Summary
Rachel Curioso is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems in Elixir and Ruby, and practical front-end chops in React and Vue. She has driven API and integrations work that scaled product usage and partnerships, with hands-on experience across monoliths and microservices, Postgres, RabbitMQ and Kafka. A former architect and urban planner who transitioned to web development in 2017, she brings a design-minded, systems-level approach to modeling and team collaboration. Rachel has worked as a consultant and in fast-moving startups, contributing to public APIs, incident management, and hiring processes while co-organizing study groups to support women in tech. Based in Rotterdam, she combines production-grade engineering with community advocacy focused on increasing diversity in software.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
English, Portuguese, French