Ana Silva
Senior Engineer at McKinsey & Company
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAna Silva is a Senior Engineer at McKinsey & Company with six years of software engineering experience and a background as a trained biochemist and PhD researcher. She brings strong analytical and problem-solving skills honed in academic structural biology and drug-discovery projects to building practical, user-focused software solutions. After retraining through General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive, she shipped multiple full-stack projects (React, Rails, Vue) and quickly progressed through engineering roles at McKinsey. Based in Queensland, Australia, Ana combines scientific rigor with a product-minded engineering approach, comfortable translating complex domain problems into working applications. Her career arc reflects a rare blend of deep research discipline and hands-on web development, making her effective at tackling technically challenging, data-driven problems.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Chemistry, Master's degree Chemistry at University of LisbonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Chemistry at University of YorkSoftware Engineering Immersive Class SEI34, Software Engineering Immersive Class SEI34 at General Assembly Australia
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (6)
react4
react-native3
render1
python1
movie1
animation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anapgsilva/sei34-homework
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:31 pushes in 2 months
anapgsilva/colourFill
Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
Picture colouring app
Contributions:40 PRs, 73 pushes, 31 branches in 3 years 2 months
react-nativereactcolouringpicture
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