Summary
Vaneska Sousa is a product-focused technology leader with 8 years of experience building teams and shipping complex digital products across Brazil’s tech and education ecosystems. As a Product Owner and former project manager, she has structured product functions from the ground up, led cross-functional teams for clients like HP, and mentors over 30 student-residents in real-world innovation projects at Apple Developer Academy initiatives. She blends hands-on engineering roots (TotalCross, Java) with strong people-centric leadership, prioritizing culture, user-driven discovery, and data-backed success metrics. A founder-turned-manager, she has moved a gamified education platform to 1K users and consistently applies agile practices to align business, design, and engineering. Based in Ceará, Vaneska pairs technical curiosity from physics and computer tech training with a knack for cultivating high-performance, human-centered teams.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduação, Physics, 2 semesters attended, Graduação, Physics, 2 semesters attended at Universidade Estadual do Ceará
Graduação, Physics, Graduação, Physics at Universidade Federal do Ceará
Técnico, Técnico em Informática, Técnico, Técnico em Informática at EEEP Professor César Campelo