Summary
Lavínia Paganini is a software engineer and Ph.D. student at Eindhoven University of Technology with a decade of experience building product-focused web and backend systems. She cofounded Hack Grrrl, Recife’s first female-majority hackathon, demonstrating a commitment to diversity and measurable community impact (231 entries, high female programmer participation and media coverage). Professionally she improved core user flows and reliability at Gympass using Scala, Docker, and Kubernetes, and has hands-on experience with React, GraphQL, Node.js, TypeScript, ElasticSearch and Python from roles at VTEX Lab and internships at Google. Her academic work bridges research and practice, including a Master’s thesis on gender diversity in hackathons and ongoing doctoral research in computer science. Comfortable shipping production features and analyzing product metrics, she combines engineering rigor with community-building instincts. Based in Eindhoven, she brings a rare mix of front-end, back-end and programmatic impact across industry and research.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado, Computer Science, Doutorado, Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology
Mestrado, Computer Science, Mestrado, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, Italian, Japanese