Maia Kanegae
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMaia Kanegae is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who builds performant, user-focused products and currently works on the WhatsApp Windows client at Meta. A Computer Science graduate from Universidade de São Paulo, she has production experience across large-scale consumer platforms at Meta, Uber and Facebook, and has shipped services using Go, Java, Kafka, Flink, Node.js and React. She brings a practical full-stack mindset—comfortable with desktop clients, microservices and data pipelines—and a strong emphasis on localization and UX, evidenced by contribution to the popular osu-web project improving Portuguese translations. Earlier roles include architecting marketplace features at VTEX and building a Telegram chatbot and high-traffic gaming servers, demonstrating both product thinking and operational ownership. Based in London, Maia blends rigorous engineering with attention to usability and internationalization, making her effective on global products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of São Paulo
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (9)
php10
localization10
translation10
web-content9
webpages9
laravel-mix8
laravel8
frontend5
backend4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ppy/osu-web
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
the browser-facing portion of osu!
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Maia primarily focused on updating and improving Portuguese (Brazilian) language translations within the `osu-web` repository. Their commits involved changes to `.php` files, specifically updating capitalization, correcting typos, ensuring consistency with English language files, and adding missing translation strings. These changes affected user interface elements and text displayed within the web application. The user also ensured proper formatting.
browserbackendfrontendosularavel
gabekanegae/botdokanebot
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
[PT-BR] Um bot tosco com piadas internas toscas. Não deve ser levado a sério.
Contributions:1 review, 52 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 11 months
botpiadasriobotsnodejs
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