Summary
Maria Braga is a Software Engineer II with 10 years of experience designing and implementing robust architectures across machine translation, IoT for home energy, and programmatic advertising. She has scaled systems at high-growth startups and tech leaders like Unbabel and Uber, and currently contributes to observability at Datadog. Comfortable across databases, cloud services, deployment scripting and CI/CD, she emphasizes clean code and practical engineering practices that bridge research and production. Her background in robotics and machine translation gives her a unique edge in data-driven system design and pipeline automation. Based in Lisbon, she pairs hands-on backend expertise (Django, Kafka, Postgres, Cassandra) with experience managing stakeholder priorities in fast-paced projects.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electronical and Computer Engeneering Robotics / Control / Intelligent Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electronical and Computer Engeneering Robotics / Control / Intelligent Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico