Summary
Cindy Lopes is a Principal Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, data-intensive applications and leading platform architecture. She combines deep hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java and C# with AWS-first infrastructure design, having implemented Kubernetes/EKS, Spark, and large Docker clusters to optimize cost and scalability. Cindy has moved between finance, biomedical, and enterprise SaaS domains—shipping interactive React UIs for market data, ETL pipelines for large datasets, and a TypeScript platform for early-stage drug development. She’s adept at bridging research and production, drawing on a rare dual background in computer science and biochemistry to translate complex scientific requirements into robust software. Known for pragmatic security and cost-optimization initiatives across AWS accounts, she’s equally comfortable mentoring teams and contributing code. Based in Toronto, she brings a blend of systems-level thinking and applied ML/data engineering experience that helps organizations operationalize research-grade workflows.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Carleton University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Biochemistry at Queen's University