Summary
Hewah Bahrami is a Senior Backend Engineer based in New York with six years of experience building scalable, highly available platforms for fast-moving product teams. She specializes in backend and data systems using Python and modern databases (Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB) and brings strong observability and DevOps skills with Grafana, Datadog, Docker and Terraform. Her recent work includes architecting partitioned storage and retrieval for voice-recording systems to improve availability and cost-efficiency, and designing containerized order-packing services that streamlined operations and increased retention through personalized subscription logic. Comfortable across the full stack, Hewah pairs hands-on implementation with cross-functional collaboration and mentoring, having interviewed and grown teams while improving end-to-end performance. A Hack Reactor alum with an economics background from Baruch, she combines product sensitivity and data-driven tradeoffs to deliver pragmatic, production-ready systems.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Baruch College
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack Reactor