Giancarlo Papa
Full-stack Web Developer · Zürich, Switzerland
I craft resilient web platforms that blend crafted UX with measurable business outcomes. From prototypes to hyperscale traffic, I help teams deliver thoughtfully shipped product increments.
Impact through experience
A decade of product engineering spanning SaaS, analytics, and developer tooling.
2022 — Present
Principal Frontend Engineer · Compass Labs
Remote
Own the end-to-end experience layer for a developer analytics platform connecting Nuxt 4, NuxtHub, and Supabase services across the edge.
- Led migration to NuxtHub on Cloudflare Pages, lowering cold start latency by 42% and unlocking data residency compliance.
- Bootstrapped a component system with Nuxt UI Pro, equipping designers with a live playground and Storybook parity.
- Designed a Supabase powered activity pipeline that streams 500k+ events per day with real-time moderation controls.
2019 — 2022
Lead Product Engineer · Northbridge Studio
Hybrid · Zürich
Partnered with clients to design, ship, and scale revenue-critical web products with tight iteration loops.
- Delivered a fintech onboarding platform handling 60k sign-ups per month with automated compliance workflows.
- Introduced performance budgets and observability guardrails, reducing Largest Contentful Paint to under 1.4s.
- Mentored a multidisciplinary team of 6 engineers and designers, raising deployment cadence from monthly to weekly.
2015 — 2019
Product Designer & Engineer · Freelance
Remote
Consulted with founders to turn research into working products with maintainable foundations.
- Shipped MVPs for eight venture-backed startups with an average hand-off time of 6 weeks.
- Established reusable interface kits that reduced engineering handover defects by 35%.
- Facilitated discovery workshops and usability testing across North America and Europe.
Selected projects
Hands-on initiatives where NuxtHub, Supabase, and thoughtful UX met ambitious timelines.
EdgeForms
A NuxtHub-powered form automation toolkit deploying instantly to Cloudflare Workers with Supabase persistence.
Pulse Atlas
Operational analytics dashboards shipped for health tech teams with role-based access and HIPAA controls.
Studio Kit
A design-to-code bridge that syncs Figma tokens to Nuxt UI themes with live preview environments.
Where I add the most leverage
From shipping revenue-critical surfaces to building foundations teams can trust.
Frontend
- Nuxt 4
- Vue 3
- TypeScript
- Nuxt UI
- TailwindCSS
Platform
- Cloudflare Workers
- NuxtHub
- Supabase
- Vercel
- Edge compute
Practices
- Design systems
- DX tooling
- A/B experimentation
- Accessibility-first
Writing
Practical essays on edge architecture, product delivery, and team enablement.
NuxtHub Blog · Oct 2024
Architecting resilient NuxtHub applications on Cloudflare
An opinionated approach to structuring NuxtHub projects for globally distributed teams.
Dev.to · Jun 2024
Supabase as the heartbeat for event-driven Nuxt apps
Patterns for streaming analytics pipelines without blocking the UX layer.
Let's shape your next release
Available for fractional leadership engagements, audits, and hands-on product engineering.