Elina Hamza
Senior Software Engineer at Recurrent Labs [Recurrent.org / Currents.fm]
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolElina Hamza is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lahore with seven years of experience building web-first applications and developer tooling. She brings full-stack expertise with notable open-source contributions to prominent Rust/Wasm projects like Yew and wasm-pack, where she implemented function-component macros and modernized build and dependency flows. At rustwasm/gloo she expanded web API wrappers and improved developer experience by adding CI/CD-driven website updates, showing a blend of front-end, backend and infrastructure skills. She has held leadership responsibilities such as Lead Frontend Developer and now drives product engineering at Recurrent Labs after impactful roles at Formbird and Ultima. Comfortable across Rust, WebAssembly and modern web stacks, she pairs pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for the latest technologies and developer ergonomics. Outside of work she signals a strong commitment to continuous learning and community collaboration through steady open-source involvement.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, ICS, Intermediate, ICS at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)
Github Skills (25)
dependency-management10
macros10
component-development10
webpages10
rust-wasm10
web-content10
front-end-development10
blazor-webassembly10
docusaurus10
rust10
webassembly10
package-management9
cicd9
jsx9
cli9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rustwasm/gloo
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
A modular toolkit for building fast, reliable Web applications and libraries with Rust and WASM
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 128 reviews, 77 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Elina primarily contributed to the development of the `gloo` toolkit, adding wrappers for web API functions like alert, confirm, and prompt. They also implemented wrappers for web storage APIs and requestAnimationFrame, expanding the toolkit's functionality. Furthermore, the user updated the website using Docusaurus and integrated CI/CD deploys and a blog, demonstrating front-end and infrastructure skills. These changes show a focus on improving the library's ease of use and developer experience.
web-applicationsrustasmjswebassemblyreliable
yewstack/yew
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Rust / Wasm framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1004 reviews, 104 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Elina primarily worked on implementing and refining a feature for generating function components within the Yew framework. Their contributions involved creating an attribute macro to facilitate the creation of functional components from functions, adding examples, and addressing various bug fixes and code improvements. They also addressed compiler warnings and error messages, improved formatting, and incorporated test cases to ensure the feature's correctness and usability. This focused effort significantly enhanced the framework's capabilities for building web applications with Rust and WebAssembly.
multithreadingconcurrencyemscriptenwebworkersrust
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