Zoey De Souza Pessanha
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolZoey De Souza Pessanha is an OSS engineer with 7 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput financial systems using functional programming—especially Elixir—and a strong grounding in distributed systems, category theory and abstract algebra. She has shipped production payment and credit-card processing platforms at companies like Nubank, Solfácil and Cumbuca, and now works on open-source projects and Tidewave.ai at Dashbit. Guided by minimalism, intentionality and community, Zoey blends rigorous architecture with inclusive design, co-hosts Brazil’s first Elixir podcast to grow the ecosystem, and mentors engineers on scalable CI/CD and fault-tolerant patterns. As a Brazilian travesti, she brings uncommon social perspective to engineering, advocating for more accessible and human-centered technology.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado Ciência da Computação at UENF - Universidade Estadual do Norte FluminenseTécnico Tecnologia da Informação, Técnico Tecnologia da Informação at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Fluminense
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
494reputation
20kreached
9answers
39questions
Github Skills (200)
vim10
serverless10
liveview10
nano10
phoenix-framework10
zsh10
editors10
frontend10
dos10
nix10
windows10
bash10
kakoune10
powershell10
probot10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
zoedsoupe/zoedsoupe
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
zoedsoupe/prog-II-uenf
Dec 2019 - Aug 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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