hello, my name is
Sofia Vaz Sousa.
I build things with code.
I’m software developer with a 12-year background in healthcare that transitioned into tech. Currently, I'm building human-centered products within e-health.
About
Hello! I'm Sofia, a software developer with a 12-year background in healthcare, having worked previously as a nurse.
Growing up surrounded by MS-DOS and command lines, programming has always been a part of my life - anything from loading my favourite games through MS-DOS when I was 5 years old to adding sparkly widgets with HTML and CSS to my blog when I was a teenager - so transitioning from nursing to software development was just a natural step for me, driven by my passion of problem-solving and making people’s lives easier through software.
This transition from healthcare allows me to seamlessly integrate skills honed from my previous career on my approach to software development and project leadership.
On my free time, I'm also an avid VR games player. :)
Some of the technologies I've been working with lately:
- Typescript
- Javascript (ES6+)
- React
- Next.js
- Styled Components
- Ruby on Rails (currently learning)
Experience
Chorus AB
April 2021 - present
Software Developer
Delivering high-quality, scalable production code for a diverse array of projects within e-health, providing valuable clinical insights from my clinical experience into system's architecture and user flows and responsible for project leadership within a team through close collaboration in an agile environment.
Karolinska University Hospital
October 2016 - April 2021
Clinical Nurse Specialist / Pain management nurse
Specialist pain management nurse within recovery room. Responsible from postoperative care/srecovery of patients undergoing major surgery and follow-up and support to nursing teams with patients requiring specialist pain management therapy (i.e. epidural analgesia) after major surgery.
Guy's and St.Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
April 2015 - April 2016
Clinical Nurse Specialist in intravascular access
Responsible for auditing and quality improvement on venous access across the Trust. Support and educate nursing teams across the Trust regarding the care and management of peripheral and central access devices.
St.George's Healthcare NHS Trust
April 2013 - April 2015
Specialist Neonatal Nurse
Responsible for providing care to neonatal patients across intensive care, high dependency care and special care.
Projects
Most of these projects are hobby projects or from the Technigo Web development bootcamp, professional projects are not included.
Pokémon Explorer
- Frontend
- Next.js
- React
- Typescript
- CSS-in-JS
Heartburn checker
- Frontend
- React
- Typescript
- CSS-in-JS
Time Capsule
- Fullstack
- React
- Redux
- JavaScript
- REST API
- CSS-in-JS
- Node.js
Vapour
- Fullstack
- React
- JavaScript
- REST API
- CSS-in-JS
- Node.js
- Express