Samanta Cicilia
SWE Director at Stone
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolSamanta Cicilia is a senior software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building quality-driven teams and delivery strategies across finance, education, and media in São Paulo. Currently SWE Director at Stone, she has led functions from QA and internal products to methodology, owning OKRs, budgets, hiring and technical strategy while scaling teams from small squads to 60+ engineers. A passionate people-first manager and mentor, she focuses on unlocking individual strengths, coaches aspiring women leaders, and shares practical test strategy insights including a chapter in a Brazilian book on deployment. Technically grounded in test automation, continuous delivery and safe development, she has led multidisciplinary teams across JavaScript, C#, Python and Go and built company-wide QA practices. Her background blends formal leadership training from MIT/Harvard programs and an MBA in solutions architecture with hands-on coaching and community organizing, reflecting a mix of strategic rigor and grassroots impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art PhotographiqueLeadership, Leadership at Harvard Business School OnlineXBA, Business Administration, XBA, Business Administration at Nova School of Business and EconomicsGraduation, Information Technology, 8,80, Graduation, Information Technology, 8,80 at Universidade Unigranrio | AfyaMBA, Diversity and Inclusion 4.0, MBA, Diversity and Inclusion 4.0 at BBI - Business Behavior InstituteMackenzie Presbyterian UniversityProject Management, Project Management at College of Business - The University of AkronMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Software Quality Assurance, Software Quality, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Software Quality Assurance, Software Quality at Escola Politécnica da UFRJGamification, Gamification, Gamification, Gamification at University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton SchoolLeadership, Leadership at MIT Professional Education
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
concretesolutions/magneton
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
A simple gem to generate all files needed in a project that will support Cucumber, SitePrism, Capybara and Selenium.
Contributions:22 commits, 18 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 2 months
capybarasiteprismcucumbergemselenium
pagarme/cafe-com-testes
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
O Café com Testes é uma iniciativa interna da Pagar.me para compartilhar conhecimento sobre testes e boas práticas de desenvolvimento. Essa iniciativa foi inspirada no Testing on the Toilet do Google
Contributions:26 reviews, 45 commits, 17 PRs in 7 months
jestcafessajavascriptdesenvolvimento
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