Camila Araújo
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCamila Araújo is a software engineer with eight years of experience building data-intensive systems and APIs, currently contributing to Microsoft's Commerce + Ecosystems team in Seattle. She specializes in large-scale data pipelines and backend services, having previously shaped aggregation and transformation workflows at realtor.com and improved Rails-based APIs for the Public Lab open-source community. Her work blends practical production engineering with research-informed thinking—stemming from an academic background in recommender systems, social network analysis, and algorithmic bias research at UFMG and a visiting stint at Harvard. Notably, she has contributed substantive backend refactors and search improvements to the widely used publiclab/plots2 repository, demonstrating both open-source collaboration and a focus on improving data retrieval and modeling. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs rigorous data fidelity with scalable API design.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student Computer Science, Exchange student Computer Science at University of Prince Edward IslandMSc Student Computer Science, MSc Student Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
algorithm10
algorithms10
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ruby10
postgresql9
database-design9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Feb 2018 - May 2019
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Camila primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the publiclab/plots2 repository. Their work included refactoring the search profile endpoint, enhancing the API search profiles, and adding functionalities to filter results. Furthermore, the user implemented changes in the `SearchService` and `SrchScope` classes to improve the search functionality and data retrieval. They also made significant updates to the database structure, introducing new fields and modifying existing ones to improve the data model.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
milaaraujo/plots2
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
PublicLab.org - a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Contributions:129 pushes, 49 branches in 7 months
balloonexchangeknowledgerailsexchange-platform
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