FULL STACK ENGINEER — ATHENS, GR · 38.0°N 23.7°E
Kiúri Waddington Negrão
Selected Work
- 2025 — NOW Full Stack Engineer · Root Systems↗ A stealth startup rethinking financial transactions for the creative ecosystem, giving rightsholders, distributors, and consumers real control over how money moves. The core is a digital roots system that streams funds between people across the network, with a portion always flowing back to those who need it most. GoPythonTypeScriptNext.jsReact
- 2021 — 25 Lead Full Stack Engineer · Designco↗ Built and maintained web apps and in-house tools as a solo dev for a range of clients, including the Greek government, Ifly, GoOut, CasusGrill, and This is Athens. A public-park signage and mobile app, and a municipal dashboard and reporting tool that routes street issues straight to the mayor's office with stats, maps, and task allocation. TypeScriptReactNext.jsSupabaseNeo4JSanity
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PROJECT
kiurious.dev↗
This site and blog, rebuilt from scratch with Astro. No template.
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- PROJECT tauri-one↗ A desktop and mobile AI assistant prototype built with Tauri, using OpenAI's API and custom prompts for business use cases. Born from a meeting about how LLMs could better understand what users actually ask for. TauriRustTypeScript
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PROJECT
josenegrao.org↗
A memorial archive for José Negrão, professor of Development Economics and driving force behind Mozambique's 1997 Land Law. Built with Astro, bilingual in Portuguese and English.
AstroTypeScriptTailwind
About
I started my journey as a developer in my early teenage years. At the time we had Pascal in school, but like most kids then, what I really wanted was game development. Games were getting better and better, even within a single hardware generation, and it thrilled me to figure out how anyone could make something like The Sims or GTA III. I wanted to build a game I would love to play.
The country I was born in wasn't so technically advanced, and there were no programming courses we could take outside of university, which was still far away. So we went onto the internet with our 56kbps modems and hunted for guides. I never did make that game, but I built a website and learned to hack around on my home and school networks. It wasn't until university that I really learned to code.
Even then, back in Mozambique, the tech jobs were all for system and network admins. That was my first job out of university, and a year later, after plenty of network installations, I set the dream aside and moved into music and TV production. I learned a lot in those years, and the thrill of shipping projects watched by thousands, with dozens of staff to manage, was unbeatable.
Fast-forward a few years, I found love, moved to Greece, and decided to try software again. The industry had completely changed, even from my university days. I started building small apps on the side, and the process was so much easier to get into than before, YouTube, courses, frameworks, real IDEs. Things we could only dream of. It didn't take long to make the jump: I quit my job, joined a 9-month refresh course, and dived in headfirst.
Today I get to build software for many clients as a lead developer, and I can't get enough of this puzzle-solving, Lego-building thing I get to call a profession. I'm still at the very start of the trip, and there's far more I want to learn and break.
When I'm not building apps or experimenting with a new stack, you'll find me with my family, swimming at the beach, walking in nature, or playing guitar.