Aima Ovai — from biomedical systems to backend systems.

I didn’t start out writing software for a living. I studied Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Texas — a Bachelor’s, then a one-year accelerated Master’s — with a minor in Computer Science along the way. That program was a pressure cooker in the best way: it built a foundation in analytical thinking, programming, and solving genuinely hard problems under real constraints — limited time, incomplete data, and systems that don’t care how tired you are.

Somewhere between modeling biological systems and writing scrappy code for lab work, I realized I didn’t just love the building part — I loved the software as much as the science. Today I hold both fields with equal weight: biomedical engineering taught me how to reason about complex systems, and software gave me the tools to actually build and ship them.

Four-ish years in, I’ve shipped React & TypeScript microservices at Dell and now build Java + Vert.x backends, while switching between Full Stack projects at American Express. The biomedical instinct never really left: I still treat systems like living things — with feedback loops, failure modes, and edge cases that deserve attention before they announce themselves at 3am.

I’m a curious generalist at heart. Off-hours I’m usually reading about distributed systems, sketching side projects, or chasing a better night’s sleep from my bedroom in Phoenix, AZ.