LBAbout Luísa
Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable, high-quality software across global companies, including dLocal, Personio, PagSeguro PagBank, and Synopsys Inc. I’ve worked across startups to large tech organizations, primarily in B2B and financial services, shaping systems that perform, scale, and delight users.
My journey began in 2016 as a Software Engineer Fullstack specialized in Frontend Engineering, and over the years, I combine deep technical expertise with a passion for user-facing interaction, UI/UX, product design, engineering culture, mentoring, and team empowerment. My focus spans performance, observability, QA, accessibility (a11y), monitoring, testing strategies, and process excellence, with a growing interest in AI, intelligent agents, and modern system design.
Spanish
Fluent
Portuguese
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Madrid (up to 20km)
Experience
- dLocalSenior Software EngineerJuly 2025 - Today (11 months)Madrid, Spain• Design and deliver intuitive merchant dashboard features and experiences that shorten developer integration time and improve operational workflows efficiency.• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Backend to ship iterative improvements with solid testing and built‑in observability.• Build end‑to‑end functionality in a micro‑frontend architecture, integrating with Platform Services and backend services.• Define comprehensive testing strategy (unit, integration, E2E, manual and automated), and proactively monitor performance, API health, and reliability.• Elevate developer experience (DX) via refined flows and clearer documentation; maintain internal MCP server for documentation.
- PersonioSenior Software EngineerApril 2021 - July 2025 (4 years and 3 months)Madrid, Spain• Collaborated with engineers, designers, and stakeholders from various teams to enhance code quality, architecture, monitoring and design of the applications.• Worked with three teams, leading one technically, and spearheaded initiatives such as decoupling monolithic code, creating multiple microfrontends, managing and migrating multiple apps to monorepo, implementing federated modules components, and delivering scalable, well architected, and secure web applications.• Improved testing and monitoring practices by introducing a suite of methodologies including End-to-End (E2E), Functional UI, Exploratory Testing, Design Review, and Peer Testing.• Monitoring and performance enhancements using Datadog Synthetic Testing and Datadog Dashboards.• Contributed to initiatives with the Design System team to align product design and development efforts.• Company's incident manager.
- PagSeguro PagBankSoftware EngineerMay 2020 - April 2021 (11 months)São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil• Worked in a microfrontend architecture within an internal banking context, focusing on the Customer Relationship Management domain.• Led frontend development efforts for multiple applications within the Customer Relationship Management area, being responsible for the code quality, scalability, security, and integration of all the frontend applications.
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Education
- Bachelor of Information SystemsUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais2020Bachelor of Science
- Electrical EngineeringUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais2015Electrical Engineering