2026
Reinaldo Simões
Staff Software Engineer and Photographer in New York City
I am a Staff Software Engineer who combines frontend architecture, product judgment, and design craft. I turn ambiguous, user-facing problems into clear, polished systems.
At Warby Parker, I build customer-facing systems and help decide how the products work. Before that, I led projects at HelloFresh that improved growth, ordering, and the customer experience.
Across weather planning, private countdowns, AI-assisted feedback, and workflow visualization, I use design and engineering to make complex information easier to act on. These projects let me take an idea from the first sketch to a shipped experience.
I am strongest when a problem has context, a real user, and room for judgment. I connect product behavior, visual hierarchy, architecture, and implementation.
Photography reflects the same attention to observation, composition, and restraint. You can see recent 35mm scans in the photography section below.
Projects
Each entry links to a live project or case study covering product context, system decisions, and implementation details.
2025
WeatherToRun
Utility appFocus: Hourly scoring, resilient weather data, offline fallback
A weather-aware running planner with hourly scores, clothing guidance, and a clear offline state.
2025
AI Photo Critique
Applied AIFocus: Multimodal analysis, retrieval pipeline, feedback design
A portfolio project exploring multimodal photo feedback with GPT-4o Vision, retrieval, and structured critique UX.
2025
Processing Storyboard
Open sourceFocus: Workflow prototype, motion, interface clarity
A React prototype for presenting defined workflows as animated storyboards.
Photography
A selection of recent film scans from my photography archive. Some of my digital photography is also available on Pexels, Adobe Stock, and Shutterstock.