Letania Ferreira is an Administrative Analyst and software engineer with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging language research, product localization, and web engineering. Based in San Francisco, she has led Portuguese i18n efforts for major product releases at Meta via Tundra while also developing full‑stack features and SDK work at Rollbar. Her background as a PhD linguist and former professor informs a data‑driven approach to pattern finding, quantitative and acoustic analysis, and scalable content localization—skills she’s applied to grow linguistic datasets by 20–30%. She combines customer-facing success (consistent 100% satisfaction in support roles) with hands-on engineering, project management, and public-speaking strengths. Letania is particularly adept at translating complex linguistic nuance into engineering and product decisions, closing the gap between communication and technology.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduation in Public Planning and Management Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Post-Graduation in Public Planning and Management Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at Universidade de Pernambuco
Software Engineer, Software Engineer at Hackbright Academy
University of Georgia
PhD Spanish Linguistics(focus in speech and acoustic phonetics), PhD Spanish Linguistics(focus in speech and acoustic phonetics) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Web app that makes dining suggestions. Has special field for admins/vendors that allows publicity via Twilio SMS
Contributions:6 PRs, 62 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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