Carina Antunes
Full Stack Engineer at CERN
Geneva Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolCarina Antunes is a Full Stack Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native backend systems, currently shaping search and notification services at CERN. She specializes in backend and DevOps—Golang, PHP, Python, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS—while leading service teams and maintaining production infrastructure for large-scale open-source deployments. Her work spans search, messaging and content extraction (including hands-on contributions to testing and benchmarking in the tika-python ecosystem), reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and performance. Trained in computer engineering (MSc) and economics, she blends technical depth with systems thinking and a persistent curiosity for AI/ML that she applies to improve automation and observability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & ManagementBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
pytest10
python10
unit-test10
testing10
nlp9
benchmarking8
benchmark8
zlib7
gzip7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrismattmann/tika-python
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Tika-Python is a Python binding to the Apache Tika™ REST services allowing Tika to be called natively in the Python community.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Carina primarily focused on improving the test suite for the `tika-python` library. Their contributions included adding tests for various file types (PDF, HTML, MP3, JPG), supporting binary and remote file parsing, and benchmarking performance. They also addressed Python 2.7 compatibility issues within the testing framework, and benchmarked file parsing to test support for gzip and zlib compression.
extractionpythontranslation-interfacepython-bindingtika-server
carantunes/invenio-db
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Database management for Invenio.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 pushes, 6 tags in 1 year 7 months
mysqlsqldatabasedatabase-managementinvenio
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