MIRELA MEI
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FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
UNTIL THEY BECOME SOFTWARE.

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
EVENT-DRIVEN SERVICES
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

Software engineer working across backend and distributed systems — event-driven services, production incidents, systems that hold up under real conditions. Off the clock: film, music, photography, and a quiet obsession with how the creative and the technical connect.

What I actually want to build is technology that helps people create, discover, and express themselves — tools that give that instinct more room instead of replacing it. I think about this less like a product problem and more like a psychological one: the mind doesn't organize what it loves by category, it organizes by feeling, by resemblance, by some private logic that only makes sense in hindsight. You don't remember a film because of its genre. You remember it because it left something in you that a completely unrelated photograph, years later, quietly reopens. Most technology treats that kind of association as noise — something to clean up into tags and genres and tidy metadata. I think it's actually the signal. The interesting problem isn't sorting creative work into categories nobody asked for; it's building something that can follow a connection the way a mind actually would — sideways, half-consciously, toward something you didn't know you were looking for until you recognized it. That recognition is the part I'm chasing: the small, slightly uncanny feeling of being understood by something before you've fully understood it yourself.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER B.SC. INFORMATION SYSTEMS — USP JAVA / CLOJURE / KAFKA / SQL
2023–PRESENT
NUBANK — SOFTWARE ENGINEER I → II

Own backend services end-to-end on a credit and lending platform — a distributed, event-driven system spanning several Latin American markets. Root-causing production incidents nobody else could reproduce, replacing regulator-facing manual work with pipelines nobody has to babysit, and using AI agents as a discovery partner to ramp into codebases I didn't write, fast enough to catch bugs before they ship.

2021–2023
ERICSSON INOVAÇÃO — INTERN → PROGRAMMER

Started writing backend components in Java and Spring Boot for a telecom engineering team; left as a full programmer, having built the habit of writing tests worth trusting and code worth maintaining.

SAY HELLO.

Software engineer. Also into art, film, music, photography, and psychology — still looking for where they meet.