Aliya Merali
Senior Software Engineer at Thistle
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAliya Merali is a Senior Software Engineer in Denver with a decade of experience building scalable, auditable backend systems for high-growth products. She’s delivered mission-critical services that supported 40x user growth and managed major financial flows—such as a student loan repayment service handling $10M monthly and systems enabling $80M in annual reimbursements. Comfortable across Python and Ruby and experienced with serverless architectures and Infrastructure as Code on AWS, she pairs pragmatic engineering with product and architecture collaboration to automate complex manual processes. Her background spans hands-on engineering, program leadership, and education program development, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and people-first program management. Notably, she moved from running immersive training programs to shipping production financial systems, demonstrating strong adaptability and a focus on measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Applied Urban Science and Informatics, Master of Science (M.S.) Applied Urban Science and Informatics at New York UniversityBack End Engineering, Back End Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor of Science (BS) Physics Minor in Arabic Language, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics Minor in Arabic Language at The College of New JerseySemester Abroad Arabic Language and Culture, Semester Abroad Arabic Language and Culture at University of Jordan
Arabic
Github Skills (4)
ruby7
minecraft7
backend2
php2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aliyamerali/learn-co-sandbox
May 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:39 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 8 months
aliyamerali/enigma
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Turing Mod 1 Independent Project
Contributions:34 PRs, 26 pushes, 35 branches in 3 months
modindependentindependent-projectturing
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