Sanaa Syed
Senior Software Engineer at Rippling
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSanaa Syed is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience specializing in real-time data streaming and infrastructure, currently focused on event-driven systems using Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP. She has driven measurable operational improvements—redesigning Kafka topic lifecycle to speed up CRUD by 90%, reducing broker needs during peak events, and cutting deploy times and resource usage through cross-cluster discovery and algorithms to limit topics. Comfortable across the stack, Sanaa has rotated through roles from mobile and backend to data science and production engineering, bringing product-minded engineering to large-scale systems. An active mentor and speaker, she has coached over 100 women in STEM and presented at major conferences and hackathons since 2018. Beyond technical impact, she balances rigorous problem-solving with a growth mindset and an affinity for the outdoors, reflecting a practical, resilient approach to engineering and leadership.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Carleton UniversityMiddlefield Collegiate Institute
Urdu, English, French
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Github Skills (37)
design-tokens10
shopify10
cuelang10
typescript10
kubectl10
vscode-extension10
pods10
figma-plugin10
component-library10
yaml10
kubelet10
configurations10
react10
kubernetes9
kustomize9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sanaasy/sanaasy
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
sanaasy/first-website
May 2020 - Jul 2023
🚧 my personal website to track my accomplishments/act as a resume
Contributions:6 PRs, 34 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 2 months
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