Hi, I'mFarhana Mustafa

Senior Software Engineer

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Profile

Software Engineer by day.
Tech Blogger by night.

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science | Syracuse University

Awards

Anita B Org's Scholar for Grace Hopper Celebration 2017
Nike Scholar 2018 for Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
Google Conference and Travel Scholarship for Google I/O 2019
Women Developers Academy Cohort 1: May 2021

Public Speaking

CodeNewbie Podcast: Season 16: Episode 6 - June 14, 2021

What failing technical interviews can teach you

Tech Intersections Speaker - January 28, 2023

Goodbye React Native! Intuit's journey to enhance banking for customers

Girl Geek X ELEVATE Conference - December 4, 2024

Blogging for Software Engineers: The Ultimate Career Hack

Projects

Women of Marvel iOS Application

Developed with Swift and UIKit May 2022

Displays the Women of Marvel Comic book in a iOS application made with UIKit. This also includes unit tests and a UI test that uses the Builder Pattern.

GitHub Repo

Studio Ghibli Movies iOS Application

Developed with Swift and UIKit February 2020

iOS application that displays Studio Ghibli movies using the Studio Ghibli API.

GitHub Repo

Book Recommender

Developed with React November 2019

Using the NYTimes Book API, this web application recommends a Best seller book to the user based on a chosen genre.

Live Version GitHub Repo

Sticky Notes

Developed with React December 2017

Sticky Note Board Application made with React.JS and Bacon Ipsum API

Live Version GitHub Repo

My Photography

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Blog

Painless Objective-C and Swift Interoperability

Date published September 26, 2022

Learn the best practices of exposing Swift code to Objective-C

Medium Post

Understanding PubSub with Combine in iOS

Date published August 13, 2022

I explain to readers what is the pub/sub pattern with YouTube as an example, then I dive into explaining the intricacies of Combine with a sample app that uses the NYTime Books API

Medium Post

Make your iOS app accessible

Date published May 17, 2022

Learn how to test your UIKit app with all users in mind

Medium Post

Detecting Memory Leaks in iOS

Date published April 17, 2022

Learn about memory leaks and how to catch them with Instruments and the memory graph

Medium Post

Implement SwiftUI within UIKit

Date published March 17, 2022

Use UIHostingController to easily add a SwiftUI view within your existing UIKit code

Medium Post

Using the MVVM Architectural Design Pattern in iOS

Date published February 17, 2022

Learn about the advantages of MVVM and see a real life example in use

Medium Post

Mistakes I've seen as a Technical Interviewer

Date published December 17, 2021

I've interviewed new grads looking for their first software engineering role. Here are the mistakes I've seen during technical interviews.

Medium Post

What I learned from failing my technical interviews

Date published December 17, 2020

I get real vulnerable here about my experiences with interviewing and I hope you get to learn a thing or two from me.

Dev.To Link

How to Build a Book Recommender with React.js

Date published April 7, 2020

Build a web app with React.js to pick a random NYTimes Best Seller book for your next read.

Dev.To Link
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