Larissa Galeno
Technical Leadership at Fundação Coppetec
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLarissa Galeno is a technical leader and educator based in Rio de Janeiro with nine years of experience bridging research, product design, and full‑stack engineering. Currently pursuing a PhD in Systems and Computer Engineering at UFRJ, she combines academic rigor with hands‑on development—implementing APIs in Node.js/TypeScript, maintaining front-ends in React and Angular, and applying user research to UX improvements. She has taught software and UX courses, built curricula and video courses, and led community initiatives to increase women’s participation in computing. Her industry work spans agile teams at Grupo SOMA and Grupo Boticário as well as research collaboration at IBM, where she supported scientific publication and user studies. Colleagues know her as a pragmatic mentor who moves between code, pedagogy, and product discovery, able to translate research insights into production features.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação COPPE/UFRJ, Doctorate Programa de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação COPPE/UFRJ at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
projeto10
rio9
javascript5
nodejs5
css5
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lagaleno/toti
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Code repo for classes at _toti
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 6 months
python
lagaleno/lagaleno.github.io
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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