Denielle Abaquita
Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenielle Abaquita is a software engineer at WhatsApp/Meta with nine years of experience specializing in iOS and full-stack development, currently based in Menlo Park. She has shipped payments features at scale—engineering a check balance payment on WhatsApp iOS used by over 20 million users in India—and improved testability and request/response handling across Payments. A strong communicator and collaborator, she regularly partners with product designers, client and server engineers, and emphasizes documentation and maintainable code. Her background includes modernizing legacy iOS codebases and automation (Objective-C, Swift, Appium/Java), plus hands-on bug fixes and third-party library migrations. A disciplined engineer and mentor, she pairs technical rigor with a passion for helping others and building pathways for underprivileged communities. She graduated magna cum laude in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida and remains open to mentoring students and early-career engineers.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Co-Valedictorian, 4.0/4.5, Co-Valedictorian, 4.0/4.5 at St. Petersburg Catholic High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.90 / Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.90 / Magna Cum Laude at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish, Cebuano
Github Skills (23)
react9
material-design8
material-ui8
javascript8
react-components8
appium-ios7
typescript7
mui6
ios-application5
appium5
linux4
desktop4
dates3
python3
electron3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dabaquita/UCF-Tower-Defense
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 154 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
CodePath-iOS-PlayDate/PlayDate
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
iOS application centered around helping pet owners find play dates for their pets!
Contributions:17 reviews, 50 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 month
ownerspetsswiftiosdates
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