The long arc

From law school to leading AI-native platforms.

The chronological career and education timeline of Diogo Esteves.

Law school first, then the pivot. Every step since has traded up in scale, ambiguity, or altitude.

  1. Dec 2025 — Present

    Lead Engineer, Web Applications

    Fueled · Lisbon / Remote

    • Own the frontend craft on enterprise engagements at a 300+ person agency whose roster spans Google, Apple, the BBC, and the United Nations.
    • Set technical direction on the standardized React + TypeScript stacks, design-system reuse, and AI-integrated product surfaces.
    • Ship production AI-augmented surfaces: LLM-driven workflows, content intelligence, and internal tooling.

  2. Jun 2025 — Dec 2025

    VP of Engineering

    Moment · Lisbon / Remote

    • Owned technical vision, architecture, and the engineering org as an AI-first knowledge platform moved into production scale.
    • Built teams across frontend, backend, AI/ML, and platform — hiring bar, leveling rubric, and team topology.
    • Stood up the operating model: trunk-based CI/CD, observability, on-call, RFC process, and quality gates.

  3. Feb 2023 — Jun 2025

    Lead Frontend Engineer

    eino.ai · Remote

    • Led frontend architecture for an agentic wireless network-planning platform — digital twins for 5G, Wi-Fi, and private wireless.
    • Built map-based twin visualization, real-time RF heatmaps, and agent orchestration panels in React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
    • Shipped agentic UX ahead of industry adoption: natural-language network design with inspectable agent reasoning.

  4. Mar 2022 — Feb 2023

    Lead Frontend Engineer

    Superglue · Remote

    • Owned the user-facing platform of a B2B partner-engagement SaaS used by teams at companies like Uberall.
    • Built dashboards, recommendation flows, and integration UIs backed by automation and AI signals.

  5. Oct 2020 — Mar 2022

    Senior Software Engineer

    Sky · NBCUniversal · Comcast

    • Shipped React/Redux experiences on Peacock TV — tens of millions of subscribers across web and connected-TV clients.
    • Hardened performance, resilience, and release safety where a regression reaches millions of viewers within minutes.

  6. Aug 2019 — Oct 2020

    Lead Frontend Engineer

    Diligent

    • Architected the company-wide design system behind GRC products used across a large share of the Fortune 1000.
    • Published dual-framework React + Angular component libraries with theming, versioning, and a contribution model.

  7. Sep 2018 — Aug 2019

    Lead Frontend Engineer

    BMW Group

    • Led frontend for the Crowd and Open Innovation platforms sourcing strategic R&D ideas across the BMW Group.
    • Held enterprise-grade security, scalability, and UX standards on Angular and .NET Core.

  8. Jan 2016 — Sep 2018

    Software Engineer

    Deloitte

    • Built React/Redux frontends and advanced data visualization for financial-services and regulated-industry clients.
    • Set API-integration and maintainability patterns that other teams reused.

  9. 2015 — 2018

    Computer Engineering

    ISEL — Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa

    • Software engineering, AI, and interactive systems.
    • Shipping at Deloitte while finishing the degree.

  10. 2011 — 2014

    LLB in Law

    Universidade Lusófona

    • Argumentation, structure, and reading the fine print.
    • Skills that still pay off in RFCs and contract negotiations.