Pooja Saxena
Software Engineer at Informed K12
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolPooja Saxena is a detail-oriented software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading frontend transformations. She has driven greenfield projects, led a frontend guild and component library efforts, and migrated legacy codebases to modern stacks while mentoring new hires and interns. Comfortable in both startup and product environments, she pairs technical problem-solving (React, microservices, AWS Lambdas) with people-focused practices like pair programming, code reviews, and structured onboarding. A Northwestern Applied Mathematics and Chemical Engineering graduate, she also brings analytical rigor from earlier lab and systems-engineering work that led to automation saving hundreds of hours. Based in the Chicago area, Pooja consistently blends cross-team collaboration with pragmatic engineering to deliver scalable, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, graduated Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, graduated Summa Cum Laude at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (7)
graphql1
stripe1
rails1
refactoring1
react1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eecs394-fall15/todo
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:17 PRs, 66 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 3 months
pooja335/Sample-Code
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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