replaced the legacy solution with zero downtime and incidents.
  • Built advanced playback testing pipelines including features like multi-audio, captioning, ads, and closed-caption support. Recognized as the technical expert for infrastructure and playback reliability on the Web team.

Software DeveloperObservador

July, 2018 - December, 20202 years and 6 months

Technologies: SCSS, Javascript, jQuery, Typescript, Vue, React, React Native, PHP, Wordpress, Git, Gulp

  • Served as the sole frontend developer on a fullstack team, leading implementation of Observador V2 with SPA-style navigation and contributing directly to the product's design and functionality, and developed features such as the new Liveblog article, Auto page, and multiple micro-apps and tech demos.
  • Improved user experience and performance through page optimization following Web Vitals, improved core functionality, and maintained high development standards across all frontend initiatives.
  • Integrated and maintained third-party services such as Google Ads, Google Analytics, Subscribe with Google and Piano paywalls

Software DeveloperAppointMaster

May, 2017 - July, 20181 year and 3 months

Technologies: SCSS, Javascript, jQuery, Vue, Pug, Gulp, Prepros, TFS, git

During the time i worked there i was in charge of developing the front-end for several applications that were being based on micro-services. Appointmaster is a company that specializes on software for vet practices. It has presence in America, Australia, New Zeland and United Kingdom markets serving many clients from those countries.

Education

Bachelor of ScienceEngenharia Informática e Multimédia

Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa2018 - 2026

Technologies: Java, Javascript, Python, PHP, SQL, Kotlin, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

HNDDesenvolvimento de Produtos Multimédia

CINEL2016 - 2017

Technologies: Adobe Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects), PHP, Javascript, CSS, HTML, Networks, Autodesk Maya

Skills

PHP

Wordpress

Vue

React

Svelte

SQL

Node.js

Flask

FastAPI

Redux

Jest / Vitest

Typescript

React Native

Tailwind

AWS EC2 and S3

Git

Docker

Jenkins

Groovy

Bash

Python

GCP

Docker

Languages

PortugueseNative speaker

EnglishHigh Proficiency

Projects

This CV

https://www.alicescfernandes.pt/resume/

Technologies: Github Actions, Node.js, Handlebars, Tailwind, nodemon, Playwright, Resumed, Cloudflare Pages

This CV was generated in11th October, 2026from a JSON file automatically with a Github Action CI running nightly on a private repo, and is the print version of the resume hosted online! All of this runs from Cloudflare Pages! How cool is that!

Web Application for Business Simulation Data AnalysisISEL, ISCAL

https://github.com/alicescfernandes/capstone_project

Technologies: Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx, VPS, Cloudflare (DNS, SSL Certs & Caching layer), Python, Django, Pandas, PostgreSQL, Plotly (Python & JS), WebComponents, SCSS, Flowbite, Git, GitHub Actions, LaTeX

Development of a web application for interactive visualization and analysis of data extracted from an external platform, including an ETL pipeline and interface to support student's decision-making during business simulations. This was my degree capstone project.

Multiview PlaybackSky Technology Centre - Portugal

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/peacock-takes-on-youtube-tv-and-apple-with-its-new-multiview-feature/

Feature that allows peacock users to view multiple streams at the same time, and zoom in / out of a particular stream.

DASH MPEG Stream static compilerSky Technology Centre - Portugal

Technologies: FFMPEG, Shaka Packager, Python, BeautifulSoup, Bash

Built a DASH MPEG stream static compiler with Thumbnails, ID3 Timed Metadata compatibility and Server-Side ad insertion. This compiler creates assets that are playable in Chromium on a automated test framework, and helped increasing the coverage of automated tests by providing playback features that were not testable before.

Peacock Meta Quest AppSky Technology Centre - Portugal

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/5821833171264888/

Technologies: PWA, React, Groovy, Jenkins

Helped to bring Peacock into meta quest devices under a PWA. Worked directly with Meta, and worked on generating APKs for VR apps, as well as filter an fix any bugs.

PeacockTV / SkyShowtime / ShowmaxSky Technology Centre - Portugal

https://www.skyshowtime.com/

Implemented multiple features during my tenure in this project

LiveblogObservador

https://observador.pt/liveblogs/coreia-do-sul-volta-a-bater-recorde-diario-de-infecoes-igrejas-sao-o-principal-foco/

Liveblog is a article postype that allows journalists to publish updates in realtime. The project was written in Typescript and uses WebSockets for real-time communication with the server

Observador V2Observador

Helped to build from ground zero the new theme for Observador's website. Participated mainly on the javascript, and implemented a SPA like navigation that makes the site feel faster. Also had to make sure that all of the functionalities were working and migrating several code to the new navigation type