My name is Lewaa Bahmad and I am a Software Engineer committed to creating web experiences that are user-friendly and delightfully intuitive. I believe in being quick to market, functional deliverables, and user-led iterative improvements.
A significant portion of my career has been anchored around the Ruby on Rails framework and its ecosystem, allowing me to deeply appreciate and master its capabilities. I am lethal across the stack and capable of rapid product development.
While I am most proficient in HTML, Ruby, SQL, and JavaScript I have always adopted new technologies with gusto. My strength lies in understanding complex business needs and translating them into effective, practical tech solutions. I value clarity, efficiency, and robustness in every codebase I contribute to.
I currently reside in Chattanooga, TN, but my professional collaborations have spanned across various geographical boundaries. I am currently open to both remote opportunities and roles that involve some travel.
Skills: What I Excel At...
In Web Application Development:
- Designing and building responsive web applications, with a focus on simplicity and user experience.
- Proven track record of delivering systems that efficiently produce or handle assets worth tens of millions.
- Extensive experience in crafting elegant, scalable, open to change monoliths as well as robust, composable microservices.
- Leading client-side projects that ensure seamless user interactions and empirically-measured performance.
In Technical Leadership:
- Seeing the person behind the feature, whether that is another developer or a user, and empathizing with their needs and perspective to assure their success.
- Championing fellow developers and working collaboratively to establish code and team best practices.
- Providing thorough, unbiased, pragmatic code review.
- Evangelizing tests and and user needs to drive development.
Experience
In my 8 years of professional experience, I've worked on some incredible teams and helped build delightful, elegant, robust, and in-demand solutions to technical challenges. Here are some examples spanning my career across industries:
Senior Software Engineer @ Allied World Reinsurance Company
- Founding developer of team that built an application to manage 1.7 billion in reinsurance contracts.
- Committed to and maintained 100% code coverage implementing best practices across testing, internationalization, styling, and continious deployment.
- Delivered working features that were demoed to key company stakeholders every Agile sprint.
- Utilized utility based styling with Tailwind, ActiveComponent, and unobstrusive JavaScript using Stimulus JS.
Software Engineer II @ Ellevest
- Core member of the Financial Operations team building and maintaining financial systems that power the asset allocation and investments of clients totalling tens of millions of dollars.
- Critical contributor of the company effort to publish iOS application - built a native bridge between our React Native app and the native Objective C ecosystem to enable user onboarding and linkage of user bank accounts to investment accounts.
Software Engineer @ Give Lively
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo- Drove the development of the organization's primary donations platform.
- Advocated and led React-based initiatives on the client side, enriching user experience.
- Instrumental in the strategic shift towards a microservices architecture, ensuring system scalability and manageability.
Software Engineer @ XO Group Inc.
- Contributed to development and distribution of cutting-edge ad technologies and libraries, ensuring seamless media integration across the company's digital media assets.
- Collaborated on high-value media ventures, each with budgets running into millions.
- Orchestrated the development cycle of comprehensive Ruby on Rails applications, right from ideation to deployment, always emphasizing infrastructure efficiency and robustness.
About Me
Born in New York City and having my roots in Lebanese heritage, I’ve always been at the crossroads of diverse cultures and ideas. This has not only enriched my personal life but also deeply influenced my professional journey, enabling me to approach problems with a unique perspective.
Outside of the digital realm, my passions extend to mechanics – I’m in the process of earning my Automotive Service Excellence certifications. My interests also meander through the realms of psychology, dance, and music – each adding a unique flavor to my life and indirectly influencing my professional decisions.