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Hawa
Sylla

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

hmsylla25@gmail.com

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What I’m Building

01
Launching Season 2 of Muslimahs in Motion — a podcast sharing stories of Muslim women balancing faith and ambition, now with over 1,000 listens.
02
Developing DuVa, an AI-enhanced dua journal + discovery app.
03
Hosting Qahwa Collective — in-person and digital coworking for Muslim women builders, creators, and everything in between.
04
Creating Tayibah Town, a cozy pixel game with faith-centered mechanics.

Where I’ve Been

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Currently I'm a Backend Software Engineer at Manhattan Associates — building and maintaining enterprise-level forecasting tools 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 tickets.
→ Scoped a full-stack intern project, led async pair programming, and helped secure their return offer — all while closing 5+ complex tickets (AI-28992, AI-29766).
03
Co-designed a new hire onboarding program for engineers.
→ Reduced onboarding time by 40%, and authored internal docs now used by new devs across teams — improving clarity and confidence in ramp-up.
04
Interned at Cox Enterprises & Worked @ GSU Career Services.
→ At Cox: led 5+ stakeholder meetings + UAT for a SharePoint redesign.
→ At GSU: helped 500+ students access career development tools and resources.

What I’ve Said

01
Featured as a Future Icon of Tech on Women to Watch – Rewriting the Code for combining backend dev, podcasting, and faith-driven community work.↗
02
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↗
03
Spoke at Headstarter AI on navigating tech, Shared my career story, branding tips, and advice for early career engineers.
04
Judged at The Posse Foundation's finalist round, centering early-career BIPOC Students.

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