Summary
Ana Carlos is a Software Engineer based in Portugal with 11 years of experience building backend systems, primarily working with Ruby. She has progressed from junior roles and developer coaching at Makers Academy to backend engineering positions at Simply Business, Stuart, EverAI, and now Cleo, demonstrating steady growth in product-focused teams. Ana combines hands-on coding with mentoring and curriculum development experience, reflecting a strong aptitude for knowledge transfer and developer productivity. Her background in psychology and educational psychology gives her a distinctive user- and team-centered approach to problem solving and onboarding. Comfortable in fast-moving startups and scale-ups, she brings practical experience automating processes and integrating APIs to streamline operations. Colleagues rely on her as a dependable backend engineer who also thinks cross-functionally about people and process.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Course Educational Psychology, Master's Course Educational Psychology at Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada
Web development, Web development at Makers
Professional Photography, Professional Photography at Instituto Português de Fotografia
Portuguese, English, Spanish