I am a U.S. citizen and freelance software engineer with a focus on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. I have leadership experience from my time at Amazon, where I mentored engineers and helped shape scalable software design. Currently, I contribute as an AI specialist at Outlier on a remote basis, and I apply this mix of hands-on coding and team mentorship to deliver high-quality solutions for complex problems.

Ahmaide Awawda

I am a U.S. citizen and freelance software engineer with a focus on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. I have leadership experience from my time at Amazon, where I mentored engineers and helped shape scalable software design. Currently, I contribute as an AI specialist at Outlier on a remote basis, and I apply this mix of hands-on coding and team mentorship to deliver high-quality solutions for complex problems.

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I am a U.S. citizen and freelance software engineer with a focus on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. I have leadership experience from my time at Amazon, where I mentored engineers and helped shape scalable software design.

Currently, I contribute as an AI specialist at Outlier on a remote basis, and I apply this mix of hands-on coding and team mentorship to deliver high-quality solutions for complex problems.

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Work Experience

AI Specialist at Outlier
May 1, 2025 - November 4, 2025
Remote freelance role evaluating AI/ML tasks for large-scale language model training, improving quality by 15%.
Area Manager II & Software Engineering Mentorship at Amazon
June 1, 2024 - November 4, 2025
Led over 60 associates, increasing process efficiency by 12% and meeting operational targets in the inbound department. Promoted to Area Manager II in under a year due to exceptional performance and impact on team collaboration. Contributed to system design and C++ projects as part of Amazon’s software engineering mentorship program.
Backend Engineer Intern at Exalt Technologies Ltd.
September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023
Developed a Spring Boot microservice with JWT authentication and Docker deployment, reducing setup errors by 20%. Implemented REST APIs with MySQL and MongoDB, achieving 98% unit test coverage for reliability. Collaborated on a Git-based team to deploy software with over 12 services.

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Science at University of New Mexico
August 1, 2024 - December 1, 2025
B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering at Birzeit University
September 1, 2019 - February 1, 2024

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