Summary
Maria Souza is a Data Engineer with nine years of experience blending academic research and production development, currently building data solutions at Jusbrasil. She began in image processing research—publishing three papers—and later sharpened practical skills in web data extraction with Scrapy and Selenium before returning to research on a Samsung-funded project at UFPE. Her work spans cloud architectures, data pipelines, visualization, and civic data instruction, and she teaches Python for civic innovation while mentoring women entering tech. An active Python community organizer, Maria contributes to PUG-PE and PyLadies Recife through talks and event organization, signaling strong developer-advocacy instincts. Based in Pernambuco, Brazil, she combines rigorous academic foundations in Computer Science with hands-on engineering and a passion for community-driven open-source and educational impact.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 10 at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
English, Portuguese