Digitalando
A large-scale digitalization platform connecting companies with the digital solutions, services and talent they need. I joined an advanced-stage codebase as a frontend developer, shipping features and raising quality across the platform.
Overview
Digitalando set out to help businesses navigate the digital era. What began as a comparator for tech solutions grew into a large, multi-module ecosystem connecting companies with software, services, talent and technological guidance.
I joined during an advanced stage of development and worked across the final months of the project as a frontend developer. My focus was the React frontend — building and refactoring features across many modules, and systematically raising the platform's quality.
What I worked on
- Built and improved marketplace components — cards, filters, search and UI modules.
- Refactored complex components (uploaders, galleries, forms, modals, sliders) for maintainability.
- Improved performance and consistency across the blog, digital profiles, corporate and admin areas.
- Introduced accessibility fixes in dozens of components and standardized error-handling patterns.
- Improved i18n usage and added missing ES/EN translations.
- Collaborated with the backend team — minor endpoints and integration flows — and debugged routing and context issues.
Raising platform quality
A core part of my role was lifting the app's global quality scores. Through systematic restructuring, fixes and optimizations, I helped take SEO, Accessibility and Best Practices to a perfect 100/100 each.
- Refactored React components to avoid unnecessary re-renders and replaced deprecated patterns.
- Lazy-loaded heavy modules to shrink the initial bundle, and removed unused libraries and dead code.
- Improved semantic HTML and added missing aria-labels, alt text, landmarks and roles.
- Optimized images and media loading and tightened responsive consistency across dozens of views.
- Improved metadata, OpenGraph tags and document structure.
The platform
Digitalando was big in scope — a set of interconnected modules rather than a single product:
- Marketplace — software comparison, a services marketplace, freelance talent discovery and public-interest tech events, with rich filtering and search.
- Corporate tools — corporate profiles, team management, services and certifications, and a documentation system.
- Digital profiles — personal identity pages with experience, education, languages and skill-based dashboards.
- Recruitment & talent — vacancies, candidate matching, advanced talent search and a recruiter dashboard.
- Content & community — a blog with editor, testimonials, demo experiences and full ES/EN multilanguage support.
- Admin panel — events, services, certifications and user/corporate oversight, plus AI-powered recommendations.
Tech & approach
The frontend is built with React, React Router and TanStack React Query, with a shadcn/ui (Radix-based) component layer over TailwindCSS, forms via React Hook Form + Zod, internationalization with i18next, payments through Stripe, and SEO/metadata via react-helmet — plus charts, Google Maps, reCAPTCHA and a Capacitor build for mobile.
Most of the work was inside a mature, evolving codebase: adopting component-reuse patterns, introducing custom hooks to simplify shared logic, and migrating legacy components into the updated UI system — all while keeping new code aligned with the platform's accessibility and SEO rules.
Status
Digitalando is no longer in operation — the company behind it shut down. The screenshots above capture parts of the platform as it ran, with no private business data exposed.