Aiham Hammami
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Toptal member since July 7, 2021
Aiham is a senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of professional programming experience. He co-founded Supercooldata, a bootstrapped startup that helps people learn data analytics with SQL. Previously working full-time at two US tech startups and an Australian data consultancy, his skillset ranges from UI to databases to cloud deployments. Still, his deepest knowledge is in JavaScript, specifically React and Node.js, and more recently, TypeScript and Next.js.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Git, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a profitable bootstrapped startup, including writing all code and managing customer support and financials.
Work Experience
Co-founder | CTO
Supercooldata
- Co-founded a profitable bootstrapped startup without relying on any external funding.
- Built the full codebase on my own in a nimble way leveraging Next.js and the Serverless Framework to do the heavy lifting and get the product out to market as quickly as possible.
- Optimized the product user experience with regular user interviews and feedback while focusing on the problem we're solving for the end users.
Senior Software Engineer
Stella Jobs
- Built a complex job search feature with a responsive React front end, infinite scrolling grid layout, cursor-based stateless paginated Python Flask REST API, PostgreSQL full-text search, and PostGIS location query (20 ms against millions of rows).
- Built three complex React Native mobile apps supporting iOS and Android within four months, including Firebase social authentication, dozens of API-integrated screens, and complex interconnected screen flow and navigation.
- Mentored and assisted three team members with regular code reviews, advice, and support.
Open Source Developer
Origin Protocol
- Developed the Origin Protocol JavaScript SDK which integrated Web3.js and IPFS to offer a great developer experience. Added much needed testing to the SDK and improved the build tools for the SDK using webpack and truffle.
- Joined the Origin Protocol open source project and took the initiative to find problems to solve and contribute to the team without external guidance.
- Participated in weekly standup with the global distributed team and collaborated well before being offered a paid position to join the team full-time.
Senior Software Engineer
TokBox
- Designed and built a JavaScript API methodically without breaking backward compatibility in over two years. Handled millions of daily real-time video connections using WebRTC for thousands of API customers.
- Built the OpenTok React npm package with over 700,000 downloads serving a huge need by TokBox customers who used OpenTok but had trouble integrating it into React. I came up with this package during a hackathon and built it into an official library.
- Instrumented the existing Java-based REST API with Swagger annotations to generate a Swagger specification. Then I auto-generated client-side libraries (Node.js, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, and C#) that were previously hand-written and inconsistent.
Pre-sales Consultant
Servian
- Led a team of five engineers building an Angular web app and Java REST API, which processed millions of rows of telecommunications user data with complex aggregations and visualized them with C3.js charts.
- Built two internal mobile apps for a major Australian Bank using Ionic, AngularJS, Cordova, and Java and deployed on AWS. Six years later, it is still the most popular internal app used by over 15,000 employees.
- Built a sophisticated Python-based PDF parser and accompanying Angular web app for another major Australian bank. It extracted text, images, tables, and charts from research article PDFs and displayed them as a responsive mobile web app.
Experience
Supercooldata
https://www.supercooldata.com/WebRTC Blockchain
https://github.com/aiham/webrtc-blockchain/Cryptocurrency Arbitrage Trading Bot
Database Optimization Proxy Server
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and International Studies
University of Technology Sydney - Sydney, Australia
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform Developer
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, REST APIs, WebRTC, C3.js, Stripe API, ImageMagick, Passport.js, D3.js, Web3.js, Socket.IO
Tools
Git, Firebase Authentication, Auth0, Mocha, Terraform, Keycloak, CircleCI, Travis CI, NPM, Webpack, MetaMask
Languages
Python, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, TypeScript, Snowflake, Java, Perl, GraphQL
Frameworks
Next.js, React Native, Swagger, Redux, Express.js, Flask, Serverless Framework, Jasmine, Jest, AngularJS, Ionic, Hadoop, Spark, Selenium, Truffle
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS Lambda, Firebase, iOS, Android, Kubernetes, Blockchain, Ethereum
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redshift
Other
API Design, WebSockets, Streaming Data, Leadership, Architecture, React Hooks, Payment APIs, Push Notifications, Parsers, Proxy Servers, Startups, Google BigQuery, Bluetooth, Reverse Engineering, Data Visualization, Open Source, IPFS, Cryptocurrency, Cryptography, Bitcoin, Trading, Cryptocurrency Exchanges
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