Heba Waly

Software Engineer at Meta

London, England, United Kingdom
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Summary

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Heba Waly is a software engineer with a decade of professional experience, currently building systems at Meta from her base in London. She blends strong backend engineering chops with real-world open-source impact—contributing documentation and refactors to the core Git repo—and mentors through Google Summer of Code. Her background spans startups and enterprise roles (including Loyalty New Zealand and USY TECH) and a robotics nanodegree from Udacity, reflecting a curiosity for systems and embedded/robotics tooling beyond typical web stacks. Colleagues describe her as collaborative and eager to join smart, friendly teams; she also writes and shares technical insights on GitHub and Medium.
code10 years of coding experience
job7 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer and Systems Engineering, Very Good, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer and Systems Engineering, Very Good at Alexandria University
bookNanodegree, Robotics Software Engineer, Nanodegree, Robotics Software Engineer at Udacity
languagesEnglish, Arabic
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Github Skills (4)

c1710
c1110
documentation10
git10

Programming languages (1)

C

Github contributions (5)

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git/git

Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer
Contributions:31 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Heba primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Git source code documentation. Their contributions involved moving documentation from external files into the relevant header files (config.h, attr.h, pathspec.h, diff.h/diffcore.h, refs.h, ll-merge.h, remote.h/refspec.h, dir.h, revision.h, graph.h/graph.c, sha1-array.h, argv-array.h, cache.h, run-command.h, trace.h, submodule-config.h, credential.h, trace2.h, and parse-options.h), ensuring easier access for developers. This involved identifying and removing redundant documentation. The user also updated the advice API and refactored existing code.
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HebaWaly/git

Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository and all pull requests are ignored. Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Contributions:51 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
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Heba Waly - Software Engineer at Meta