Clara Andrew-wani
Senior Software Engineer at World Wide Technology
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolClara Andrew-wani is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience designing and delivering scalable, end-to-end systems across healthcare, research, and open-source platforms. She blends strong backend expertise—in PHP, Go, Python, and database design—with full-stack work in React, Vue, and Django to ship high-performance, user-focused products for large audiences. Her contributions to the core MediaWiki backend (including revision handling and schema work) and to Wikimedia and Envoy projects show comfort operating on critical, widely used systems. At companies like Color and WikiTeq she has driven cross-functional teams to deliver prototypes that secured funding and production services used by hundreds of thousands. Based in Detroit, she pairs a scientific training in biochemistry and genomics with practical engineering chops, and outside of work she’s often found reading or sipping tea while catching up on a new series.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Mobile Web Specialist , Nanodegree Mobile Web Specialist at UdacityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State UniversityMaster of Business and Science (MBS) Biotechnology and Genomics, Master of Business and Science (MBS) Biotechnology and Genomics at Rutgers University
English, sudanese arabic
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Github Skills (9)
mediawiki10
php10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
schema-design9
mysql8
wikipedia7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
May 2019 - Sep 2020
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Clara primarily contributed to the core MediaWiki software's backend functionality, focusing on installer and revision handling. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of PHP, addressing extension dependencies, and modifying installer options. The user also worked on database schema-related tasks, implementing MCR (Media Content Repository) aware database schema for revisions. The contributions demonstrate an ability to work on critical parts of the software involving database interactions.
wikimediaphpwikipediacollaborative-editingruns
clarakosi/envoy
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 months
golangscalabilitygossipproxyscale
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