Iqbal Hussain

Metaverse Job Japan is a blockchain-based play-to-earn gaming guild funded by Animoca Brands. Most of its competitors had a smaller number of players (less than 100), so they could manage all the players and day-to-day operations manually; for example, deciding when to suspend a player, onboarding new players, and paying out to players. We wanted to grow beyond the limit that humans can manage. We needed a system to automate all or most of the day-to-day operations to run a guild of several thousands of players.

I architected, developed, deployed, and maintained the system from scratch. The system had to be highly secured because thousands of blockchain transactions took place every month, and it was consistently scaling up. As a result, several thousand players experience a seamless experience with minimal human action.

WORK JAPAN is a job search platform in Japan, mainly for foreign blue-collar workers who don't speak Japanese. It has two front-end applications: a web app where employers post jobs and a mobile application for iOS and Android where job seekers can search and apply for jobs and schedule interviews with employers. Both front end applications communicate with a single back-end application.

I architected, developed, deployed, and maintained the back-end application from scratch until new engineers joined at a later stage. I built the initial employer website from scratch using React. After a while, we hired a full-time front-end developer who managed the web app.

I was also in charge of DevOps and ensured less than five minutes of total server downtime for the system in three years. There were more than 150,000 users.

WealthPack was an Android-based mobile app for managing personal expenses. It accessed a user's SMS inbox, found all transactions related to the SMS, and parsed the messages using regex to detect attributes related to the transaction. These attributes included the amount involved in a transaction, whether the amount was debited or credited, and where the money was spent. After parsing the transactions, the app displayed the transactions in an interactive way.

As a founding back-end developer, I designed and developed the back end from scratch until other team members joined at a later stage. I also deployed and managed this application on the production server, and it reached more than 50,000 users.

Collegebol was a college reviewing system where current students and alumni could review their colleges based on multiple attributes. Prospective students could use these reviews to find a college that matched their needs. This was my first full-time professional project immediately after completing my master's degree. I developed the back-end system and built RESTful APIs consumed by a web app.

An application to screen stocks in near real-time based on matching criteria set by the user. Whenever there's a match, the user will receive a push notification and be able to make a decision based on the notification.

This is an unreleased personal project. I'm building the back end using Python, Django, and the front end iOS and Android mobile apps with React Native.