Sahar Bala
Software Engineer at ClassDojo
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSahar Bala is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building customer-facing web experiences and leading quality efforts across startups and scaling companies. She has progressed from customer support and QA leadership into full-stack engineering roles, recently joining ClassDojo after impactful frontend and cross‑team work at Eventbrite and Convoy. Sahar specializes in React and service-oriented architectures, pairing frontend ownership with backend familiarity (Python/Django) to ship embeddable checkout flows and reduce support load through thoughtful tooling. She values developer mentorship and process—having introduced cross-team agreements, run regular code labs, and onboarded peers internationally. Based in Seattle, she blends analytical rigor with creativity outside work as a runner, artist, and accomplished home cook. A lifelong learner with a growth mindset, she consistently turns empathy for users and support experience into more resilient, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A International Studies Middle Eastern Studies Peace and Conflict concentration, B.A International Studies Middle Eastern Studies Peace and Conflict concentration at University of San Francisco
French, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
javascript9
d3js7
svg7
react6
charts5
visualization5
estimate5
data-visualization5
rental5
charting4
composable3
backend1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
snazbala/personal-site
Oct 2018 - May 2023
my personal website saharbala.com
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
reactnextjstailwindcsstypescript
snazbala/rental-estimate
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Returns a monthly rental estimate for qualified homeowners
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 2 months
returnsrentalestimate
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