Summary
Marilene Da Costa is an interdisciplinary software engineer and former economist with nine years of professional experience spanning investment banking, academia, and cloud engineering. Currently an Assistant Manager, she recently contributed to VMware’s Tanzu Hub where she improved multi‑cloud observability and rewrote a Python reporting pipeline in Go to cut processing time from hours to seconds. She combines deep analytical training (MPA from Harvard, MSIS from Santa Clara) with hands-on R&D in distributed systems, GraphQL, ElasticSearch and concurrent Go services. Comfortable communicating across time zones and disciplines, she pairs technical problem-solving with operational leadership—designing billing and case-management systems and running hiring and training. Outside work she balances a mix of economics, fitness and violin interests, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that fuels both product improvements and user-focused documentation.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MPA-ID, International Development, MPA-ID, International Development at Harvard University
MSIS, Information Systems, MSIS, Information Systems at Santa Clara University