Laura Couto
Software Enginer II at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Couto is a software engineer with six years of experience blending data engineering, game design and interactive media. Currently a Software Engineer II at QuantumBlack (McKinsey), she contributes to production-ready data science tooling such as Kedro, where she has improved configuration management and maintained dataset integrations. Her background spans backend systems (Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS) and functional stacks like Clojure, plus a long history in game and media production as a freelance designer. Trained at 42 São Paulo and with a degree in Game and Interactive Media Design, she pairs low-level systems work (assembly, C, raytracing projects) with creative direction and digital sculpture skills. Passionate about the intersection of art and technology, she brings a designer’s eye to reproducible, maintainable engineering. Colleagues describe her wryly as a “grumpy robot” who nevertheless ships thoughtful, well-documented code.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at 42Bacharelado, Game and Interactive Media Design, Bacharelado, Game and Interactive Media Design at Universidade Anhembi MorumbiPós-Graduação, Direção de Arte Audiovisual, Pós-Graduação, Direção de Arte Audiovisual at Centro Universitário SenacCurso Livre, Escultura Digital em Zbrush, Curso Livre, Escultura Digital em Zbrush at MELIES | Escola de Cinema 3D e Animação
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (9)
kedro10
python10
pipeline10
data-engineering10
data-pipelines9
data-pipeline9
mlops9
machine-learning8
yaml8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kedro-org/kedro
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses software engineering best practices to help you create data engineering and data science pipelines that are reproducible, maintainable, and modular.
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:80 reviews, 70 PRs, 503 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the Kedro project, focusing on data engineering aspects. Their work involved fixing docstrings, updating links related to datasets, and bumping the `kedro-datasets` version. They also refactored code to use `OmegaConfigLoader`, improving configuration management within the project. Additionally, the user addressed various formatting and linting errors throughout the codebase.
experiment-trackingpythonsciencepipelinedata-science
lrcouto/42_cpp
Oct 2021 - Apr 2023
Repository for the code for the 42 São Paulo C++ introduction to OOP.
Contributions:77 PRs, 72 pushes, 78 branches in 1 year 5 months
cppc-plus-plusoopintroduction-to-c
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