Fellow:Macarena Oyague Santolalla
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Bio
Macarena is a Computer Science graduate from Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología. She started studying Engineering, but she fell in love with coding during the first year's introductory courses. Although she really liked what she would be capable of doing studying CS, she thought it was a major for more intelligent people. That is the reason why she explored a little more by doing extracurricular and interdisciplinary activities, in order to meet new people and learn about their experiences. Doing so, she got a realization that she was all the time around a computational way of thinking to solve problems, and also around software systems to help with that. She changed her major to CS in her 3rd year and she is happy with the decision.
She is an optimistic person and she is always with a smile on her face trying to help every person that crosses paths with her. It began when she realized that, although some people had hurt your confidence, there will be someone who can help you to get it back and trust in yourself. She feels lucky because she learned from amazing people from her university different points of view to create her own. She admires how these people lead and wants to help people gain their confidence in the positive way that she could do it, learning that each idea is important to create a final solution and to consider each point of view, despite it not matching with her own.
Since the beginning of her journey, Macarena has been enjoying every meeting with new faces to learn something about them. Her career interests are related to Algorithms and Data Structures, but she also has a strong passion for Theoretical Computer Science and Computational Linguistics. She aspires to do a Masters degree in that areas.
University Student Life
Macarena has done different extracurricular activities around social work, science and innovation. If you need help with something similar or you want to have a conversation about any of them, she will be there for you, you only need to send a message!
2018
- Academic mentor of Math
- Teacher Assistant in the area of Science
2019
- AIESEC member: in the area of Incoming Global Volunteers
- SpinOut member: attended design thinking workshops and a workshop on innovation methodologies
- Teacher Assistant in the course Innovation and Development of Products
- Global Volunteer in Blumenau, Brasil with AIESEC: teacher of environmental awareness workshops
- Member of the TEDxUTEC team
2020
- Peer mentor: gave advice to freshmen students
- Student council member
2021
- IncUVa: incubation summer program of UTEC Ventures to learn to develop a startup
- IEEE Computer Society member and vice chair of UTEC
2022
- UIF: created a scavenger hunt for freshmen, a career fair (experiences around industry, startup, research) and an unconference
Graduate Life
After graduating, Macarena has continued to pursue her passion for computer science and helping others. She remains active in the tech community and is applying her skills and knowledge in professional settings.
2023-2025
- SWE at Fitia: support the app via the backend services; created an internal tool to manage the creation of the database items; suggested new features for the product
2025
- SDE at Amazon: supported the creation of AWD in a new region and new country
- Socrates Member at Amazon: organized workshops about career development, Amazon culture and Amazon tools and frameworks
Social media profiles
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/macarena.oyague/
- GH: https://github.com/macarenaoyague
- LinkedIn: [1]
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