# Huda Q. > Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/hudaq ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Engine Jan 2023 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States - Generative Mermaid dags embedded in pull requests via CircleCI Orbs. Built using Python and Gradle/Kotlin. Helped developers understand impact of code changes on other microservices for improved deployments to production/reliability. - Partnered with security to limit the number of developers with “god mode” access to production from dozens to 0 to fulfill Soc2 compliance. - Contributed to ~$1.0M savings for engineering org by creating dashboards to track GCP cloud spend by team and kubernetes service. - Led team infrastructure migrations and deployments to a new internal platform (codename “Shuttle Crawler”). Leveraged Terragrunt, Helm, and CircleCI for “everything as code” initiative. - Reduced Q1 2022 engineering org spend by ~$40K through identifying historicals for removal on Apache Druid database. - Migrated feature flags in Typescript and Kotlin source code from Unleash to LaunchDarkly service. - Served tier 0 on-call engineer shifts and documented on-call training detailing shift escalation policies, procedures, monitors, and runbooks. ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Columbia University in the City of New York Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States -Conducted a sensitivity analysis of the effect of 7 different parametric wind models on storm surge projections using a suite of 1000 hurricanes and simulating in GeoClaw, a geophysical flow simulator written in fortran and python. -Analyzed and plotted data using Jupyter notebooks to build surge probability maps for NYC and Mumbai. -Designed pipeline using python interface to run, simulate, and process data sets of simulated storms in Geoclaw. -Wrote code to standardize input from 7 different storm data formats into fortran readable files for simulations. ### Research Assistant @ Columbia University in the City of New York Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States ### Junior Curriculum Developer @ Girls Who Code Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area -Developed 40 hours of python OOP curriculum as part of a 7-week summer program used by 1500 high school girls in grades 10-11 over 60+ summer sites. Trained 50+ teachers in OOP curriculum over three teacher training events. -Conducted both technical and behavioral interviews for teachers and teaching assistants for summer programs -Built database surveying 40+ programming educational curriculum online as internal staff resource and to provide additional resources for Girls Who Code alumni, summer program students, and clubs students -Designed and conducted weekly coding lessons for GWC staff. Additional work as site lead for 3 summer sites. ### Computer Systems Engineer I @ Berkeley Lab Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA Developer in heuristic graph-embedding algorithms for mapping QUBO problems on D-Wave quantum computer. Tested and compared algorithms performance in minor embedding on various graphs. ### Research Intern @ Berkeley Lab Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, CA Studied graph data structures, programming concepts, and path-finding algorithms Dijkstra, Breadth-first-search, depth-first-search, and heuristic algorithm A to develop minor graph embedding algorithms in Python. ### Quantitative Resource Tutor @ Birmingham-Southern College Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Tutored students from Pre-Calculus to Calculus III. ### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Birmingham-Southern College Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Birmingham, AL Participated in Rhodes-BSC Biomathematics REU}{Birmingham-Southern College.Collaborated with several students on agent-based allee model for Santa Cruz island foxes. Wrote, edited, and tested agent-based Disease model for island foxes using NetLogo. Presented final paper at Ecology Conference in October. ### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Birmingham-Southern College Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Tested stability, dissipation and dispersion properties, and evolution of numerical schemes for scalar and nonlinear scalar wave equations with general relativity type nonlinearities using MatLab. Compared performance of novel numerical scheme with properties of known methods. Presented at Undergraduate Conference for Women in Physics. ### Teaching Assistant for Linear Algebra @ Birmingham-Southern College Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Graded homework sets, MatLab labs, typed solutions in LaTeX, and conducted review sessions. ### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Birmingham-Southern College Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Analyzed special cases of Lights Out game to arrive at two conjectures. Presented on BSC Honor's Day and Undergraduate Research Conference at Morehouse College. ### Teaching Assistant For Multivariable Calculus @ Birmingham-Southern College Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Graded homework sets, typed solutions using LaTeX, and conducted review sessions ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Applied Mathematics Columbia Engineering ### Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Physics Birmingham-Southern College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hudasmq --- Source: https://flows.cv/hudaq JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hudaq/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23