Marcela Cunha
Team Lead at Liferay
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcela Cunha is a Team Lead and backend-focused software engineer with eight years at Liferay, progressing from intern to leadership within the Low-Code BPM initiative. She holds a Master's in Computer Science from UFPE and brings deep Java, REST API, GraphQL and database expertise coupled with OSGi and React experience. Marcela leads and mentors squads of engineers, aligning product, design and delivery to build reliable low-code solutions while still contributing hands-on to core portal services. Her open-source contributions to the prominent liferay-portal project include refactors, integration tests and nuanced work on object relationships and edge properties, demonstrating attention to maintainability and complex domain modeling. Comfortable bridging technical details and team processes, she combines academic rigor with practical impact across enterprise platform engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc Computer Science at Centro de Informática UFPEColégio Santa MariaBacharelado Engenharia da Computação, Bacharelado Engenharia da Computação at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (11)
javas10
liferay10
object-oriented-programming10
java10
integration-testing10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
testing8
sql7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-portal
Dec 2017 - Mar 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1022 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marcela primarily contributed to the back-end of the Liferay Portal, focusing on enhancing object-related services. The commits involve refactoring code, adding integration tests, and implementing features related to object relationships, including the handling of edge properties and root node deployments. The user also addressed bugs and improved code maintainability by inlining methods.
marcelabc/com-liferay-dynamic-data-mapping
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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