Summary
Karine Valença is a Backend Engineer with a decade-plus in IT and a Bachelor's in Software Engineering from the University of Brasília, currently based in Paris. She has progressed from QA lead roles into senior backend development, building production services in Golang and Node.js and integrating payment and social APIs (Stripe, TikTok, Meta, Google, Twitch). Her experience spans cloud-native tooling and observability—Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana—and she has shipped libraries and backend systems at IBM and fast-growing startups like Powder and Back Market. Comfortable across testing, automation, and backend architecture, she brings a pragmatic mindset that prioritizes reliability and measurable observability in distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese, French