Summary
Michelle D'souza is a senior software engineer and technical leader with over a decade and a half of experience delivering quality solutions across enterprise and startup environments. She has led teams and projects at Cisco, ThoughtWorks and several startups, blending expertise in Ruby on Rails, React/Angular, C#, NoSQL and analytics with strong practices in TDD, continuous delivery and lean/Agile delivery. A former founder and principal engineer, she excels at turning complex domain requirements into maintainable, automated systems while mentoring engineers and advancing women in tech. Based in Calgary, she brings both consultancy breadth for global clients and deep hands-on implementation skills, often bridging front-end UX concerns with robust backend architecture. An electrical and computer engineering graduate, she pairs formal engineering rigor with a pragmatic, product-focused approach to shipping software.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
B.Engg, Electronics & Communications Engineering, B.Engg, Electronics & Communications Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology
English, portuguese (brazilian), various indian languages