Maria Bermudes is a Senior Database Administrator and Database Healer who has been working with database technologies within the commercial sector for over 26 years. Her experience primarily comes from working as a Production DBA & Data Architect within the city of London, UK, for a wide range of different organizations.

She also spent 12 years successfully running her own database support consultancy, providing DBA, data architecture and data engineering services to a variety of organizations ranging from corporate Blue chip to Tech/Data companies to Nonprofits.

Maria is a qualified SQLDBA and Enterprise Architect.

Hailing from Southeast Africa and Portugal, Maria‘s diverse background informs her work both in technology and in life. She is a natural communicator and loves to teach and share her stories both within the tech space and beyond, and is an advocate for diversity within technology.

In her free time, Maria loves to make art, music, and travel the world.
She’s currently writing a book about The Life Story of her Mozambican-Portuguese grandmothers.