Zoey De Souza Pessanha
OSS Engineer at Dashbit
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, Computer Science, Bacharelado, Computer Science at UENF - Universidade Estadual do Norte FluminenseTécnico, Information Technology, Técnico, Information Technology at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia FluminenseBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at Descomplica Faculdade Digital
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (200)
vim10
serverless10
elisp10
nano10
phoenix-framework10
nodejs10
editors10
sublime10
frontend10
dos10
nix10
bash10
sms10
editor10
github-bot10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
cloudwalk/hermes-mcp
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Elixir Model Context Protocol (MCP) SDK
Contributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 40 PRs in 1 month
agentic-aielixirmcpmcp-server
supabase-community/supabase-ex
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A complete Toolkit to interact with Supabase APIs from Elixir
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 36 PRs in 1 year 6 months
sdk-elixirsupabasesupabase-elixir
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