Summary
Maria Lima is a Senior Software Engineer based in Rio de Janeiro with five years building distributed, cloud-native systems across fintech and startup environments. She has deep hands-on experience with microservices, Clojure and Kotlin backends, and the full delivery lifecycle on AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability tooling. At Nubank and Stone she delivered scalable financial services spanning Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, contributing to architecture decisions and cross-cultural, distributed teams. Maria is comfortable across languages (C#, Python, Go) and data platforms, and she brings a pragmatic focus on performance, reliability and autonomous team delivery. Notably, she progressed rapidly from entry-level roles into senior engineering by pairing strong implementation skills with continual ownership of system evolution and operational excellence.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
High School Formation with Professional Certification Industrial Automation, High School Formation with Professional Certification Industrial Automation at Cefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca
German, English, Spanish