Ayla Ahmed
Frontend Developer at Sassafras Tech Collective
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAyla Ahmed is a frontend developer and human-centered design researcher with 12 years of experience translating qualitative insight into polished, usable interfaces. With a PhD in Personal Health Informatics and a track record of peer-reviewed publications, she blends rigorous user research—ethnography, interviews, and user testing—with hands-on engineering in Vue.js, NativeScript, Android, d3.js and data visualization tools. She has led collaborative open-source projects and built novel visualizations for health apps, pairing a refined aesthetic sensibility (InDesign, XD) with quantitative analysis in R, MATLAB and Tableau. Based in the New York City area, Ayla bridges academia and industry, bringing research-grade methods to product teams while advocating for diversity and equity in computing. An unexpected strength is her ability to shepherd projects end-to-end—from conceptual fieldwork to deployed UI—ensuring designs are both evidence-based and production-ready.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Personal Health Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Personal Health Informatics at Northeastern University
English, Spanish, Arabic
Github Skills (41)
data-collection9
web-application9
semantic8
testing7
javascript7
graphic7
typescript7
barrage7
vue7
mobile6
ui-components6
vuetify5
vue-component5
material-design5
vuejs35
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
odonnel-p/ahmed-odonnel-csfinal
Nov 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 4 years 7 months
ozzmotic/project-eva
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:52 commits in 3 months
gamegame-developmentunityspace-shootershooter
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