# Roula Sharqawe > Product Engineer @ Partiful Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/roula ## Work Experience ### Product Engineer @ Partiful Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States ### Founder @ Connectome Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States ### Member @ MoVi Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States Members of MoVi participate in a diverse network of professionals and innovators across a spectrum of disciplines to collectively learn, solve problems, and motivate each other to deepen our understanding of the world ### Healthcare Fellow @ Stand Together Ventures Lab Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Founding Engineer @ Gaia Software, Inc. Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States • Hired as the 2nd founding engineer at an early stage startup that aims to empower child nutrition teams with cloud-native solutions • Implemented an OCR experience for scanning school production records and processing their data using AWS Textract & Chatgpt • Developed a FIFO inventory management system for tracking counts, statuses and different transactions • Designed and implemented various endpoints for read/write, native copy/paste, menu cycling, notifications, errors handling, enhanced search and more • Actively contributed to design and product development discussions ### Software Engineer (SDE II) @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States • Enhanced the Sponsored Brands Video (SBV) experience by implementing Public APIs in Java that allows SBV advertisers to create advertisement campaigns using interactive video creatives • Designed and developed video interactivity for VOD content with a brand new architecture following “SIMID” specification in Amazon’s Freevee app as part of the Interactive Video Ads team’s North Star project for 2022
 • Implemented UI views in Android Native code to enable interactivity for live stream events such as TNF on Prime Video app • Worked cross-functionally with stakeholders from the 1p players’ team, Freevee app, Prime Video app, Alexa, QA and more
 • Participated in on-call rotation, which includes monitoring production dashboards and alarms and effectively troubleshooting and resolving operations tickets • Invited as panelist in DECODED, a virtual networking event helping hire external SDE II's with 44% diversity representation (BLNA/Women) across registrations 
• Mentored interns with some or no technical background (via https://adadevelopersacademy.org/), reviewed their code and evaluated their projects ### Software Engineer (SDE I) @ Amazon Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Developed infrastructure from scratch for an Alexa service that aims to better arbitrate between user utterances within the entertainment domain • Built offline system that automates running ML models that generate the data needed for the online arbitration system ### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Yale University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New Haven Computer Science 223 (CPSC223) Data Structures and Programming Techniques Computer Science 433 (CPSC433) Computer Networks • Held weekly office hours and explained class material and problem set specifications regarding data structures and programming concepts • Helped debug students’ code and directed their thinking to more optimal solutions ### Workshop Lead @ Tumo Center for Creative Technologies Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Armenia • Designed a workshop exclusively for high-school girls who are interested in cybersecurity in Armenia and want to expand their knowledge on how to safely surf the internet and be protected in the digital world we live in • The workshop consisted of a mix of learning and discussion sessions, in-class exercises or “labs” and then a final project of their choice
 • The topics covered in the workshop include cyberbullying, cyberattacks, cryptography, networking etc ### Software Engineering Intern | Frontend Developer @ Zscaler Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Built a Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication system from scratch for an iOS & Android mobile-app used by the company’s top executive clients • Developed a real-time activity notifications system customizable to consumers’ different needs • Reformatted the existing mobile-app UI to be device-responsive and redesigned the existing layout to accommodate for a tablet (mainly iPad) version ### Language & Writing Tutor @ Yale University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hartford, Connecticut Area • Arabic Tutor: Held weekly office hours as well as private 1-on-1 tutoring sessions with college students learning Arabic • Writing Tutor: Mentored middle schoolers in East Rock Public School with writing articles for New Haven’s local newspaper ## Education ### Master's of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Yale University Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ### Yale Summer School in French Language and Literature Étoile Institut De Langue (Paris, France) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/roula-sharqawe --- Source: https://flows.cv/roula JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/roula/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23