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.
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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.
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→ Enabled safe deletion of 10k+ stale records without downtime, while introducing audit trails for compliance-critical teams.
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.
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→ Scoped a full-stack intern project, led async pair programming, and helped secure a return offer while closing 5+ complex tickets.
Co-designed a new hire onboarding program for engineers.
→ Reduced onboarding time by 40% and authored internal docs still used across teams.
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→ Reduced onboarding time by 40% and authored internal docs still used across teams.
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.
→ Led stakeholder meetings and UAT at Cox.
→ Helped 500+ students access career development resources at GSU.
What I’ve Said
01 02 03 04Judged at The Posse Foundation's finalist round, centering early-career BIPOC Students.