Professional engineering at Elm
Building software as part of a professional team — working to real requirements, delivery timelines and engineering standards, and learning how large systems are maintained over time rather than just built once.
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Nawaf Aburas
Software Developer at Elm
I am a software developer with a backend focus. I started writing code in 2022, spent the following years building complete systems on my own — database, business logic and interface — and today I do that professionally at Elm with C#, .NET and SQL Server, alongside Angular on the frontend.
What I care about is the part users never see: a data model that holds up, layers that stay separated, and code that another engineer can pick up without a guided tour.
Before Elm, I led a multi-department team of 38+ members — experience that taught me how work actually gets delivered once more than one person is involved.
Right now
What I’m focused on
Depth in backend & architecture
Going deeper on ASP.NET Core, advanced C#, relational design and the architectural patterns that keep a growing codebase understandable.
Certification & structured learning
Pursuing professional certifications that formalise what I practise daily, and keeping a steady habit of deliberate study alongside the job.
Approach
How I work
Always learning
I treat learning as part of the job. My path from programming fundamentals to .NET, ASP.NET Core and Angular came from steady, deliberate study — a habit that continues alongside my work.
Quick to adapt
New codebases, teams and standards are where I ramp up quickly — by understanding how things already work before changing them.
Learning what the work needs
When a project calls for a tool or technology I haven’t used, I learn it properly and apply it to the standard the work requires.
Capabilities
Skills
Technical
- Core: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core
- APIs: RESTful API design, authentication and authorization
- Databases: SQL Server, database design, database optimization
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure
- Architecture: Layered & 3-tier architecture, OOP, separation of concerns
- Practice: Git & GitHub, code review, debugging, Agile delivery
- Frontend: Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
- Also: .NET Framework, JavaScript, C++, Windows Forms
Professional
- Team leadership — led 38+ members across specialized teams
- Coordination — aligning multiple departments toward shared goals
- Continuous learning — picking up the technologies the work requires
- Adaptability — ramping up quickly on new codebases, teams and standards
- Problem solving — breaking large, vague problems into solvable parts
- Communication — explaining technical decisions in plain language
- Ownership — seeing work through from requirement to delivery
Background
Where I come from
Self-directed engineering
Two years of structured backend training and more than 1,500 programming challenges solved — the foundation everything else is built on.
Team leadership
After a year on the TechUp team, I took on the role of Team Lead, managing 38+ members across multiple departments toward shared goals.
View roleEntrepreneurship track
Completed an entrepreneurship and management track covering business planning, leadership, innovation and strategy — useful context for building products people use.
Goal
Build systems that hold up
To grow into technical leadership — owning systems from idea to production and leading the teams that build them, on a foundation of strong engineering fundamentals.