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PALOMA CARDOZO

Lawyer by training. Developer by choice. Researcher at heart.

Criminal judge turned full-stack developer. I bring 10 years of structured legal reasoning, risk analysis, and evidence evaluation to every line of code I write.

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Who I am

I'm a criminal lawyer who codes. For over a decade, I worked in Colombia's judiciary: first as a legal officer, then as a judge conducting criminal trials, evaluating complex evidence, and writing rulings with real consequences for real people.

That work trains you to reason under pressure, spot gaps in logic, and make defensible decisions with incomplete data. Those are the same skills I bring to software.

Since relocating to Denmark, I've built deliberately: front-end development โ†’ data analytics โ†’ now backend web development at Hack Your Future. I use AI daily as a working tool: prompting, evaluating outputs, integrating it into workflows, and understanding its limits. My cybersecurity studies in GRC, GDPR, and threat assessment add the risk-thinking layer that comes naturally from a legal background.

I won't pretend I know everything about tech. I'm still early in a vast field. But that's exactly the point: I'm not drifting in. I'm going wide and deep, across web development, data, and cybersecurity, with intention, because I believe technology should serve people, and the people who build it should understand the systems it operates in. That gap between those who understand and those who manage? I'm closing it, deliberately, one layer at a time.

I'm looking for roles at the intersection of law, data, and technology, where understanding compliance isn't separate from building the system, and where the person who can read a regulation is also the one writing the API.


๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ My Learning Roadmap

roadmap.sh


๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Tech Stack

Web Development HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript React Node.js

Data & Analytics Python SQL Power BI Excel

Security & Compliance GDPR GRC PowerShell

Tools Git GitHub VS Code


๐Ÿš€ Projects

Frog Hunter โ€” Memory Card Game Full-stack JavaScript ยท Hack Your Future ยท 2025 Browser-based memory card game with three difficulty levels, a countdown timer, and state-based win/loss logic. Deployed full-stack on Render.

Employee Insights โ€” Data Analytics ReDI School ยท Kaggle Dataset ยท 2025 Cleaned and analyzed a large employee salary dataset. Built Power BI dashboards with KPI indicators; designed Python scripts for data transformation with a focus on responsible handling of sensitive data.


๐ŸŽ“ Currently Studying

Program Institution Year
Web Development (Backend) Hack Your Future, Denmark 2025 โ€“ Present
Cybersecurity Fundamentals ReDI School of Digital Integration 2026 โ€“ Present
Cybersecurity Foundations: GRC LinkedIn Learning 2026
Introduction to the Threat Landscape 3.0 Fortinet Training Institute 2025
Cybersecurity Fundamentals IBM SkillsBuild 2025
Learning GDPR LinkedIn Learning 2025
Data Analytics Program ReDI School of Digital Integration 2025

โš–๏ธ Where I Come From

10+ years in Colombia's judiciary: Legal officer โ†’ Judge: conducting criminal trials, authoring rulings, and coordinating across prosecutors, defense attorneys, and public institutions with competing interests.

Since moving to Denmark (2023): Support worker at Kรธbenhavns Kommune, researcher at Transparency International (co-authored Korruption i Danmark 2000โ€“2024), and Volunteer Project Coordinator at AXIS NGO.


๐ŸŒ Languages

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish (native) ย |ย  ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English (fluent) ย |ย  ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Portuguese (fluent) ย |ย  ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Danish (PD3)


๐Ÿ“ Rรธdovre, Denmark ย ยทย  Open to opportunities in legal tech, data, and cybersecurity


"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." โ€” Archibald Putt, Putt's Law (1981)

I'm working on being the exception.

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