Summary
Sandra Arato is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years' experience building customer-focused web products and platform features across companies from Spotify to Expedia and Leonardo.Ai. She excels at shaping scope and delivery, shipping frequently while aligning stakeholder needs and reducing operational risk—evidenced by a deployment workflow she introduced to keep ~20 developers productive. A pragmatic full‑stacker, her work spans React/TypeScript frontends, serverless AWS data pipelines, and performance-focused refactors and CI/CD improvements. She brings leadership experience as a tech lead and frequent contractor, mentoring teams and translating business requirements into usable interfaces and near‑real‑time reporting systems. An avid hackathonist and community participant, Sandra pairs a mechanical engineering background and design-thinking training with a continual learning mindset (including AWS ML and web performance certifications). Based in Queensland, she combines product empathy with hands‑on delivery to turn ambiguous problems into profitable, user-friendly solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Website Performance Optimization, Website Performance Optimization at Udacity
BSc Mechanical Engineering, BSc Mechanical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
AWS Machine Learning AI SageMaker - With Python, AWS Machine Learning AI SageMaker - With Python at Udemy Academy
Front-End Web Development Front End Development, Front-End Web Development Front End Development at General Assembly
Fazekas Mihály Fővárosi Gyakorló Általános Iskola és Gimnázum
Design Thinking Action Lab Design Thinking, Design Thinking Action Lab Design Thinking at Stanford University
Hungarian, English, Spanish, French