Daniela Plascencia is a Software Engineering Manager based in Mexico with a decade of experience building and operating Linux-based systems across semiconductor and cloud infrastructure companies. She progressed from embedded Linux intern to senior reliability engineer and software engineer roles at Intel, Oracle, and Canonical, now leading engineering efforts at Canonical. Daniela combines deep systems-level expertise with team leadership, focusing on reliability, embedded-to-cloud integration, and production-grade software delivery. Her academic background in mechatronics and advanced studies in computer science reflect a hardware-aware approach to software design that helps bridge firmware and cloud-native services. Known for pragmatic problem solving, she brings hands-on coding experience together with mentoring and operational rigor to scale complex projects. Fluent in Spanish and rooted in Mexico, she often leverages cross-cultural collaboration to align distributed teams and shipping priorities.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey
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Daniela Plascencia - Software Engineering Manager at Canonical