Etiene Dalcol
Senior Software Engineer at Polygloss
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolEtiene Dalcol is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience blending NLP research, product engineering and cloud-native infrastructure. She founded Polygloss, an award-winning mobile app and research project that uses computational linguistics to help learners express themselves in another language, and led its product, engineering and community efforts. Comfortable shipping full-stack solutions, she has extensive Terraform/Terratest experience contributing to high-profile HashiCorp modules (Vault, Consul) and building dependable CI/AMI workflows. Her background ranges from data engineering and large-scale game analytics to mentoring, conference speaking and organizing LuaConf, reflecting strong technical leadership and developer advocacy. A polyglot and classically trained pianist, she brings a multidisciplinary curiosity to language-focused ML problems and is currently scaling language learning products while improving German and exploring new languages. Based in Barcelona, she pairs rigorous academic training (MRes NLP, M.Eng.) with hands-on delivery at companies like Gruntwork and Rover.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'Ingénieur (M.Eng.) Software Engineering, Diplôme d'Ingénieur (M.Eng.) Software Engineering at ENSTAPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroBachelor's degree Music - Piano, Bachelor's degree Music - Piano at Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroMRes Computer Science - Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics, MRes Computer Science - Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (18)
hashicorp-vault10
testing10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
automation10
packer10
go10
aws10
automations10
lua6
php6
directory-structure6
python6
ruby6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-aws-vault
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
A Terraform Module for how to run Vault on AWS using Terraform and Packer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 116 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Etiene primarily contributed to testing and automating the deployment of Hashicorp Vault on AWS. They added tests for Vault Enterprise installations and the auto-unseal feature. Their work involved integrating with testing frameworks like Terratest and utilizing Packer for AMI building. The user also made adjustments to user data scripts for EC2 instances, including setting up web servers for testing the authentication flow.
terraform-modulespackervaultterraformaws
hashicorp/terraform-aws-consul
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
A Terraform Module for how to run Consul on AWS using Terraform and Packer
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 57 commits, 41 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Etiene focused on enhancing the testing and build processes for the Terraform module. Their contributions include adding tests for Consul Enterprise installations, refactoring the passing of environment variables to Packer, and modifying the AMI publishing workflow. They also addressed region-specific issues and set up nightly builds. These changes improve the module's reliability and automation capabilities.
packerterraformawsconsulterraform-module
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