about me
I'm a Computer Engineering student with 2+ years of QA experience at a US SaaS company, now moving into backend development.
QA is what I'm bringing with me, not what I'm leaving behind. I know how systems break, how to test them until they do, and what makes code hold up in production. One of the internal tools I built there cut a recurring 10-hour manual process down to under an hour, and I built a monitoring system that runs daily against our largest client's platform.
Now I'm building instead of testing. CulturalExchange is a REST API I designed and built end to end — data model, authentication, business rules — for a problem I lived through: youth exchange opportunities scattered as PDFs across WhatsApp groups.
I'm looking for backend roles, and I'm moving to Trento, Italy in September for an exchange semester.
stack
- Python
- FastAPI
- SQL
- Git
- CI/CD
experience
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Quality Assurance Engineer
apr 2024 — jun 2026TestBox — Remote (United States)
QA Tester → Associate QA Engineer → Associate Data Engineer
- Designed and built an internal tool that automated reading and verifying components of a web application, cutting a manual process from roughly 10 hours to 1 hour.
- Built an automated monitoring system running daily against the largest client's platform — collecting end-to-end metrics, detecting out-of-range values, and firing alerts, making incident detection proactive rather than reactive.
- Integrated automated runs into CI/CD pipelines, supporting faster and more reliable deploy cycles.
education
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BSc in Computer Engineering
oct 2023 — dec 2028Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS)
also
- EletroQuad — competition team building a drone from scratch; I work across hardware and software on the control system, focused on autonomous flight.
- LEO Club, Lions Clubs International — 7 years volunteering, designing and facilitating training sessions for groups of up to 70 people.
projects
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CulturalExchange
Python · FastAPI · SQLModel · SQLite
Youth exchange opportunities were being shared as loose PDFs in WhatsApp groups — no way to search by country, filter by date, or apply. I built the API that structures it: relational data model, JWT/OAuth2 authentication, role- and ownership-based authorization, full CRUD, combinable search filters, and auto-generated Swagger docs.
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cache-simulator
Python · Computer architecture
Cache memory simulator with configurable mapping and replacement policies, documented in scientific-paper format with experimental results.
View on GitHub →
contact
Open to backend engineering roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.
- AvailabilityBased in Brazil (UTC−3) until September 2026, then Trento, Italy (UTC+2) for an exchange semester. Open to remote roles worldwide (available as a contractor) and to internships in Europe.
- Emailarsegoyasmim@gmail.com
- LinkedInin/yasmimarsego
- GitHubYasmimAr
- LanguagesPortuguese (native), English (professional)