Summary
Mariana Zancheta is a frontend developer and visual artist with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending fine arts, illustration, animation and UI design into engaging digital experiences. Currently at Blip.pt, she brings a designer’s eye to frontend engineering, informed by a Fine Arts degree from UNICAMP and specialized studies in Graphic and UI/UX Design from CalArts. Her background includes creating educational video content and visual identities for universities and game projects, and she continues freelance illustration and wood sculpture work alongside development. Mariana recently completed a postgraduate switch to software development, pairing creative craft skills and Adobe/Unity tool fluency with modern frontend practice. She’s known for turning pedagogical and heritage-restoration sensibilities into clear, user-centered interfaces, reflecting a rare blend of artistic nuance and pragmatic engineering.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Specialization, UI/UX Design, Specialization, UI/UX Design at California Institute of the Arts
Fine Arts Bachelor degree, Arts and design, Fine Arts Bachelor degree, Arts and design at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Postgraduate Degree, Switch - Software Development, Computer Software Engineering, Postgraduate Degree, Switch - Software Development, Computer Software Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
English, French