Milena Carecho is a software engineer with seven years of experience who blends strong fundamentals from 42 São Paulo and UFABC with hands-on work in functional programming and distributed microservices at Nubank. She began her career teaching programming to children, which honed her ability to explain complex concepts simply and fostered a user-focused mindset. At Nubank she works on a global platform team, collaborating across countries in English and Spanish to build scalable systems. Her side projects, like a 30-day CSS challenge, reveal a keen interest in front-end polish and interactive design alongside backend engineering. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, she combines rigorous algorithmic training with practical production experience in high-scale finance.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at 42
Bacharelado, Bacharelado at Universidade Federal do ABC - UFABC
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
Desafio criar 30 mini projetos utilizando HTML e CSS em 30 dias
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:155 commits, 1 PR, 80 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Milena primarily contributed to the visual design and interactive elements of a series of CSS-based projects. They created HTML and CSS files for various challenges, ranging from layered social media icons to animated loading spinners, text effects, and interactive buttons. Each commit focuses on a specific design element or effect, demonstrating a focus on front-end development and CSS implementation.
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