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Hawa
Sylla

Software Engineer. Podcaster. Builder. Creating sacred, useful things.

hms10dev@gmail.com

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What I’m Focused On

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Building DuVa — a dua journaling and discovery app centered on reflection, ritual, and spiritual continuity.
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Deepening my craft as a backend engineer, with a focus on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and building systems that age well.
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Building Café Ivoire — a small, intentional coffee cart project grounded in hospitality, logistics, and consistency.

Where I’ve Been

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Currently a Backend Software Engineer at Manhattan Associates — building and maintaining enterprise-scale forecasting systems using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.
01
Engineered async forecast summary cleanup logic to prevent system bloat.
→ Enabled safe deletion of 10k+ stale records without downtime, while introducing audit trails for compliance-critical teams.
02
Mentored a summer intern while actively contributing to sprint work.
→ Scoped a full-stack intern project, led async pair programming, and helped secure a return offer while closing 5+ complex tickets.
03
Co-designed a new hire onboarding program for engineers.
→ Reduced onboarding time by 40% and authored internal docs still used across teams.
04
Interned at Cox Enterprises and worked at GSU Career Services.
→ Led stakeholder meetings and UAT at Cox.
→ Helped 500+ students access career development resources at GSU.

What I’ve Said

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Featured as a Future Icon of Tech on Women to Watch – Rewriting the Code for combining backend dev, podcasting, and faith-driven community work.↗
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On Africans In Tech Podcast, I shared my story, my back-end developer journey, and how I built MiM to showcase muslim women who are building big things, preserve faith, and protect rest↗
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Spoke at Headstarter AI on navigating tech, Shared my career story, branding tips, and advice for early career engineers.
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Judged at The Posse Foundation's finalist round, centering early-career BIPOC Students.

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