# Fabio Azevedo

> Design Engineer

I work across product design and front-end engineering. I make key decisions and build strong foundations early, so teams can move quickly without sacrificing quality. Polish is what a good system produces, not a final pass added on top.

## Links

- [icantcontrolmyego.net](https://icantcontrolmyego.net)
- [fabio@fabio.cv](mailto:fabio@fabio.cv)
- [linkedin /fabioaraujoazevedo](https://linkedin.com/in/fabioaraujoazevedo)
- [github /naso](https://github.com/naso)

## Personal Projects

### Softle — Physics-native design tool

Jul 2026 · [softle.app](https://softle.app) · In progress

- Own the concept, the product design and the code.
- Co-wrote the engine with AI, a dependency-free XPBD soft-body solver in TypeScript, so shapes collide, bend and stack.
- Built SVG round-tripping with any vector editor, so curves, compound paths and fills survive the solver intact.

## Experience

### Senior Design Engineer

Float.com · Remote — Jan 2021 — Jun 2026

- Started the design system in Base UI and Vanilla Extract, with dark mode on tokens synced between design and code.
- Led the UI component work so feature teams could compose interfaces rather than rebuild the basics, and ship faster.
- Built the interactive chart primitives behind Dashboards and Reports, plus a new table component for Data Studio.

### Front-end Developer → Technical Director

Resn · Remote — Jun 2020 — Dec 2020

- Built WebGL galleries, shader-driven scene transitions and extensible hotspot systems for two online product launches.
- Promoted to Technical Director, overseeing builds, scoping the work and supporting the teams delivering it on schedule.

### Teacher, Front-end Development

EDIT. · Porto, Portugal — May 2015 — Feb 2016

- Designed the full course curriculum, teaching HTML, CSS and JavaScript to design and development students.
- Taught by replication, with pre-built demos and a full client brief students rebuilt and made their own.

### Front-end Developer → Tech Lead

UNIT9 · London, UK — Sep 2012 — Jun 2020

- Tech lead on large multi-developer builds at campaign pace, setting the architecture and integrating the team's work.
- Delivered interactive work for Disney, Ubisoft, Airbnb, Nike, Lufthansa and Bentley.
- Built real-time 3D with Three.js and custom GLSL, Canvas 2D animation, webcam and phone-as-controller interactions.

### Flash Developer, UI Designer → iOS Developer

Havas · Lisbon, Portugal — Oct 2010 — Oct 2012

- Shipped gigapixel deep-zoom experiences, physics-driven social visualisations and native iPad apps.
- Built AR campaigns and a live video compositing pipeline that rendered user media into a personalised film per viewer.
- Led the UI design for the Sport Zone community platform.

## Recognition

- 18x FWA
- 5x Awwwards
- 3x Webby
- 2x Lovies
- 1x BAFTA
- 1x Behance Web Design feature
- 1x Cannes Lions
- 1x Creative Review
- 1x CSS Design Awards

## Stack

- React · HTML
- Vanilla Extract · CSS
- TypeScript · JavaScript
- Base UI · Motion
- Three.js · WebGL · GLSL
- Canvas 2D · SVG
- Figma · Paper
- Cursor
- Claude Code · Cowork

## Files

- [Resume as PDF](fabio-azevedo-resume.pdf)
- [Resume as HTML](index.html)