about me
Hi there! 🌸 I’m Hannah Apuan, a Senior Software Engineer with over ✨7 years of experience✨ building and transforming backend systems into scalable, cloud-based solutions. From migrating complex, multi-product systems to optimizing billing, compliance, and account models. I love diving into the details and making things run smoother, faster, and better.I’m passionate about:
- Cloud Tech: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and more)
- Languages I 💖: Golang, Python, Terraform, Docker
- DevOps: Jenkins, Chef, CI/CD
Right now, I’m looking for exciting new opportunities to collaborate with amazing people on impactful projects!
If you’re in need of a creative, passionate engineer with a knack for building high-performance solutions, let’s chat! 💻✨
experience
See my LinkedIn or Resume for the most up-to-date and detailed career experience.- Twilio SendGrid
- Skills: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, SSM), Golang, Python, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Chef, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, REST APIs, Microservices, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, Security & Auth: SSO, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Buildkite, Terraform, Splunk, Kafka, MySQL, CloudFormation, ReactJS, Redux, Nginx, Typescript, Optimizely, Tensorflow
- Level3 Communications now CenturyLink
- Skills: SQL Server, OracleDB, Python, R, ODBC, Tableau, Batch Scripting
- Forsythe Security Solutions now Sirius Computer Solutions
- Skills: Cassandra, CQL, CentOS, Apache Nifi, Nginx, Spring Cloud Dataflow, ApacheMQ
- University of Denver Academic Services
- Skills: Algorithms and Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, Procedural Programming, and Beginner Calculus through Calculus 3
awards
- Cyphercon Cypher Capture the Flag - Lifetime Badge Winner
- Apr 2024
- Awarded a lifetime badge for the Cyphercon conference for being the first to solve the Cypher CTF which utilized cryptography, steganography, and cipher puzzles.
- Twilio Superior Execution Magic Owl Award
- Fall 2019
- Awarded for leading a company-wide initiative for employees to donate at least 5% of their time to community service on a team that helped find, build, and advertise to the entire 10,000 person company opportunities to enable outreach.
- ETHDenver Hackathon 1st place - Implementation of Aragon
- Feb 2018
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Developed a decentralized app (dApp) at ETHDenver using ReactJS, Node, Web3, Truffle, and Ganache. Integrated Aragon Governance with custom namespacing and deployed a custom APM for a decentralized macro-funding platform using BigchainDB and IPFS. Completed the project in a 36-hour hackathon, creating a fully decentralized swarm site.
Project Info: community-jumpstart - University of Denver Outstanding Departmental Service Award
- July 2017
- Awarded for community involvement in initiatives to bring women into tech.
volunteering
- Mentor at Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science at DU
- Nov 2018
- Mentored at the "Mentor for a Moment" event with the University of Denver Ritchie School Engineering and Computer Science Department where I helped over 60 current undergraduate and graduate engineering students with career and academia mentorship advice.
- Women in Tech Panelist At HackCU
- Feb 2018
- Speaking on a panel to attendees of HackCU, Rocky Mountain Region's largest collegiate hackathon held at the University of Colorado Boulder, about being a women in tech.
- Keynote Speaker at ChickTech
- Jan 2018
- Keynote speaker at the inaugural event for the Denver chapter to empower underprivileged female highschoolers to STEM fields, particularly tech.
- Women in Tech Panelist at WCET
- Oct 2017
- Spoke to higher-education instructors at the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies Conference on how to approach the disparity of women in tech on a panel with two other girls, sponsored by the National Center for Women in Information Technology.
