# Thamiris Zalkowitsch > Senior Software Engineer | FullStack | Python Specialist | TypeScript | Node.js | RESTful APIs | ES2015+, CSS, HTML5 Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/thamiris After five years as an undergraduate student of Pharmaceutical Sciences and working in the field, I faced a sudden change in my life that gave me two options - change my entire career path to achieve my biggest dreams or settle with the path I was already into. After considering every possible outcome, I chose to dive into a new path. Since then I've been dedicating myself to learn Software Engineering and I have already achieved so much by studying and putting myself out there. This is the kind of person I am - when I put my mind to something, I'll do it. I'll get the job done, the best way possible. I've been working as Software Engineer since 2019, developing products focused on user needs. I have good communication, planning, logic, and coding skills. Right now my main goal is to develop my career to a higher level in order to become a good leader and someday to have my own team. Competencies: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, Git, GitHub. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer III @ Carta Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer I - Applications and Enrollments @ Guild Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States Worked with TypeScript and Node.js both backend and frontend, together with AWS Lambda and GraphQL for the APIs Were responsible for the applications and enrollment workflow Regularly answered external requests, maintained a percentage of tasks every sprint to improve user experience, solved problems faced by the final user as well as our staff Was responsible for structuring backlog tasks for me and other teammates based on our team goals and priorities Had regular on-call rotation Was heavily involved in writing documentation and conversations about product criteria and requirements, and setting expectations across teams Make architectural decisions across our repositories to improve them regarding infrastructure, writing systems design, and RNDs ### Senior Software Engineer I - Catalog Tools @ Guild Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States Responsible for providing support for Guild's catalog of educational institutions by maintaining a large amount of data Indexing and syncing data using Algolia Implemented and maintained interfaces for external services integrations using GraphQL and RPC Implemented testing patterns and optimized pre-deployment code quality by improving code coverage, and legibility, optimizing CI/CD using GitHub actions Discuss project and product requirements and set expectations across teams Mentoring junior engineers Regularly on on-call rotations, responsible for triaging, prioritizing, and solving external requests ### Senior Software Engineer @ Liquido Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States Joined the company to be the engineer responsible for designing and developing the company's new digital wallet, integrating with a Brazilian third-party account and card issuer As the team leader, I was responsible for building RESTful APIs, writing automated E2E tests with AWS Lambda, and deploying with AWS Beanstalk Implement Kafka producers and consumers for the digital wallet service Acted as the bridge between the American and the Brazilian team, as well as being the point of contact for other Brazilian partners we made business with ### Software Engineer @ Automox Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States Joined the internal tools team to work mainly to optimize manual processes adding software experiences throughout the company, as the first Django subject matter expert As a result, saved more than 2000 hours of work for at least 7 company departments from April to December/2021 Led the implementation of Django DRF patterns, Django/Python style guides, and testing guidelines that are followed in multiple projects Led the implementation of unit tests and increased the code coverage from 0 to over 60% Built a Django project boilerplate that is leveraging other projects Led the development of the company achievements tool that was used across the company Maintained production environments for the team’s projects ### Software Engineer @ Zestt Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Work in the backoffice team, closely with Product Owner and UX/UI designer to develop new products from technical design to launch, such as purchasing and sales modules. Joined the task force to improve the project quality, and as a result, we increased the code coverage from 2% to 66% of the Zestt codebase. I've implemented the first version of the client onboarding process integrating the email (Sendgrid) and SMS (Twilio) libraries based on the user settings. I worked on the third-party APIs integration with eNotas (Brazilian tax invoice service) and IUGU (payment service). Often, working as an interim scrum master, unblocking other developers when needed, running daily meetings, and helping with documentation. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Zestt Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Joined as the fourth engineer of the company and helped to build the first backoffice MVP for Zestt using Django Forms and jQuery. Helped to debug and fix issues and developed tools for the support team: - Created the settings module to allow client companies to configure taxes and financial information by themselves without creating any ticket support. - Worked on the first version of the feature system that works in parallel with the permission system to activate specific modules of the STP avoiding engineering support tickets. Worked on backend refactor to allow the async load to the frontend, changing from Django Forms to Django Rest Framework. This task leveraged the transition from jQuery to React. ### Pharmaceutical Technology Intern @ Merck Group Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil Assistance in the development of new products, projects, and optimization and monitoring of production processes. ### Vaccines Marketing Pharmaceutical Intern @ GlaxoSmithKline Pharma GmbH Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil Development of promotional material for campaign Clinical research Assistance in the development of marketing strategies Product management ### Food Microbiology Technician @ Bioqualitas Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Rio de Janeiro e Região, Brasil - Análise Microbiologia de Alimentos, Ar, Água e Superfícies - Atendimento ao cliente - Emissão de resultados - Rotina em Laboratório - Gestão de Qualidade ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering Springboard ### Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thamiris-zalkowitsch --- Source: https://flows.cv/thamiris JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thamiris/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01