Hi, I'm Camila! 👋

I was born in Brazil, but I've lived most of my adult life in different cities like London, Montreal, Barcelona and Dubai.

I have 7+ years of software engineering experience and in my current position I build infrastructure-as-a-service features that allow developers to deploy their apps to their own AWS account.

People I work with often say that I'm good at:

• Asking insightful questions
• Providing thorough code reviews that spot edge cases others miss
• Rapidly diagnosing and resolving complex production issues through advanced debugging techniques
• Coming up with creative solutions by thinking outside the box

I thrive on challenging problems and enjoy the process of learning something seemingly complex at first. My learning style is multi-modal, meaning I absorb information best through a combination of different approaches - reading, listening, experimenting, and teaching others.

Outside work, I'm passionate about traveling and exploring new places. I enjoy indoor bouldering, hiking, and being in nature, especially near water. I'm naturally curious and love learning about various topics, particularly human behavior, psychology and neuroscience.

Timeline

2014

• Moved from 📍Rio de Janeiro to 📍London to study Masters in Management at London Business School.
  • Despite having programming experience and having been an intern at a web agency in Rio, I chose a management program because I had a limiting belief that my lack of CS degree meant I couldn't be a software engineer.

2015

• Got my first full-time job at Medallia as an implementations analyst.
  • During Medallia onboarding in San Francisco, I had meaningful conversations with engineers that sparked the realization that I could pursue software engineering despite my non-traditional background. 🤩

2016

• Part of my job at Medallia involved coding in Javascript and I became an expert in it in the context of Medallia implementation.
• I also started working on side projects to learn the language applied for web development.

2017

• Got my first job as a Junior Software Engineer at Busbud, a Canadian startup.

2018

• Got promoted to Intermediate Software Engineer ✨

2019

• Moved to 📍Barcelona because my partner got an opportunity there.
• Joined Typeform as a Backend Software Engineer.
  • I got to learn Go and fall in love with the language. ❤️

2020

• COVID-19 happened, Barcelona was in full lockdown and we decided to move to 📍Santiago de Compostela to be closer to my partner's family.
• Got a job at Aula as a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer which allowed me to work remotely.

2021

• At the end of that year, I was made redundant from Aula due to the company winding down and pivoting to a new product.

2022

• Took a few months break then joined Flightcontrol as a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build infrastructure-as-a-service features on top of AWS.

2024

• Got promoted to Staff Backend Software Engineer at Flightcontrol ✨