Athena Briana

Athena Briana

Experience

  1. Product Builder

    Inspira · Architecture Team

    Jan 2025–Present

    Remote, Brazil

    • Build the agent harness behind the company’s AI tools: the tool loop, context assembly, and orchestration every surface runs on.
    • Build deep research agents that plan multi-step investigations, fan out across sources in parallel, and return cited answers.
    • Owned the chat and agent product, from strategy and discovery through design and engineering.
    • Architect for depth and speed at once: parallel fan-out, caching, and staged model routing.
    • Drive down token cost by trimming context and routing each step to the cheapest capable model.
    • Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to turn user and business problems into technical solutions.
    • Tech stack: React, TypeScript, LLM APIs.
  2. Product Data Engineer

    Inspira · Product Data Team

    Aug 2025–Dec 2025

    Remote, Brazil

    • Built and structured BigQuery data models and pipelines to centralize product and user data and make it accessible across teams.
    • Developed optimized SQL transformations and analytical views, improving data reliability and query efficiency.
    • Designed event models, KPIs, and product metrics to measure activation, engagement, and growth.
    • Built dashboards that gave Product and Engineering teams visibility into product usage and user behavior.
    • Partnered with Product and Engineering to turn data into testable hypotheses and actionable insights, informing roadmap priorities and product iterations.
    • Tech stack: Python, SQL, BigQuery.
  3. Frontend Engineer

    Inspira · SaaS Team

    Jan 2022–Aug 2025

    Remote, Brazil

    • Owned frontend architecture and engineering standards across multiple products, establishing patterns for scalable and maintainable applications.
    • Led the design system migration and evolution, improving consistency across products and developer efficiency.
    • Built integrations between frontend applications and backend services using GraphQL and REST, improving type safety and data efficiency.
    • Implemented feature flags and experimentation infrastructure with Split.io to enable gradual releases and safer product iteration.
    • Built shared Node.js tooling and configuration libraries, standardizing development practices across teams.
    • Improved engineering workflows through CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and performance optimization.
    • Implemented product analytics and user behavior tracking with PostHog, GCP, and Looker to support data-informed product decisions.
    • Worked closely with Product, Design, and Analytics to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions and communicate engineering trade-offs.
    • Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL.
  4. Software Developer Intern

    Fundação Matias Machline

    Jan 2021–Dec 2021

    On-Site, Brazil

    • Built an educational app that gamified English learning called FluentLevel, as part of my Capstone Project and internship.
    • Owned the product end-to-end, from user research and UX design to full-stack development, testing, and launch.
    • Conducted interviews with students and teachers to understand learning needs and translate them into product features.
    • Presented the product to an audience of 500+ attendees at a regional technology fair, receiving recognition for innovation and product design.
    • Tech stack: React Native, TypeScript, Firebase.

Education

  1. Technical Degree, Information Technology

    Fundação Matias Machline, Brazil

    2018–2021