Maria D'costa
Full Stack Software Engineer at Expensify
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolMaria D'costa is a Full Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust, cross-stack features and APIs, currently delivering production systems at Expensify using C++, PHP, JavaScript, React, and SQLite. She combines backend reliability work—evidenced by contributions to distributed database job processing and error handling on a well-regarded project like Expensify/Bedrock—with frontend and mobile experience in React and React Native. Based in Dubai, Maria also directs Women In Tech Dubai, where she drives community growth, mentorship, and strategic partnerships to empower women in the region’s tech ecosystem. With a 4.0 B.Sc. in Computer Science and a track record of improving legacy codebases and operational resilience, she blends rigorous technical craft with community leadership and a clear focus on measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
High School, Business/Commerce, General, 94.59%, High School, Business/Commerce, General, 94.59% at Our Own English High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, GPA 4.0, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, GPA 4.0 at Murdoch University
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (8)
error-handling10
c-language10
sqlite10
cprogramming-language10
sql10
database-design10
testing9
system-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:25 releases, 7 reviews, 11 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily contributed to the back-end logic and database interactions within the `bedrock` project. Their work involved modifying and improving the error handling for job processing, specifically related to updating retry information. They also added tests to validate the behavior of jobs with invalid configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to manage database constraints and created a helper function to handle errors. This suggests a focus on improving the reliability and robustness of the job processing system and database interactions.
distributed-databasefailoverreplicationwan
Women-In-Tech-Dubai/WiT-Dubai-Study-Sessions
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Collection of solutions for the leetCode problems we solve during our weekly online study group.
Contributions:1 review, 32 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
solveleetcodeproblemsleetcode-solutionsstudy-group
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