Salla DIAGNE

🧑🏾‍💻🌎 Full Remote Software Engineer

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💼 Work Experience

Software Engineer @ Meltwater 🇺🇸 (Remote) (January 2022 - Present)

maintain an application whose task is to calculate the number of engagements (likes, shares, comments, etc.) on various input social sources (tweets, Facebook posts, Reddit posts…) then feed the results into an output stream for further processing
introduced the team to the use of approval testing
co-led the migration of our continuous integration and deployment process from Drone to Github Actions
help migrate our infrastructure from from AWS to Azure
used concepts: agile, functional programming, continuous integration/deployment, infrastructure as code, ship/show/ask branching strategy
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Software Engineer @ Colisweb 🇫🇷 (September 2016 - December 2021)

helped set up and develop a functional programming and domain-first mindset throughout the team
co-designed and co-initiated the transition of our software from a Ruby monolith to autonomous and high-performing Scala microservices
designed, developed, deployed and maintained various Scala services using Functional Programming, Domain Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, CQRS/Event Sourcing
coded in Ruby to maintain the monolith while the transition to Scala microservices is being completed
helped set up our CI/CD process and our deployment infrastructure with Docker/Kubernetes/AWS and Gitlab CI
supervised two interns throughout their end-of-studies internships and helped them be quickly productive and contribute highly
used concepts: agile, functional programming, microservices, domain driven design, hexagonal architecture, event sourcing, cqrs, continuous integration/deployment, infrastructure as code
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Software Developer @ Vekia 🇫🇷 (March 2014 - August 2016) (apprenticeship)

wrote specifications, developed and tested human-computer interface using the Test-Driven Development methodology
set up a new technical stack of upcoming projects
developed and maintained crosscutting tools (specification, development, tests, documentation)
used concepts: mvp architecture, waterfall model, continuous integration
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🚧 Projects

🏀 NBA Fantasy League: pet project that leverages data from the NBA to display stats about players and teams
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👨🏾‍🏫 Teaching

🏫 Eductive Lille

Functional Programming in Scala
Domain Driven Design
Human Machine Interfaces
Distributed Treatments with Apache Spark

🏠 Home/Remote

♾️ Maths: high school level
💬 Languages: English and French
👨🏾‍💻 Programming: Scala, Python, Haskell, C and Java

✍🏾 Writing

Type your business: How to reduce the possibility of introducing bugs and make your program safer

Scala IO 2016: Thoughts and notes about a conference I attended with Colisweb

💬 Languages

🇫🇷 French: fluent
🇬🇧 English: fluent
🇸🇳 Wolof: fluent
🇪🇸 Spanish: proficient
🇵🇹 Portuguese: limited

❤️ Passions

👟 Sports: football ⚽️, basketball 🏀, tennis 🎾, running 🏃🏾‍♂️, gym 🏋🏾‍♂️, swimming 🏊🏾‍♂️, cycling 🚵🏾‍♂️
🎞️ Cinema: movies and TV shows in original versions, old movies
✈️ Traveling: Senegal 🇸🇳, France 🇫🇷, Belgium 🇧🇪, Netherlands 🇳🇱, Greece 🇬🇷, Malta 🇲🇹, Croatia 🇭🇷, Mexico 🇲🇽, Sweden 🇸🇪, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Hungary 🇭🇺, Austria 🇦🇹, Germany 🇩🇪, Canada 🇨🇦, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
📚 Reading: self-help books
🎮 Video games: sports, adventure, FPS

👨🏾‍🎓 Education

Master Degree in Software Engineering
Lille 1 University - Lille, France 🇫🇷 (2014 - 2016)

Bachelor in Software Engineering
Lille 1 University - Lille, France 🇫🇷 (2011 - 2014)

High School baccalaureate in maths, physics and chemistry
Cours Sainte Marie de Hann - Dakar, Sénégal 🇸🇳 (2011)