Ayyaz Ali

Course Eagle is a globally accessible online learning platform that offers a way to learn and share knowledge without boundaries and with flair. Course Eagle makes online learning easy through its comprehensive online learning management system (LMS) that can be accessed from anywhere. Thus making it possible for students to continue their studies while being in any part of the world.

I led a team of 5-10 and was also the co-founder. We achieved our vision of making it easy for students to get help in their studies and it grew to have more than 1 million users worldwide.

Tasks Accomplished:
• Developed the app.
• Implemented a voice search.
• Parsed the images to be included in searches.
• Converted images into the text of all the databases of over 500,000 rows.
• Added the Elasticsearch functionality.
• Designed and structured the database to store data efficiently.
• Implemented the parser to parse hundreds of files at a single time.
• Built a desktop app to easily handle uploads.
• Implemented cross-page links to make it easier for users to navigate to a specific term.
• Deployed the app to AWS.
• Made it scalable so that it could handle hundreds of students at a single time.
• Built the data entry points.

Penhouse is a gift manufacturer that enables customers to buy customized gifts for their loved ones via engraved items.

I am the co-founder of this project and have built the system to handle the orders online.

Tasks Accomplished:
• Managed 5-10 people on this project.
• Established sprints and added items to the backlog.
• Gathered project requirements.
• Built the inventory management system to keep track of more than 100,000 products.
• Created an accounting management system to keep track of all the finance details.
• Built an employee system to make it easy for the employees to coordinate in real-time to deliver parcels faster.
• Added cross-platform dispatching to make it easier to book parcels through different courier services.
• Retained order histories so that the support team could easily and quickly provide support to the user.
• Scaled the application so that it could handle more than 500 orders in a single day (which it did).
• Ensued that the site could handle more than 1,000 users at a single point.
• Built a cross-tracking system to track customer orders.
• Implemented a marketing solution for the product to use Amazon SES and sending marketing emails.

The project aims to help students worldwide with educational resources and supporting material to help them study. The plan for this product is to grow the traffic to over 100,000 users per month, and the application will be able to handle a load of users simultaneously.

Tasks accomplished:
• Created the database designs for this product.
• Created and managed Figma designs with the designer.
• Managed the Jira board for the team.
• Created and allocated tasks to get the most out of the development team.
• Created the roadmap for product launch.
• Defined the structure of the application to have room for future updates.
• Created a flexible and scalable database.
• Discussed the growth plan with the team.
• Created a content strategy to leverage the most out of the product.