# W. C. > Senior Software Engineer Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/w ## Work Experience ### Technical Lead @ PayPal Jan 2026 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 At PayPal's Braintree organization, I lead design, implementation, and maintenance of critical backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. I also drive architectural decisions and contribute to technical roadmaps for PayPal’s Treasury and Braintree integrations. Ensuring best practices for CI/CD, automated testing, documentation, and code quality is core to my job, which is especially important for a large, legacy code base that has global reach. I am on the official on-call rotation to support the application's many moving parts, responding to emergencies and any job failures in real time to ensure money movement is not interrupted and clients and customers see no disruption to their services. All of this requires deep understanding of financial transaction systems, security, and compliance. Most recently I have integrated AI agents and MCPs into my development lifecycle, to build and use for Braintree's specific context. Additionally, I spend some of my time mentoring and supporting junior engineers and interns with code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance. ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ ROH Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Full stack developer (Rails, React, Typescript, Javascript) at an early stage start-up ### Software Engineer II @ Foxtrot Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Front End React JS/Native Built a React Native app for optimized workflows in inventory management, deliveries, orders, and customer communication ### Software Engineer II @ Home Chef Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Enhanced and maintained a large monolith Rails/React application, Developed a mobile app using React Native ### Software Engineer @ Home Chef Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 ### Software Engineer - Intern @ TangoCode Inc Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chicago, IL iOS developer ### Web Developer @ Dev Bootcamp Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Chicago Broke down, and then rebuilt, my engineering brain. ### Analyst @ Cision Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 Worked with clients to assess product needs Built custom analysis reports using key data points for clients' social and traditional public relations campaigns Continuously revised and reorganize processes and knowledge sharing with teammates Decreased production time by organizing and automating data pulls ### Program Director @ DePaul University Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Iraq Led a team of experts to transform the curriculum in Iraqi primary and secondary schools and universities to include womens' rights topics Exceeded all contract deadlines, often under budget, by reallocating resources and rethinking timelines based on lessons learned from on-the-ground research. Increased project sustainability and longevity by conducting field research to more accurately understand needs of aid recipients, allocating time and money more efficiently ### Social Science Analyst @ U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Created survey tool using standard practices with the Principle Investigator Administered and collected nearly 10,000 surveys Supervised and trained research assistants in proper data collection and data cleaning using SPSS ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Public Policy Analysis The George Washington University ### Web Development Dev Bootcamp Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Government Loyola University Chicago ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/waleeta - GitHub: https://github.com/waleeta --- Source: https://flows.cv/w JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/w/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22