Safia Abdalla
Software Engineer at Warp
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolSafia Abdalla is a Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building developer platforms, frameworks, and cloud services that improve developer productivity and DX. She’s shipped full‑stack and backend features at scale—most recently as a Principal/Senior engineer at Microsoft and now at Warp—working on Blazor, .NET runtime/tooling, and developer tooling for cloud scenarios. An active open‑source maintainer for over a decade, she’s contributed to high‑impact projects like Jupyter, BinderHub, and multiple .NET repos, often improving test infrastructure, debugging tooling, and frontend UX. Her work blends systems thinking with a strong focus on usability, reliability, and secure defaults, and she frequently tells technical stories and mentors other engineers. Beyond code, she writes about engineering craft at blog.safia.rocks and has a track record of turning subtle UX and testing gaps into durable platform improvements.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Northside College Preparatory High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Northwestern University
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nteract/archived-desktop-app
Jan 2016 - May 2022
📘 The interactive computing suite for you! ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 72 reviews, 2519 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Safia primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the type definitions within the project, specifically related to the `@nteract/types` package and its usage across multiple components. They made significant efforts to update and refactor code to align with newer versions of immutable and flow. They also implemented enhancements to the editor component and output rendering, demonstrating expertise in front-end development and component integration.
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microsoft/aspire
Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
Aspire is the tool for code-first, extensible, observable dev and deploy.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:421 reviews, 177 PRs, 554 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Safia contributed significantly to the Azure Functions integration within the Aspire framework, developing tools, templates, and packages. Their work included implementing an end-to-end prototype for Azure Functions, supporting Service Bus and CosmosDB resources, and adding CosmosDB triggers. They addressed issues such as setting up configurations, applying workarounds, and ensuring proper environment variable settings for these integrations. The user also added tests and fixed existing problems related to Azure Functions within the context of the project.
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