Ahmed Anas, Developer in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Ahmed Anas

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Full-stack Developer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Toptal member since September 9, 2020

Expertise
MySQLJavaScriptNode.jsExpress.jsCodeIgniterTypeScriptAWSPHPNginxMongoDBReact.jsDocker
Bio

Ahmed is a full-stack web developer and project manager with expertise in building and launching platforms. As a senior developer, Ahmed built the codebase for an events platform that ultimately gained funding of $250,000 in the US and Asian markets. He also co-founded the startup FrizHub, which quickly grew to six figures in annual revenue and a team of 15+ people. Ahmed looks forward to applying his skills in projects that demand the highest level of skill to create, scale, and run.

Portfolio

Contanuity
Amazon Web Services (AWS), React, Angular, MySQL, Node.js, JavaScript
FrizHub
React, Angular, Hapi.js, MySQL, Scrapy, Python, PHP, JavaScript
Vakeel Online (by Justice Project Pakistan)
MySQL, React, Node.js

Experience

  • MySQL - 8 years
  • JavaScript - 7 years
  • Node.js - 5 years
  • Angular - 4 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 4 years
  • PHP - 3 years
  • MongoDB - 1 year
  • React - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Trello, Slack, GitHub, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

The most amazing...

...My work was with MV-Realty, where I developed queries and database optimizations to retrieve geospatial data in real time from a dataset about 1 TB in size.

Work Experience

Project Manager | Senior Full-stack Developer

2017 - PRESENT
Contanuity
  • Built and scaled the architecture of more than five tech platforms.
  • Managed a team of over ten people and ensured productivity.
  • Optimized various database queries which reduced data retrieval time by over 50%.
  • Scaled a scraping platform from handling 400,000 pages per day to over 10 million pages per day.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), React, Angular, MySQL, Node.js, JavaScript

Project Manager

2016 - 2020
FrizHub
  • Managed a team of over ten people working on more than three projects on web and mobile technologies.
  • Introduced project management techniques via Jira and Trello to improve productivity and management.
  • Co-founded and expanded the team, achieving revenue in the six figures (USD).
  • Played a pivotal role in introducing technical training of the team to improve and maintain quality.
Technologies: React, Angular, Hapi.js, MySQL, Scrapy, Python, PHP, JavaScript

Senior Project Manager

2018 - 2019
Vakeel Online (by Justice Project Pakistan)
  • Aided in the securing of second-round funding through the German Embassy in 2020 (thanks to the build done in 2018).
  • Built and led the team which continues to manage the platform after the second round of funding.
  • Oversaw and conceptualized the architecture for the system to allow for the generation of legal documents—the primary innovation for the app in its first release in 2018.
Technologies: MySQL, React, Node.js

Senior Full-stack Developer | Project Manager

2017 - 2018
Citymixr
  • Solely developed the initial version and helped secure $250,000 in funding.
  • Optimized SEO using SSR which only triggered for web crawlers (Nginx implementation).
  • Built and oversaw a team of over five people to develop the platform.
Technologies: MySQL, Angular, Node.js

Senior Full-stack Developer

2016 - 2017
CareClinic
  • Optimized various modules through caching and preprocessing, achieving a reduction in load times for multiple seconds to milliseconds.
  • Architected the system which raised (undisclosed) funding in 2019.
  • Built and enforced various architectural standards and modules which continue to be used in the core app.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP

Senior Full-stack Developer

2016 - 2017
MV Realty
  • Optimized the database and queries to retrieve approximately 1TB of geospatial data in real-time.
  • Integrated Google Maps with geospatial data, allowing for real-time overlays of real-estate data.
  • Developed and maintained the Angular and PHP modules for geospatial data while working directly under the directory of technology for MV Realty.
Technologies: Angular, MySQL, PHP

Senior Software Engineer in Computer Vision

2014 - 2015
Groopic, Inc. | Ingrain.io
  • Developed the algorithm to efficiently compute a metric for alignment on multiple pictures (for the Groopic app).
  • Improved and implemented the primary object-tracking algorithm to be scalable to multiple threads, gaining an improvement of over 8x in processing time.
  • Developed the primary advertisement augmentation module for videos allowing for augmentation of an object onto a prerecorded video.
Technologies: OpenCV, C++

Assistant Software Engineer

2014 - 2014
CureMD
  • Led the initiative to convert the web platform from an Internet Explorer-only implementation to be cross-browser.
  • Achieved an outstanding performance and gained a the "fast-track" promotion offer based on my skills and achievements.
  • Developed Regex expressions to automatically convert Internet Explorer-only code to cross-browser compatible code.
Technologies: .NET

Lead Web Developer

2013 - 2014
Round One Fight
  • Formulated the algorithm to determine comparisons based on user history and general trends.
  • Built the full single-page application in a time when there were no popular JavaScript frameworks available.
  • Reduced load times by over 50% through image compressions, low-resolution image overlays, database caching, data pre-processing, and various other techniques.
Technologies: jQuery, JavaScript, PHP

Full-stack Developer

2012 - 2013
Rezo Systems
  • Introduced a modular approach to their architecture which became a standard for use in newer deployments.
  • Implemented the modular approach which allowed for the reduction of approximately 50% in development time when sharing modules.
  • Developed and managed the production deployments of various reservation systems.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP

Experience

Citymixr

Citymixr is an event social platform that was built on Node.js, Angular, and MySQL.

This platform gained funding of $250,000 with the codebase I built, and later I helped them build a team that I led to develop the platform as it is now. Although currently looking for another round of funding, Citymixr is still active in certain towns of the US.

Vakeel Online

I worked as a senior project manager and architect for Vakeel Online, a startup that aims to connect lawyers with people in need of legal advice.

It was seed funded in 2018 and secured funding again in 2020. Vakeel online is a pioneer in its domain.

• https://apps.apple.com/sa/app/vakeel-online/id1488319709
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jpp.asaaninsaf

Education

2016 - 2019

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Lahore University of Management Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan

2010 - 2014

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, React, Chai, Puppeteer, OpenCV, jQuery

Tools

Sequelize, Mocha, NGINX, GitHub, Slack, Trello

Languages

JavaScript, PHP, TypeScript, Python, C++

Frameworks

Express.js, Angular, CodeIgniter, Hapi.js, Scrapy, .NET

Storage

MySQL, MongoDB

Platforms

Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Other

Machine Learning

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