Niaja Farve
Senior Engineering Manager at Forte LLC
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolNiaja Farve is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11+ years of hands-on software and research experience, currently leading engineering at Zilliant after recent leadership roles at Liscio and Fuzzy. She blends deep technical chops in Ruby on Rails, frontend development, and embedded systems with PhD-level research from MIT, where she built motors for a quadruped robot and studied wearables for behavior change. A founder of i-Trek, she has a track record of mentoring through research and entrepreneurship, and has applied robotics and AI in real-world settings including IBM Tokyo’s Pepper project. Known for turning academic innovation into production software, she pairs strong people leadership with a persistent curiosity—often discovered training for races or exploring new cities while listening to podcasts.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Morgan State University
Spanish, Japanese, English
Github Skills (45)
shopify10
merchant10
ecommerce10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
payment-processing10
payment10
spree10
adyen10
square10
balloon9
bootstrap-ui9
exchange8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nfarve/active_merchant
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 21 branches in 4 months
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
nfarve/MoveYourGlass
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:15 pushes in 3 months
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