Greenfield API / quality

Context

Wealth.com operated in the estate-planning and wealth-management space. The relevant work involved greenfield backend API development, API contracts, and user-profile questionnaire behavior.

Paulo’s role

Paulo built backend .NET API capabilities and treated automated testing as part of the design process from the beginning, rather than as cleanup after implementation.

Constraints and risks

• The API needed to support product behavior that could evolve quickly.
• Business logic had to be placed where it could be tested, reviewed, and maintained.
• Early architecture decisions would influence future development speed and reliability.
• Feedback from senior engineers had to be incorporated without slowing delivery unnecessarily.

Decisions and trade-offs

The implementation moved business logic out of database configuration and into backend code after senior feedback. That made the behavior easier to test and review, even when database-driven configuration might have seemed faster initially.

The trade-off was accepting some implementation refactoring early so that quality and maintainability improved before the system became harder to change.

Outcome and evidence

The approved source material states that Paulo built a greenfield .NET API with automated testing treated as part of the design and that he incorporated senior feedback to move business logic into backend code.

Evidence limits

This page avoids private roadmap, customer, and implementation details. It is based on the approved resume and experience notes supplied on 2026-08-28.