Melissa Silva is a skilled security engineer with experience at Fintual, Bending Spoons, and Evernote, where roles included Security Engineer Intern and Security Engineer I. Melissa also contributed as a visiting researcher at the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development, focusing on strong light-matter interaction in nanoscale organic cavities, and as a full stack developer for a FONDECYT project. Additionally, Melissa gained foundational experience as a data intern at Walmart Chile. Melissa holds an Engineer's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Universidad Mayor and earned a Certificate of Quantum Excellence in Quantum Computing from the 2021 Qiskit Global Summer School on Quantum Machine Learning.