Maria Maia
Co-Founder at Bailarinos pelo Mundo
Bahia, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Maia is a co-founder and active open-source developer from Bahia, Brazil, with three years of professional experience focused on building inclusive tech communities and practical developer tools. She leads Cumbuca Dev’s mission to increase representation in IT through hands-on education and open-source collaboration while contributing as a core developer to brutils-python, a widely used library for Brazilian-specific data validation (1.2k downloads/month, 40+ stars). Comfortable bridging technical and people-facing roles, Maria also brings multilingual field experience as an English translator and tour guide for large international dance trips, which sharpens her communication and logistics skills. Her background in technical education (Junior Achievement) and grassroots community work signals a maker mindset: she prefers shipping pragmatic solutions that help underserved developers. Notably, she combines product-focused open-source contributions with real-world customer interaction, giving her a rare blend of empathy and delivery orientation in early-stage projects.
3 years of coding experience
Curso Técnico Integrado, Information Technology, Inicialização em tecnologia, Curso Técnico Integrado, Information Technology, Inicialização em tecnologia at Junior Achievement (JA Worldwide)Ensino Médio, Ensino Médio at Sistema de Ensino Energia
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (19)
brazil10
json10
python10
testing10
validation10
api10
autodoc10
yaml10
pip10
rest-api10
integration-testing10
1password8
wordpress7
brasil7
ruby5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cumbucadev/design
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Icons and logos
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
antoniamaia/brutils-python
Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
🇧🇷 Validador de CPF e CNPJ para Python 2.7 e 3.x
Contributions:56 pushes, 22 branches in 5 months
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