Emily Karungi
Lead Software Engineer at Thoughtworks
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Karungi is a Lead Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience building and guiding high-performing teams at ThoughtWorks. She moved up through hands-on roles from software engineer to tech lead and now leads engineering efforts, blending deep Python/Django expertise with consultancy-style delivery. Her background includes fintech and renewable energy projects, and she has mentored aspiring engineers as a Python mentor, demonstrating a commitment to coaching and knowledge transfer. Comfortable translating complex requirements into pragmatic architectures, she brings both executional rigor and client-facing experience to large-scale software initiatives. An engineer who started her career in Uganda and matured in international consultancy, she pairs technical depth with a global, impact-driven perspective.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Makerere University
English, Swahili, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
transparency7
django6
api5
api-documentation5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AutoScout24/api
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes in 11 months
apiapi-documentation
EmilyK/conf-site
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 month
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