Summary
Moktar Jama is a software engineer with nine years of experience building user-focused web applications and internal tools at companies including Meta, Compass, and Dealpath. He has a strong track record of improving performance and developer productivity—reducing load times, cutting API calls, and increasing test coverage while creating reusable component libraries and tooling adopted across teams. Moktar excels at front-end UX and full-stack features that scale for internal stakeholders, from modular drag-and-drop components to asynchronous processing that expanded capacity fourfold. Based in New York, he pairs a BA in History of Science from Yale with practical bootcamp training, bringing a curiosity-driven approach to novel problems and a knack for translating messy requirements into efficient, widely used solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA History of Science Medicine and Public Health, Bachelor of Arts - BA History of Science Medicine and Public Health at Yale University
App Academy
English, Japanese, Somali, Arabic