Luan Motta

Senior Product Engineer

I build scalable, user-focused digital products end-to-end using React, Node.js, and TypeScript. I own the work from problem framing through delivery, instrumentation, and iteration with remote U.S. and global teams.

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Remote with U.S. and international teams since 2019.

Luan Motta, Senior Product Engineer

About

Product engineer with 8+ years shipping web and mobile software. I work end-to-end: clarifying the problem, shaping the approach, building the system, and measuring what changes after release.

Stack-wise I lean on TypeScript, React, and Node.js; organization-wise I lean on clear tradeoffs, tight feedback loops, and tools like Heap when the question is what to ship next. AI-assisted development is part of how I move quickly.

Selected experience

Recent roles where I owned delivery.

  1. Caplight Technologies

    Senior Product Engineer

    Mar 2024 to Present

    San Francisco, CA · Remote

    • Owned features from definition through production; used AI tooling to iterate faster without lowering the quality bar.
    • Ran activation and conversion work grounded in Heap: ship, read the data, adjust.
    • Shipped LLM-backed search and content generation, wired into the product with sensible guardrails.
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Heap
    • LLMs

  2. Toptal

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer

    Sep 2022 to Mar 2024

    San Francisco, CA · Remote

    • Built a Web3 NFT marketplace on Polygon; focused on flows that stay understandable around on-chain steps.
    • Frontend architecture on Next.js with Contentstack, structured for performance and long-term change.
    • Next.js
    • Web3
    • Contentstack

  3. Gold Media Tech

    Senior Full-Stack Developer

    Sep 2021 to Mar 2024

    New York, NY · Remote

    • Shipped web and mobile features for a community product (feeds, engagement) on React, React Native, Node.js, and GraphQL.
    • Owned data pipelines and scrapers so fresh content landed in the app reliably.
    • React Native
    • GraphQL
    • Node.js

  4. LIT Onlearning

    Tech Lead · Senior Full-Stack Developer

    Nov 2020 to Sep 2021

    Remote

    • Led web development and mentored engineers on execution and standards.
    • Aligned engineering with delivery dates, tradeoffs, and product direction.
    • React
    • Node.js
    • Leadership

  5. Cyral

    Full-Stack Web Developer

    Sep 2019 to Sep 2020

    Redwood City, CA · Remote

    • Built Node.js services and SSO / SAML integrations in a cloud security platform.
    • Worked on the customer console alongside identity and observability integrations.
    • Node.js
    • SSO
    • SAML

Expertise

What I am hired for, plus a short list of tools that usually show up in that work.

  • Product engineering

    Scope from unclear problem to shipped feature: tradeoffs, rollout, and learning from usage, not just tickets closed.

  • Frontend architecture

    React and Next.js codebases with clear boundaries and performance that does not collapse as the product grows.

  • Full-stack delivery

    APIs, data access, and UI in one thread of ownership when that is what the milestone requires.

  • AI-powered features

    LLMs where they earn their place: search, generation, internal speed, always with product constraints and review.

  • Performance & SEO

    Fast pages, solid semantics, and metadata that help humans and search both understand what you ship.

  • Developer experience

    Conventions, reviews, and automation so a team stays fast after the first release.

Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • React Native
  • NestJS
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Headless CMS
  • LLM integrations
  • Heap

Contact

If the fit is right, let's talk.

Senior product engineering and full-stack roles, or consulting with a clear scope and a single owner for delivery.