Dan Pina
📧 dan@duclearc.com | 🏠 Hamburg, DE | 🌐 duclearc.com
FULL-STACK SOFTWARE DEV
I'm a gadget-lover, who adores solving puzzles and is always interested in new tech. I have a Bachelor's degree in Organisational Psychology and was originally set to work in HR. But frankly, programming is just too cool. What started as a fun side-project has become my job and I've since worked on Node.js and TypeScript codebases, led projects in both front- and backend, including mobile apps, e-commerce shops and multiple web platforms and sites.
I like building something from top to bottom that I can be proud of, being part of a friendly team who enjoys sharing what they learn and who doesn't use AI blindly.
If that's you, let's get in touch.
Main Technologies
My favourite things to work on are...
...Mobile development (😍), full-stack feature engineering and building, automations and scripts
Work Experience
Software Developer, finpair GmbH
May 2025 – Present
Fintech – Platform for debt instruments and financial investments
- Learned Kotlin on the job, refreshed Angular skills and used SQL extensively.
- Worked in a 100% German-language environment.
- Established expertise in tooling while transitioning technologies and leading process improvements. From Yarn to ppm, from cypress to Playwright, from spectator to Vitest, from git to JJ and thereby became the unofficial "Pipeline fix lady".
Software Engineer, Ivy GmbH
Jul 2024 – Apr 2025
IoT Software – Hardware and SaaS provider for storage unit companies
- Led the migration of the existing website to Next.js.
- Was project lead of the React-Native mobile app (previously Flutter).
- Developed app for storage room tenants, incl. Bluetooth unlocking, access history, rental data viewing and intercom integration for customer support.
Developer, Amazing Outcomes GmbH
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Software Agency – Build better digital products faster
- Worked as a full-stack developer on various projects, including Java Spring Boot APIs, PHP portfolio websites and React web apps.
- Fully owned development, incl. DevOps tasks (hosting, CI/CD, database and tooling updates, etc), ticket management, reports and presentations to clients, etc.
- Handled both AWS and Microsoft Azure codebases and deployments.
PHP Developer, whic GmbH
Nov 2022 - Aug 2023
E-Commerce platform – Spirits retailer
- Enhanced PHP and SEO skills through this experience, along with usage of Gitlab Pipelines and other DevOps tasks.
- Led the transition of the platform from Magento to Shopware, incorporating a fresh design.
- Integrated Google Analytics and SEO improvements to the platform.
Full JS Developer, Lemundo GmbH
May 2021 - Nov 2022
E-Commerce agency – Designs, builds, and maintains custom digital solutions for online retailers
- Developed Vue Storefront for various Magento 2 shops.
- Transitioned websites to Nuxt, integrating Elasticsearch.
- Composed and maintained DDEV scripts for Docker deployment automation.
Support Developer, zollsoft GmbH
Feb 2021 - May 2021
MedTech – Digital health portal
- Worked with the MEAN stack on arzt-direkt.de platform.
- Responsible for i18n integration and testing.
- Managed Jira board and weekly update reports in the form of a presentation.
Jr. JavaScript Developer, Academic Work
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Software Agency – IT talent and service provider
- Collaborated on small to medium projects in Scrum Teams of up to 6 people.
- Contributed to various API's engineering, build, integration and maintenance, mostly with Express (Node.js) and MySQL databases.
- Transitioned to remote work during the pandemic, specialising in Vue and React codebases.
Education
AW Academy Germany | Apr 2020 – Jul 2020
- Certification: JavaScript Software Developer, JavaScript Full-Stack Learning Program
- Learned JS/TS and its full stack application, including the 4 main frameworks at the time (React, Angular, Vue, Node.js).
- Won the highest note with our End of Term project MySkin (shown below)
MySkin: React-Native Expo bootcamp project
About Me
In my next job it's important that...
I find long-term growth. I'm looking for a position that will last for several years in a company I can have a career in.
I want to work for a company that...
...values continuous learning, encourages team-work and delivers its projects.
Right now I'm learning...
...the Kotlin programming language. I want to try and build more things with it. Not just apps, but hopefully also a couple servers for personal use.
Outside of work I...
Mechanical keyboards, Self-hosting, Private and environmentally friendly AI usage
My opinion on AI
- Earn it. Use your brain first and last.
- Can be environmentally friendly. I choose to use it locally (Ollama) or from green providers (GreenPT).
Languages
English, German, Portuguese
Citizenship
German, Brazillian