Helen Gezahegn
Software Engineer at Wealthsimple
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHelen Gezahegn is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building user-focused web and data systems, now contributing to Wealthsimple’s efforts to make financial tools more accessible. She has shipped production features and design systems, standardized multi-asset order experiences, and built analytics backing products used by hundreds of thousands of customers during internships at Intuit. Helen pairs frontend and backend fluency (Java, JavaScript, Python) with ML experimentation—she created a 27K-sample Braille dataset and trained a 97% accurate recognizer—and a track record of pragmatic tooling like analytics dashboards and onboarding cheatsheets that became official training resources. A committed advocate for diversity and inclusion, she founded and led multiple programs sending 75+ underrepresented individuals to global tech conferences and served as Director of Technology for a BIPOC-focused nonprofit supporting vulnerable communities. After two years of nomadic travel post-internship, she returned energized to blend social-impact projects with product-driven engineering.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Major: Computer Science | Game Development Certificate, Bachelor of Science - BS, Major: Computer Science | Game Development Certificate at University of Alberta
English, French
Github Skills (45)
ice10
gatsbyjs10
styled-components9
ada9
elections9
firebase9
python8
semantic-ui8
javascript8
mongoose7
iteration7
gestures7
react7
api6
gatsby6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adas-team/ElectionsApp
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Ada's Elections
Contributions:3 reviews, 108 commits, 157 PRs in 1 year
adapythonwebapplicationelectionsfirebase
HelenGezahegn/ElectionsApp
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:55 pushes, 116 branches in 1 year
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