# Foqia Shahid

> Software Engineer - Analyst @ Blackrock

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/foqia

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ BlackRock
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States

### Quantitative Center Mentor @ Bryn Mawr College
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Pennsylvania, United States
- Led collaborative study sessions for quantitative topics in Computer Science, Mathematics and Data Science for more than 50 students
- Mentored and counseled Computer Science students to achieve an average grade boost from C to B+
- Tutored students in data structures and algorithm concepts, providing help with debugging code and exam preparation

### Web Manager @ Bryn Mawr College
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Pennsylvania, United States
- Designed multilingual webpage with articles in 11 different languages with framework in place to add more
- Improved multilingual capabilities of website using Polylang and Lingotek Translation plugins and updated UI with
online article submission that increased submission rates by 75% and cut down costs by more than 50%
- Maintained active documentation for the upkeep of webpage including technical tools used

### Software Engineer Intern @ BlackRock
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Developed solutions in a 3-engineer team to monitor and present system health of an ETF servicing platform by analyzing architecture of front-to-backend communication through API calls
- Built a configurable system which detects and provides error reporting on active services with 100% accuracy and reduces troubleshooting time from approx. 10 minutes to 15 seconds
- Designed and implemented a dynamic user interface to display system health information with live updates of 10+ microservices every 30 seconds, instantaneous refresh functionality and customizable info graphs to provide insights into system that were previously inaccessible to end-users
- Maintained 95% code coverage under Jest framework and took lead in planning next steps of production

### Research Fellow @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Massachusetts, United States
- Selected as one of the 34 fellows worldwide for 6 weeks of intensive research in applied geometry
- Tested methods of improving 2D Higher-Order meshing (Lab of Professor Marcel Campen, Osnabrück University)
- Created CAD Models and used Iso-geometric analysis software to create heat simulations (Lab of Professor Yongjie
Jessica Zhang, Carnegie Melon University)
- Reproduced a planar reflective symmetry detection neural net for 3D models using deep learning ideas (Lab of
Professor Lin Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences)


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Mathematics and Computer Science
Bryn Mawr College

### Summer Intensive in Arabic Language and Literature
Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/foqiashahid

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Last updated: 2026-04-05