Fanny V
Software Engineer at Spotify
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFanny V is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend and core infrastructure for high-traffic consumer platforms, most recently joining Spotify after senior engineering work on The Pokémon Company’s e-commerce stack using Java and AWS. She combines hands-on implementation of services with mentoring and advocacy for underrepresented engineers, and she writes about open source, functional programming, and web development on her blog. Her career spans major tech firms including Microsoft, Meta, and Nubank, and she brings practical open-source experience—contributing front-end improvements to the popular Docusaurus project and maintaining a practical tooling script that evolved from bash to a polished Python utility. Based in the UK, she pairs product-focused engineering with a knack for improving developer experience and documentation. Outside work she enjoys cooking and biking, a reflection of her practical, iterative approach to crafting solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Postgraduate Degree at University of CambridgeTechnician Informatics, Technician Informatics at IFPBBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (16)
javascript10
bootstra10
front-end-development10
bootstrap10
python10
react10
documentation9
open-source9
css8
html8
mdx8
algorithms6
algorithm6
data-structures6
bash6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
OpenDevUFCG/Tamburetei
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Fazendo de tamburete as cadeiras de CC@UFCG.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 34 PRs, 75 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Fanny primarily focused on creating a script to generate a folder structure for organizing course materials, initially using bash scripting and later refactoring to Python. They enhanced the Python script with color-coding, and output formatting. They also resolved conflicts and made adjustments to the output to improve its presentation.
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facebook/docusaurus
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 32 commits, 40 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Fanny contributed to the development of the Docusaurus documentation website by adding and modifying features related to blog post pages, tags, and overall layout. Their work included implementing a bootstrap theme for the website, which involved creating new components such as the navbar, footer, and MDX components. They also focused on the integration of pagination, including both blog list and blog post paginators.
javascriptreact
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