Summary
Maria Santana is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-focused web products from startup prototypes to enterprise-grade platforms, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently at Brex. She brings deep front-end expertise—React, TypeScript, design systems—and a history of shipping UI/UX-first solutions at CodeSandbox, Picter, and Fleety, while also contributing to backend and data work using Node, Rust, and Python. Maria excels at bridging product and engineering: she has led client-facing projects at Work & Co, built analytics and tracking libraries to drive operational decisions at Alice, and taught TDD and testing practices as a Udacity instructor. Comfortable in small teams and high-stakes client environments, she pairs pragmatic engineering with a designer’s attention to detail, and has spoken internationally on client-side security and developer community topics.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese