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Hi, I’m Aisha Aliyu, a full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience building production web apps and distributed systems. My strengths include JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, microservices, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and AWS/Docker/Kubernetes. I partner closely with Product and Design to turn requirements into shipped UI components and polished workflows, while writing robust tests and iterating quickly. I also mentor engineers, raise code quality through reviews and testing, and practice secure-by-default development to keep delivery reliable and maintainable.…Hi, I’m Aisha Aliyu, a full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience building production web apps and distributed systems. My strengths include JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, microservices, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and AWS/Docker/Kubernetes. I partner closely with Product and Design to turn requirements into shipped UI components and polished workflows, while writing robust tests and iterating quickly. I also mentor engineers, raise code quality through reviews and testing, and practice secure-by-default development to keep delivery reliable and maintainable.

Aisha Aliyu

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Web Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Aisha Aliyu, a full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience building production web apps and distributed systems. My strengths include JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, microservices, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and AWS/Docker/Kubernetes. I partner closely with Product and Design to turn requirements into shipped UI components and polished workflows, while writing robust tests and iterating quickly. I also mentor engineers, raise code quality through reviews and testing, and practice secure-by-default development to keep delivery reliable and maintainable.…Hi, I’m Aisha Aliyu, a full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience building production web apps and distributed systems. My strengths include JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, microservices, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and AWS/Docker/Kubernetes. I partner closely with Product and Design to turn requirements into shipped UI components and polished workflows, while writing robust tests and iterating quickly. I also mentor engineers, raise code quality through reviews and testing, and practice secure-by-default development to keep delivery reliable and maintainable.

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Hi, I’m Aisha Aliyu, a full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience building production web apps and distributed systems. My strengths include JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, microservices, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and AWS/Docker/Kubernetes.

I partner closely with Product and Design to turn requirements into shipped UI components and polished workflows, while writing robust tests and iterating quickly. I also mentor engineers, raise code quality through reviews and testing, and practice secure-by-default development to keep delivery reliable and maintainable.

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Team Lead at Improving

July 1, 2023 - September 1, 2025

Architected and delivered Scala microservices for a high-throughput Postal Service platform; Owned production deployments and release health checks; Triaged and resolved production incidents using Grafana and Prometheus; Guided backlog refinement with BA/PO; Champion upgrades to secure dependencies and library hygiene; Led Cosmos DB data-model design and migration; Implemented authorization and authentication with SAML in Azure; Migrated UI components from Vue2 to Vue3; Served as interim team lead, driving delivery and communications.

Software Engineer at Improving

May 1, 2021 - June 1, 2023

Built and maintained backend services with Scala (Play) and Slick, integrated with PostgreSQL; Ingested and processed operational events by reading from Kafka and persisting normalized data sets; Developed UI components to support end-to-end feature delivery; Strengthened testing across service boundaries; Served as interim team lead; Recognized for reliable delivery and collaborative communication.

Software Engineer at IBM

July 1, 2017 - April 1, 2021

Re-architected Node.js services for MongoDB; Dockerized microservices on Kubernetes; Implemented authorization and authentication using OAuth; Built Angular features, reusable components, and Redux state management; Partnered with Product/UX on feasibility; Implemented unit tests with Mocha; Designed and implemented Node.js applications via Express; Patent granted for automatic content segmentation; Patent pending for ML-based blank-page detection.