Paulo Antunes

Senior Front-End Developer · Web Accessibility

Summary

20 years building and shipping web products for organizations around the world — most recently as a Senior Front-End Developer on enterprise platforms across government, nonprofit, and membership sectors. What I bring to a team isn't just code: it's years of translating what stakeholders actually need into something a team can build and ship. Hands-on specialty: web accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA, ADA, Section 508).

Skills

Experience

Front-End Developer (own clients) · Freelance

2006–present

Remote

  • Direct clients in Brazil and abroad, from concept to deploy: UX/UI, front-end and CMS builds

Senior Front-End Developer · Taoti Creative

2018–2026

taoti.com · Remote

  • Front-end developer on multiple enterprise Drupal and WordPress builds for high-profile clients, including The German Marshall Fund of the United States, International Women's Forum, APTA and IAAPA.
  • Specialized in web accessibility auditing and remediation, helping clients meet WCAG 2.2 AA, ADA and Section 508 so their sites work for everyone, including people who rely on assistive technologies.
  • Built responsive, component-based interfaces with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, Twig templates, Tailwind CSS, Lando environments and Git — maintaining long-term client sites through modular, maintainable code.
  • Integrated AI tools into daily front-end work: migrated legacy ACF field groups to native Gutenberg blocks, turned Figma specs into code through Figma's MCP integration, reused existing component patterns, debugged complex issues and extended search filtering.
  • Authored build specifications that scoped the technical approach for new projects and guided estimation.
  • Performed QA across the team's work: verified completed tasks, validated client sites after security updates and checked builds against requirements before release.

Visual Design Engineer · Crossover

2017

crossover.com · Remote

  • Contributed to a client project for Acquia, the company behind Drupal, as part of Crossover's global talent network.
  • Owned the SCSS / styling architecture for the Kitewheel MVP, taking it through to launch.

UX/UI Designer & Front-End Developer · Printi

2012–2016

printi.com.br · Remote

  • Early team member, working directly with product management to design and ship new pages and services.
  • Designed UX/UI for new features and built them as front-end pages for the back-end team to integrate.
  • Contributed during a period of rapid growth in which Printi was named Best B2B Company by Brazil Founders (2014 and 2015).

Writer · Abduzeedo

2008–2019

abduzeedo.com · Remote

  • Wrote for one of the world's most recognized design blogs, online since 2007: inspiration pieces, ideas and interviews for the global design community.

Web Developer · Zee Design

2006–2012

zee.com.br · Porto Alegre, Brazil

  • Delivered full design solutions for a range of clients, from UX/UI and responsive design through front-end development.
  • Translated design concepts into responsive implementations; produced wireframes, prototypes and style guides.

Education

B.A. in Social Communications — Publicity & Advertising · Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil · 2012

Languages

Portuguese (native) · English (fluent)