hi — I'm

Marco Escaleira

Full-stack engineer who builds products people actually use — React, React Native, Node, AWS.

Right now: React Native at yetipay in London.

Portrait of Marco Escaleira
01.

About

Portugal roots, London base — still curious about how products actually land in people's hands.

I grew up in Portugal, studied Computer Science (First-class), and took my first steps as a developer at the Faculty of Medicine in Porto. I taught at Mindera Academy, then moved from Porto to London.

These days I build payment products at yetipay — most recently Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android — and I carry the on-call pager for a live payments platform. That part is its own kind of education.

Currently: shipping the yetipay merchant app in React Native, with Tap to Pay on both iOS and Android.

  • Started out writing PHP + jQuery — and I'm not ashamed of it.
  • Taught humans before teaching computers was even a job title.
  • On-call survivor: the pager and I have an understanding.
  • Faculty of Medicine → Tap to Pay. Long story, worth asking.
02.

Experience

Where I've shipped, mentored, and learned — from faculty web work to live payments.

  1. yetipay

    Current

    Software Engineer · London, UK

    • Shipped Tap to Pay for merchants on iPhone and Android with React Native
    • Made CI/CD pipelines ~10× faster
    • Grew the design system across the product
    • On-call for a live payments platform

  2. Beacon

    Software Engineer

    • Improved page-load performance by ~50%

  3. Mindera

    Software Engineer

    • Built React product features
    • Defined an end-to-end testing strategy with Gherkin/Cucumber-style E2E tests

  4. Mindera Academy

    Mentor / Teacher

    • Taught and mentored aspiring developers

  5. FMUP (Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto)

    Early-career developer

    • First professional steps — web work for the faculty
03.

Projects

Real products, real constraints — open a card for problem, build, and outcome.

Problem

Small merchants need to take card payments without buying extra hardware.

What I built

A React Native merchant app with Tap to Pay on both iPhone and Android, plus card reader integration for merchants who want it. It's backed by an AWS payments platform underneath. This is my day job at yetipay, and it's live in merchants' hands.

Outcome

A live, in-production payments platform merchants use today to take card payments straight from their phone.

Company
04.

Skills

Tools I reach for when the work needs to ship — not a laundry list.

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSPHP

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSGraphQL (Apollo)

Mobile

React NativeExpoTap to Pay (iOS & Android)

Backend

Node.jsExpressMongoDBREST & GraphQL APIs

AWS & Infra

AWSDockerCI/CD (GitHub Actions)Vercel

Tooling & Testing

JestE2E testing (Gherkin/Cucumber)GitStorybook-style design systems
05.

Contact

Got a role, a project, or just want to talk shop? My inbox is open.

If you're hiring or building something in payments, mobile, or product engineering — I'd like to hear from you.

Say hello

marcoescaleira2000@gmail.com

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