Dalia Sawaya
Software Engineer at Root Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDalia Sawaya is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of professional experience and a strong background in consumer-focused product development. She spent three years on cross-functional Agile teams at Stitch Fix and now contributes at Root Inc., bringing practical expertise in delivering customer-centered features. Dalia combines hands-on engineering with a knack for teaching—she spent four years as a lead instructor at Flatiron School, translating complex concepts for new developers. Her career also includes unexpected detours in hospitality and public interest law, which sharpened her client empathy and operational discipline. Trained at Flatiron School and academically grounded at UC Berkeley and Berklee, she blends technical rigor with creative communication. Colleagues would describe her as collaborative, customer-obsessed, and skilled at turning ambiguous problems into reliable products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Political Economy of Industrialized Societies; Music, B.A. Political Economy of Industrialized Societies; Music at University of California, BerkeleyLick-Wilmerding High SchoolDiploma, Vocal Performance, Diploma, Vocal Performance at Berklee College of MusicSoftware Engineering/Web Development, Software Engineering/Web Development at Flatiron School
French, Arabic, English
Github Skills (20)
flatiron10
minimum7
sinatra5
javascript5
typescript4
layout3
fetch3
rails3
css3
ruby3
ajax2
js2
hide2
seek1
handlebars1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
d-d-d-dalia/jsdom-fetch-dog-ceo-challenge-v-000
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:275 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
learn-co-students/js-data-structures-objects-lab-v-000
Nov 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
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