MiguelÁngelParedes

A lender knows precisely what every pound is doing. The people who supplied the pounds usually do not — they wait for a quarterly PDF and take it on faith.

I built the portal that closes that gap, from an empty repository, working directly with the CEO and CTO. It is behind an admin wall, so there is no link to click here; what it taught me was unsecured lending, investor reporting and how a fintech product actually reaches the people it is for.

WorkRoad started because school ate evenings that should have belonged to us. It became a productivity app built on the idea that smart work beats long work, and beta testers finished tasks around 40% faster than with what they had been using.

Two years after launch it was acquired. The build was the easy half — the education was in the diligence, the paperwork and handing something over cleanly.

A language school in Playa de San Juan needed everything at once: a site, a way for teachers and students to organise themselves, and payments that simply worked.

I designed and still run the whole stack — MERN, Stripe, Vercel — as the only technical person on it. Working that closely with an owner taught me more about a product life cycle than any brief could.