Summary
Carolina Suga is a seasoned team lead and self-taught engineer with over two decades working across operating systems, networking and training, and 12 years of focused software engineering experience. Based in São Paulo, she has led engineering teams at Nortal after a progression from senior and staff roles, and has a track record of stabilizing and certifying complex Ruby on Rails platforms (including SOC 2 readiness) and consolidating microservices. Her background spans Linux administration since 1995, DevOps and infrastructure projects, API design and documentation, and hands-on work in Python, Ruby, Java and mobile stacks. She has saved operational costs by replacing commercial licenses with free software and repeatedly delivered payment and API integrations that launched without unresolved issues. A pragmatic technologist with no strong language loyalties, she pairs deep legacy-system know-how with modern cloud deployments and a history of technical training and knowledge transfer. Carolina prefers scheduling conversations via Calendly, reflecting a structured, time-efficient collaboration style.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout Mathematics, Dropout Mathematics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Colégio Etapa
English, Portuguese, Japanese