Vanessa Leite
Senior Software Engineer at SynSense
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVanessa Leite is a Senior Software Engineer in Zurich with nine years of professional experience and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, blending deep scientific rigor with practical software craftsmanship. She has a strong background in C++ and graphics from a long tenure at Tecgraf/PUC‑Rio—where she led feature design and major refactors for a large seismic visualization product—and now applies that systems-level thinking to neuromorphic and embedded-focused work at SynSense. Vanessa is comfortable moving between research and production: she taught neuroinformatics, ran Scrum teams as a certified ScrumMaster, and has shipped high-performance visualization and real‑time monitoring tools. Known for clear communication and team coaching, she helps resolve conflicts and lift team performance while advocating for gender equality to foster more creative, inclusive engineering cultures. An interdisciplinary thinker, she leverages neuroscience insights to inform novel software solutions for complex, data‑intensive problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Graphics, 8.9/10, Master's degree, Computer Graphics, 8.9/10 at PUC-RioDoctor of Science, Neuroscience, Doctor of Science, Neuroscience at University of Zurich and ETH ZurichBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 7.9/10, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 7.9/10 at Universidade Federal do Maranhão
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (43)
segmentation9
export-to-excel9
spiking-neural-networks9
computer-vision8
ini8
hardware8
pytorch8
exporter7
machine-learning7
csv6
deep-learning6
inference6
summarize6
cherry-pick6
rendering6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ssinhaleite/znz-intro-to-neuroscience-I-summary
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ssinhaleite/machine-learning-projects
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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