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Mariana Silva is a Senior Software Engineer passionate about making technology more accessible and helping people transition into successful careers in software engineering. With extensive experience designing, building, and delivering scalable software solutions, she combines deep technical expertise with a commitment to mentoring and education.

Throughout her career, Mariana has recognized that one of the biggest barriers to entering software engineering isn’t just learning to code—it’s understanding how to think like an engineer, solve real-world problems, and navigate the expectations of the industry. She is dedicated to bridging that gap by breaking down complex technical concepts into practical, approachable lessons that anyone can understand, regardless of their background.

Whether working with career changers, self-taught developers, students, or professionals from non-technical fields, Mariana focuses on helping individuals develop the skills, confidence, and engineering mindset needed to thrive in today’s technology landscape. Her guidance extends beyond programming languages and frameworks, emphasizing software design principles, debugging strategies, system thinking, collaboration, best practices, and the day-to-day realities of working on engineering teams.

Mariana believes that great software engineers are built through curiosity, continuous learning, and hands-on experience. She empowers aspiring engineers to move beyond tutorials by building real projects, developing problem-solving abilities, and creating portfolios that demonstrate their capabilities to employers.

Her mission is to remove the intimidation often associated with technology and create clear, practical pathways for people from all backgrounds to break into software engineering. By combining mentorship, technical education, and real-world industry insights, Mariana is helping shape the next generation of engineers—making the journey into tech more inclusive, achievable, and rewarding for everyone.

Radka Hassaine is the Co-Founder of British Blueprint Skills Institute and an experienced tech recruiter with a passion for helping individuals transform their lives through careers in technology. She leads student recruitment, business operations, and strategic growth initiatives while working closely with aspiring tech professionals to help them achieve their career goals.

Driven by a belief that talent should never be limited by background or previous experience, Radka is committed to creating opportunities and supporting students on their journey towards rewarding careers in the technology sector.

Ramyasri is the head of software engineering of British Blueprint Skills Institute and a highly experienced Software Engineer with over 7 years of professional experience designing, developing, and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing software solutions. She has a strong technical background spanning backend engineering, frontend development, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps, allowing her to contribute across the full software development lifecycle.

Her core backend expertise includes Python and Golang, where she has built robust APIs, microservices, distributed systems, automation solutions, and business-critical applications. She has extensive experience designing clean and maintainable architectures, integrating third-party services, working with databases, improving application performance, and developing reliable systems capable of operating at scale.

Alongside her backend expertise, Ramyasri has strong frontend development experience using React and TypeScript, enabling her to build modern, responsive, and user-focused web applications. Her full-stack capabilities allow her to work effectively across engineering teams and understand how frontend applications, backend services, APIs, infrastructure, and data layers interact as a complete system.

Ramyasri also has significant DevOps and cloud engineering experience, including CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, infrastructure automation, deployment processes, monitoring, and production support. She is comfortable working with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, and major cloud platforms, helping teams improve deployment reliability, scalability, security, and development efficiency.

With more than seven years in software engineering, she has developed strong experience in system design, software architecture, microservices, REST APIs, cloud-native development, automated testing, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and engineering best practices.

At senior and lead level, Ramyasri is also experienced in taking ownership of technical delivery, translating business requirements into practical engineering solutions, supporting architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, reviewing code, resolving complex technical challenges, and collaborating with product managers, designers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders.

Her combination of Python, Golang, React, TypeScript, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and software architecture expertise makes her a versatile engineer capable of leading projects from initial design and development through to deployment and production.

Core Technical Skills: Python • Golang • React • TypeScript • JavaScript • REST APIs • Microservices • System Design • Software Architecture • DevOps • CI/CD • Docker • Kubernetes • Terraform • Cloud Infrastructure • Databases • Automated Testing • Git • Agile Development • Production Support • Technical Leadership