Projects - Lucas Cardoso

Production systems designed for organizational ownership

Every System I Built Was Designed for the Day I Left

The processes, architectures, and organizational investments I made so that every production system I built at a mid-size brokerage would survive without me.

Leadership

Ultra-lightweight landing page platform architecture on Cloudflare edge

When Your Users Run Out of Internet, Page Weight Is a Product Requirement

How I designed and shipped an ultra-low bandwidth landing page platform using Astro and Cloudflare, enabling non-technical sales teams to launch edge-deployed pages while saving ~70% in load times and cutting time to market from 4 days to 6 hours.

Web PerformanceReal Estate

Styllus homepage with Rio de Janeiro hero image and property search module

Rebuilding a Real Estate Website for a Mobile-First Market

How I led the migration of a 2,000-listing real estate site from a vendor template to Astro SSG on Cloudflare's edge — cutting page weight by 96%, increasing organic traffic 35%, and shipping an AI assistant that changed how buyers evaluate properties.

AIReal Estate

Automated video rendering pipeline for real estate listings

Video for Every Listing Was Economically Impossible. Then It Wasn't.

How I turned full-catalog video coverage from a $33K impossibility into a $26 reality by building an automated render farm on ephemeral cloud compute.

InfrastructureNode.js

XML Manager database dashboard showing property metrics and distribution

How I Built a Data Pipeline That Gave 2,000 Listings a Perfect Score

A real estate XML feed management system that eliminated human error from portal submissions — increasing conversions 35% and click-through rates 40%.

DataNode.js