Paula Santana
Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolPaula Santana is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with nine years of professional experience building resilient back-end systems in Java and Kotlin across payments, fintech and e-commerce domains. She specializes in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka), observability and pragmatic API design, and has driven fraud and payment approval initiatives at Mastercard and Farfetch. Paula blends hands-on coding with architecture and staff-level responsibilities—mentoring juniors, running code reviews, designing solutions, and presenting demos to stakeholders. An active community leader, she leads Java Girls JUG and Lisbon JUG and invests in developer productivity and onboarding practices learned from scaling teams at Zup. Notably, she pairs deep engineering rigor (contract tests, CI/CD, monitoring) with a passion for sharing knowledge and improving developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (6)
projeto8
java3
kafka1
rest1
docker1
jersey1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
psanrosa13/kafka
May 2020 - Sep 2024
Projeto do curso de Kafka
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
kafkacursoprojeto
psanrosa13/psanrosa13
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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