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Gabriela Schlemper
Based in Bray, Ireland (EU) · Italian citizenship, no sponsorship needed in Europe · remote or on-site
I document engineering decisions instead of listing technologies.
Every experience in this repository answers one question: “What evidence does this give about the engineer I am?”
career journey
2025 – Present
Dynamox
Learning distributed systems and software architecture
←
2024 – 2025
AQTech
Learning frontend engineering
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2021 – 2024
Freelance
Learning professional software development
highlighted case studies
all 11 →Designing a single computation path for a cross-service metric
Two services independently calculated the same customer-facing metric, causing inconsistent data. I redesigned the architecture so only one service owned the calculation while every other service simply signaled stale data.
impact: Removed race conditions · Simplified architecture · Improved customer trust
Introducing a Design System where none existed
Identified the absence of frontend standards, proposed a Design System, built it from scratch and taught the team how to adopt it.
impact: Standardized frontend development · Reduced duplicated components · Became frontend reference
Building a hierarchical selector instead of taking a dependency
Needed a tree selector the UI library didn't provide. Chose to build a reusable abstraction instead of introducing another dependency.
impact: Reusable abstraction adopted across the app · Zero new dependencies · Full control over performance and UX
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“The goal isn't to collect technologies. The goal is to understand how to make good engineering decisions.”