Personal details
Muhammad A.
Technical skills
About
Helping you build reliable, secure, and scalable software. Senior Full Stack Engineer with 7+ years of experience specialising in greenfield projects, web performance and scalable software architecture. A C1-C2 certified English communicator who has built and scaled several products from scratch, and is well versed in JavaScript, Node.js, Python, PHP, SQL, Linux, Docker, and AWS.
Seeking to leverage proven management and engineering expertise in a challenging role.
Front End Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, React, Vue.js
Back End Development: Node.js, Python, Django, PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Moodle, PostgreSQL, Golang, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
DevOps: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Linux, NGINX, Git, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka
Testing: CircleCI, Jest, Cypress, Selenium, pytest, Puppeteer
WebSockets: I built a social network using both REST and WebSockets. I used WebSockets via socket.io for a real-time chat system that included read receipts and file uploads with previews.
Work Experience
Worked as the founding engineer for an EdTech startup in the South Asian market. Responsible for all technical decisions including team building, software architecture and engineering management.
- Saved over 2.5 million PKR in yearly losses by optimising the cloud infrastructure, making the company profitable.
- Optimised a file upload API by implementing streaming uploads resulting in concurrent file uploads of over 50 gigabytes on a single server.
- Achieved 99.95% uptime on our core user-facing application by effectively monitoring and administering the cloud infrastructure.
Leveraged Knowledge in PHP, Moodle, WordPress, Node.js, Vue.js, AWS Media technologies, Linux, Engineering Management
- Enabled rapid dashboard development by building a UI generation tool using JSON Schema, Vue.js and Node.js resulting in faster development of a custom configuration management system.
- Enabled deeper insights into user behaviour by building a business intelligence dashboard using SQL, Postgres and Metabase.
- Improved asynchronous background tasks by using dedicated worker server deployments resulting in uninterrupted continuous task processing at scale.