Zahraa Sadeq

Senior Software Engineer (Remote), Sappers Group

Santa Clara, CA | March 2025 – Present

• Build LLM API integrations, AI agents, RAG systems, prompt engineering and Python automation workflows for enterprise productivity tools.
• Support AWS cloud architecture, deployment, networking, security and infrastructure management.
• Containerize and deploy services with Docker and Kubernetes, including orchestration, scaling and cloud-native deployments.
• Build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins and Terraform, automating deployments and release engineering as infrastructure-as-code.
• Improve reliability of distributed systems with telemetry, tracing and logging in Prometheus and Grafana, and debug issues at scale.
• Contribute modern C++17/20 for embedded Linux: multithreading, performance optimization and networking.
• Use Python for infrastructure and automation: scripting, test frameworks, infrastructure tooling and AI integration.
• Consult remotely with clients: technical writing, solution architecture discussions, and translating technical problems into business value.

Software Engineer, Raytheon

Tucson, AZ | August 2020 – March 2025

• Developed high-performance C/C++ software for real-time distributed systems on Linux and Windows in multi-processor embedded environments (PPC and DSP, VxWorks).
• Debugged complex system-level failures across distributed subsystems in Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test environments.
• Led root-cause analysis of mission-critical software and hardware integration issues, improving system reliability and reducing recurring defects.
• Designed and maintained Python automation tooling adopted across integration and verification teams, significantly reducing manual test execution time.
• Served as Build Manager: validated integrated software builds, coordinated releases and supported multi-team integration.
• Wrote automated unit and module tests for mission-critical C/C++ with GoogleTest and GMock.
• Conducted peer code reviews and authored technical documentation on debugging procedures, system behavior and failure analysis.

Software Engineer Intern, Raytheon

Tucson, AZ | June 2020 – August 2020

• Wrote Lua scripts for Wireshark to analyze and filter traffic between distributed system components.
• Debugged software and hardware integration issues through packet analysis and protocol inspection.
• Wrote operating guides for the mission computer lab test environment.

Integration & Verification Engineer Intern, Raytheon

Tucson, AZ | June 2019 – July 2019

• Supported debugging and validation of integrated software and hardware systems.
• Updated legacy test procedures and documentation with systems engineering leadership.

Nesvia, nesvia.app

Founder and sole engineer

• Mobile app that reads product labels with a vision model, matches every ingredient against public scientific sources (PubChem, EPA CompTox, openFDA, USDA) and scores each product 0–100.
• Built end to end: Expo / React Native app, FastAPI and PostgreSQL backend, ingredient-matching and scoring pipeline with an explicit unrated state for unreadable products.

Swazona Media, swazona.media

Co-builder

• Arabic-first AI marketing agency where a team of agents (strategist, copywriter, designer, media buyer, analyst and more) plans, produces and publishes a month of content.
• Orchestration is a PostgreSQL state machine, not an LLM: every step is a recorded transition, every post waits for owner approval, and ad spend stays inside hard budget envelopes. FastAPI, Taskiq, Next.js, Meta Graph API.

FractalEyes

Senior design project, University of Arizona | 2019 – 2020

• Medical imaging application in Python and OpenCV for image segmentation and feature extraction (luminosity, granularity, color frequency), with an Electron desktop GUI. Awarded Best Implementation of Agile Methodology.

M.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

2020 – 2022 | GPA 3.8

B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

2015 – 2020 | GPA 3.4