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Dálcio Garcia

Dálcio Garcia · Senior Software Developer · Luanda, Angola

I build software products from idea to production.

Full-stack product engineering across web, mobile, APIs and integrations.

Selected work

Products I have built, end-to-end

Each entry links to a case study — the problem, my role, the architecture, the technical decisions and the current state — and, where the product is public, to the product itself. Previews are real captures of the public product pages.

PratikaProduct · Founder

My own company. I define, build, ship and operate these products end-to-end.

01Offline-first point-of-sale system

Pratika POS

Offline-first Android point-of-sale for retail, mini-markets and pharmacies in Angola.

Role
Founder & Software Engineer — product, architecture, mobile app, backend/sync, billing workflow
Period · status
2026 · Completed
  • Flutter
  • Dart
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Deno
Pratika POS — public product page
Public landing page of pos.pratika.io, captured 19 Sep 2026

02Professional email platform for custom domains

Pratika Mail

Professional email on the customer's own domain, built on third-party email and domain infrastructure.

Role
Founder & Software Engineer — architecture, frontend, backend, provider integration, billing
Period · status
2026 · Completed
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Third-party email infrastructure
  • LLM APIs
Pratika Mail — public product page
Public landing page of mail.pratika.io, captured 2 Oct 2026

03AI sales agent on WhatsApp

Pratika Sales

An AI sales agent that serves a business's customers on WhatsApp, shows the catalogue and takes the order.

Role
Founder & Software Engineer — product, architecture, AI agent, WhatsApp integration, billing
Period · status
2026 – Present · In production
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • WhatsApp Cloud API
  • LLM APIs
  • Stripe
  • Playwright
Pratika Sales — public product page
Public landing page of sales.pratika.io, captured 2 Oct 2026

Mirantes TechnologiesSoftware Engineering

Employee work: the main career platform (2022–2024) and the creator platform I conceived and led parts of (2025–).

04Career and recruitment platform

Mirantes Platform

A career and recruitment platform connecting professionals with opportunities.

Role
Frontend Developer & Frontend Team Lead
Period · status
Nov 2022 – Feb 2024 · Completed
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • React Query
  • Tailwind CSS
Mirantes platform — public landing page
Public landing page of mirantes.io, captured 19 Sep 2026

05Creator ecosystem: courses, digital products, communities, marketplace, live

Mirantes for Creators

Creator platform inside the Mirantes ecosystem: courses, digital products, communities, livestreams and a marketplace.

Role
Senior Software Developer — conception, architecture and end-to-end implementation of significant parts
Period · status
2025 – Present · In production
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • GraphQL
Mirantes for Creators — public product page
Public landing page of mirantesforcreators.com, captured 19 Sep 2026

PratikaProduct · Founder

06Domain registration and lifecycle management

Pratika Domains

Domain search, registration, renewals and DNS management priced in Kwanza, orchestrating the Openprovider API.

Role
Founder & Software Engineer — product, frontend, backend, registrar integration, billing
Period · status
2026 · Completed
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Openprovider API
Pratika Domains — public product page
Public landing page of domains.pratika.io, captured 19 Sep 2026

Interest LabsFreelance engineering

Application-layer Web3 integration on a live Sui DeFi product.

07DeFi liquid-staking application on Sui

Winter Walrus

Liquid-staking platform for WAL on the Sui blockchain; application-layer integration with existing Move contracts.

Role
Software Engineer — Web3 / DeFi applications (freelance)
Period · status
Mar – Jul 2025 · Completed
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Sui TypeScript SDK
  • Move (integration only)
Winter Walrus — public application
Public app of winterwalrus.com, captured 19 Sep 2026

Experience

Mobile → frontend → team lead → senior → founder

A progression from mobile and frontend work to owning products end-to-end, technical coordination and founding my own product company.

  1. Mar 2026 – Present

    Self-employed · Remote · Luanda, Angola

    Founder & Software Engineer · Pratika

    Own products: Pratika POS · Mail · Sales · Domains

    Software for small and medium businesses in Angola. I am the engineer behind the products: product definition, architecture, frontend, backend, data model, integrations, deployment and production.

    • Pratika POS — offline-first Android point-of-sale (Flutter, Next.js, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Deno).
    • Pratika Mail — professional email on custom domains built on third-party email/domain infrastructure.
    • Pratika Sales — AI sales agent on WhatsApp for small businesses: catalogue, orders and appointments, with server-computed prices and owner hand-off (Next.js, Supabase, WhatsApp Cloud API, LLM APIs).
    • Pratika Domains — domain registration and DNS management via the Openprovider registrar API, priced in Kwanza.
    • Designed the shared account, subscription and administration layer; built bank-transfer billing with proof-of-payment verification for the Angolan market.
  2. Jan 2025 – Present

    Full-time · On-site · Luanda, Angola

    Senior Software Developer · Technology Department · Mirantes Technologies

    Product engineering: Mirantes for Creators

    Software engineering and technical coordination in the Technology Department of an HR and careers SaaS (job marketplace, recruitment, employee management) with web and mobile apps.

    • Conceived and led the implementation of Mirantes for Creators: product definition, architecture and end-to-end development across frontend and backend.
    • Designed and built live-experience capabilities and podcast functionality, integrating third-party live-streaming and live-management platforms.
    • Own the creator-side product infrastructure: creator accounts, content catalogue and the data model connecting creators, products and the marketplace.
    • Coordinate technical work within the department: technical decisions, code review and delivery planning across web and mobile codebases (Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, GraphQL).
  3. Nov 2022 – Feb 2024

    Full-time · On-site · Luanda, Angola

    Frontend Developer & Frontend Team Lead · Mirantes Technologies

    Platform engineering: Mirantes Platform — mirantes.io

    Frontend engineering on the Mirantes platform, a SaaS where professionals manage careers and applications and companies run job postings, recruitment and hiring.

    • Built and maintained the Next.js/TypeScript web application — SSR/SSG strategies, lazy loading, data fetching and caching with React Query — to keep the platform fast on low-bandwidth connections.
    • Led the frontend team's technical work: code review, technical guidance and consistency across the codebase.
    • Owned platform performance work and production debugging.
  4. Mar 2025 – Jul 2025

    Freelance · Remote · Remote

    Software Engineer — Web3 / DeFi Applications · Interest Labs

    Web3 application: Winter Walrus

    Application layer of Sui DeFi products, including Winter Walrus (liquid staking for WAL).

    • Web3 integrations in TypeScript/React with the Sui TypeScript SDK: wallet connection, transaction construction and signing, on-chain state in the UI.
    • Staking, unstaking and LST workflows in the Winter Walrus interface, integrating existing Move contracts without authoring them.
  5. Sep 2021 – Oct 2022

    Full-time · Luanda, Angola

    Software Engineer — Frontend · NSDEV

    Frontend engineering on T'aprovado, an Angolan platform connecting users with rated establishments.

  6. Aug 2022 – Nov 2022

    Part-time · Remote · São Paulo, Brazil

    Frontend Developer — VTEX · FRN³

    Six-plus VTEX e-commerce storefronts for FRN³'s clients (including Babybiz, Panasonic Brazil and Portal Elétrico), working with a Brazilian team via NSDEV.

  7. Nov 2022 – Feb 2024

    Full-time · Luanda, Angola

    Frontend Developer · STATEMENT MC

    Frontend development of internal and client solutions (including Homepro) with React and Next.js, and co-tutoring of a programming course for young people.

  8. Aug 2020 – Jun 2021

    Full-time · Remote · Lisbon, Portugal

    Mobile Developer · Mochi Noir

    Mobile applications in React Native and TypeScript, from application flow design to implementation, with unit and integration tests (Jest).

Engineering capabilities

What I work with

Grouped by the layer of a product where I use them. No ratings, no bars — the case studies are the evidence.

Product engineering

  • Product architecture
  • Feature design
  • End-to-end implementation
  • SaaS
  • Web applications
  • Mobile applications

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • SSR / SSG
  • Performance
  • Caching
  • Forms & validation
  • React Query
  • Tailwind CSS

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Deno
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • GraphQL
  • REST API design

Mobile

  • Flutter
  • React Native
  • Offline-first architecture
  • Device & hardware integrations (barcode, Bluetooth printing)

Integrations

  • Payment workflows
  • Domain registrars (Openprovider)
  • Email infrastructure (MX / SPF / DKIM / DMARC)
  • Authentication & 2FA
  • Third-party APIs
  • Blockchain / Web3 (Sui)
  • LLM APIs

Engineering practice

  • Architecture
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Testing
  • Code review
  • Deployment
  • Debugging
  • Technical coordination
  • AI-assisted development

Writing

Articles and case studies

Published pieces on dev.to, and the retrospectives I am preparing for the products above.

Published

In preparation

  • Building an offline-first POS with Flutter

    Upcoming · Mobile

  • Building a professional email platform around third-party infrastructure

    Upcoming · SaaS

  • Designing a domain registration platform

    Upcoming · Integrations

  • Building Mirantes for Creators

    Upcoming · Platform

  • Integrating Sui DeFi applications at the application layer

    Upcoming · Web3

Contact

Building software products or working on a technically interesting problem?

I am open to conversations about full-stack product engineering, senior engineering roles and technically demanding products.

Pratika
pratika.io
Location
Luanda, Angola