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Cinthia has spent her career in technical environments, often as one of very few women in the room. In this post, she reflects on what it took to find her voice, and why learning to ask the right questions changed everything.

I didn’t start my career in tech. In fact, if you’d met me when I was filling out my university applications in Portugal, you probably wouldn’t have guessed I’d end up as a Head of Engineering in London. From MySpace to “real life” My first taste of tech wasn’t in a classroom or a computer…

FED Day 2025 brought together our frontend engineers for a full day of talks, workshops, and collaboration. Here are the highlights.

It’s an inescapable fact that any technology company will eventually have to deal with legacy code.

Systems naturally age over time, and often become more difficult to change or understand. They may have business logic becoming tangled with implementation details in a sprawling monolithic codebase, or may become stuck on older versions of languages or frameworks. Sometimes we can live with the risks for internal-only tools, but what about for external, revenue-generating applications?