September 2024: Started the intensive 42 Piscine with a 1-month-old newborn and 2-year-old son at home.
While other students had 8+ hours daily, I coded between feedings, nap times, and 12-hour surgical shifts. I encountered multiple project failures along the way—but each retry taught me something new.
💻 View the Code Behind the Journey
// The journey that seemed impossible
const achievement = {
timeline: "11 months",
challenges: [
"👶 1-month newborn",
"🧒 2-year-old toddler",
"🏥 Full-time surgical nurse",
"😴 2-3 hours sleep/night",
"💻 42 School intensity"
],
result: "42 Porto Graduate",
failures: "Multiple project retries",
getInspiration() {
return "Failure is feedback—keep going!";
}
};✨ Proving that persistence and resilience overcome any obstacle ✨
| Year | Milestone | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 🏥 Surgical Nursing Career | Started as OR & Anesthesia nurse at ULSEDV |
| Sep 2024 | 👶 42 Piscine with Newborn | Began intensive coding with 1-month-old baby |
| Oct 2024 | 💻 42 Common Core | Started full curriculum while managing family & work |
| Sep 2025 | 🎓 42 Porto Graduate | Completed Common Core |
| Oct 2025 | 🚀 SEA:ME Automotive | Next chapter: Automotive Engineering program |
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3D Raycasting Engine
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Full-Stack Pong Platform
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HTTP Server from Scratch
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📂 Complete Project Portfolio (20+ Projects)
| Project | Score | Skills | Complexity |
|---|---|---|---|
| minishell | 99/100 |
Shell implementation, process management | 🔴 High |
| cub3D | 125/100 |
3D graphics, raycasting, memory management | 🔴 High |
| webserv | 100/100 |
HTTP protocol, concurrency, parsing | 🔴 High |
| ft_transcendence | 110/100 |
Full-stack, WebSockets, real-time | 🔴 High |
| Inception | 100/100 |
Docker, DevOps, containers | 🟡 Medium |
| Philosophers | 100/100 |
Threading, synchronization | 🟡 Medium |
| push_swap | 100/100 |
Algorithm optimization, sorting | 🟡 Medium |
| so_long | 115/100 |
2D game development | 🟡 Medium |
| minitalk | 116/100 |
UNIX signals, IPC | 🟡 Medium |
| ft_printf | 100/100 |
Variadic functions, formatted output | 🟡 Medium |
| get_next_line | 125/100 |
File I/O, buffer management | 🟡 Medium |
| libft | 125/100 |
C standard library implementation | 🟢 Basic |
| Born2beroot | 106/100 |
System administration | 🟢 Basic |
| NetPractice | 100/100 |
Network configuration, TCP/IP | 🟢 Basic |
| CPP Modules 00-09 | 95-100/100 |
OOP, templates, STL | 🟡 Medium |
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Bridging Healthcare & Automotive Technology Fresh from graduating 42 Porto while balancing surgery and motherhood, I’m ready to apply my surgical precision and growth mindset to automotive engineering. Focus Areas:
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📍 Ovar, Portugal 🇵🇹 - 🎓 Status: 42 Porto Graduate - 🎯 Open to: HealthTech & Automotive roles - 🌟 Specialization: Safety-critical systems |