Summary
Maria De Sousa is a Senior Firmware Developer with nine years of experience building embedded systems and OTA update solutions for IoT devices, currently contributing at Qubika from São Paulo. She holds an MSc in Internet of Things from Universidade Estadual de Campinas and has a strong C/C++ background across ESP32, Xilinx ZynQ Ultrascale+, Embedded Linux and Yocto-based platforms. Her work spans firmware architecture, requirements specification, implementation and debugging for photonics, spectrometer and PON/GPON products, pairing hands-on device-level coding with systems thinking. Maria also brings data-savvy skills in Python for ML algorithms and analysis, enabling smarter firmware features and diagnostics. Known for bridging academic IoT research with practical product releases, she often tackles complex update and reliability challenges that keep deployed fleets healthy.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Internet of Things, Master's degree Internet of Things at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of West London
English, Portuguese