Summary
Taqwa Rushdan is a Software Engineer II based in Chicago with 9 years of professional experience and 5+ years focused on front-end engineering and design-driven interfaces. She has shipped production features for enterprise healthcare systems—deploying search, scheduling, custom maps, and fuzzy search to 50+ hospitals—and excels at blending strong visual UI sensibilities with modern stacks like React, TypeScript, and Storybook. Her background in building component libraries and accessibility improvements at an agency level demonstrates an ability to standardize design systems across cross-functional teams. Equally comfortable diving into server-side rendering and performance profiling as she is implementing drag-and-drop UX, she brings a pragmatic full-stack curiosity to front-end problems. Prior roles across nonprofits, policy, and international development reveal a rare mix of technical craft and cross-cultural program experience that informs empathetic product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at The George Washington University
The University of Maryland, College Park
Arabic, English, Spanish