We’re excited to welcome Madelene “Maddie” Campos to our team as an Integration Developer! Join us in learning more about the latest member of our growing BrightGauge team...
Unlike the majority of her colleagues here at BrightGauge, Maddie is not a Miami native! She hails from a suburb just west of downtown Chicago, called Glen Ellyn. While she called Chicago home for many years, she proudly wears her 100% Greek heritage as a badge of honor and would love to visit the motherland more often.
Though she’s a tech wizard now, Maddie didn’t start off that way. She earned a Bachelors in Flute Performance from the University of Illinois, which included one year abroad at the University of Manchester, and a Masters in Orchestral Studies from Roosevelt University, Chicago College of the Performing Arts. All of that education (and talent!) translated to a career as a flutist for many notable groups and musicians, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Hawaii Symphony, Jewel, Johnny Mathis, and Yo Yo Ma. Bonus: Maddie even landed a gig playing flute for a Windex commercial that ran nationally.
While Maddie did enjoy being a performance artist, it was not ideal when it came to having consistent work. So, in a quest for stability, Maddie began teaching herself how to code, attending about 3 meetups a week, until a Software Developer friend suggested she go to a coding “bootcamp” to dedicate 100% of her time to her new craft.
According to Maddie, “Chicago winters are the devil, so I decided to apply to Wyncode Academy, here in Miami!” Upon graduating from Wyncode, Maddie landed a job as a full time software developer, focusing on the backend which included building APIs from scratch. Most recently, she was a teaching assistant at Wyncode Academy, where she really enjoyed clarifying coding principles, as well as attempting to explain the ins and outs of Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, and helping others on their coding journey.
Joining BrightGauge
Maddie is excited to take her tech skills to the next level as an Integration Developer and is mostly eager to learn Python. Integrations are a really big part of what we do here at BrightGauge and Maddie is ready to take on the challenge of making sure they function properly within our own product. What really drew Maddie to BrightGauge is that it’s a company that encourages constant learning, work-life balance, productivity, and growth. In her words, “The environment is positive, which makes the day to day enjoyable!”.
When Maddie has free time, you can find her in a yoga or Zumba class, reading, hanging out at the beach, traveling, playing piano, or going on ‘podcast walks’ (walking by the bay, listening to her favorite podcasts)!