
Mouhamad Thiam
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Mouhamad is a full-stack developer focused on the back end. During his seven years of experience in building and delivering solutions for the financial and travel industry clients, he became an expert in creating, exposing, and consuming APIs using Python, FastAPI, Django, JavaScript, and Node.js. Mouhamad is interested in technology innovations such as distributed ledger technology and its applications and enjoys creating solutions that work as inclusion tools and give access to minorities.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, IntelliJ, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, MacOS, Docker, REST, APIs
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed as the team lead is a booking and ticketing engine for flights with CRM, accounting, insurance, and communication modules.
Work Experience
Engineering Lead
Rocketrip
- Developed a sustainability module that estimates CO2 emissions for the clients' past and current trips, helping to offset the harm they did to the planet by presenting reliable dashboards.
- Created a module for travel restrictions that helped travelers determine what to expect when traveling or passing through countries regarding COVID-19 tests, quarantine, vaccinations, visas, and other mandatory documents.
- Took over an existing project by participating in the knowledge transfer and handover. Fixed several bugs and implemented new features and settings to make the app more suitable to the clients' needs.
Back-end Lead
Mondee
- Developed the tour packages to permit integration into the TripPro app with the search, booking, ticketing, and payment features for tours and hotels.
- Created a car rental module integrated with the TripPro app, including the search, booking, ticketing, and payment features with a wide variety of options.
- Built a cruise module in the TripPro app with different search, booking, ticketing, and payment features.
Back-end Lead
Cosmopolitan Travel Service
- Developed a Python portable package importable to several projects, interfacing with GDS providers and consuming their APIs.
- Created a portal as an accounting, searching, booking, and ticketing engine for flights.
- Developed a CRM module to handle customers and their parameters when using the platform.
- Built an insurance module to strengthen our existing app.
Senior Engineering Consultant
MNS Consulting
- Led the engineering team to build a single portal app for the Government of Congo to comply with the doing business report, simplifying the company creation process.
- Studied and proposed a fingerprint authentication app.
- Mentored other junior developers and handled the parts of our infrastructure.
Chief of Development Unit
Sensoft
- Acted as the lead of all finance-related projects in the company; built a transversal knowledge across multiple parts of that field.
- Created an NFC card reader and writer module used for several projects, handling basic inputs and outputs, data encoding, encryption, and security.
- Integrated a mobile payment solution in an existing app, allowing small businesses to handle billing, payments, and reports.
- Built an API gateway agent deployed and configured in the client infrastructure, transforming database access to RESTful API. It mapped the saved procedures to endpoints and exposed them.
- Created a KYC microservice with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing capabilities, which is used by wallet, card, and core banking systems.
- Integrated and enhanced the security module to comply with the law regarding the OTP and password rules for an existing core banking system.
Project Manager
Sensoft
- Developed and supervised the implementation of a bank mobility project—ACEP Fekkisila. Interacted with a core banking system database under Oracle and offered mobility features regarding the client, loan, and transaction via an Android app.
- Implemented an on-site fund collection automation project with FUCCEC Togo and a link with the database under SQL server; agents could recover funds by going directly to the clients.
- Contributed to the technical implementation of a project named "Small Savings Digitization" with Asusu SA in Niger. Helped agents collect savings from small commerce tenders.
Lead Developer
Sensoft
- Developed a transactions module for a mobile app, having several transaction types such as sending, receiving, refund, cash in, and cash out.
- Created a back-office web app to monitor transactions and apply constraints.
- Integrated the transaction reports and dashboard for each level, including the cashier, supervisor, network admins, and platform admins.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Sensoft
- Acted as the principal developer working directly with the lead developer. Refactored an existing app and developed new features.
- Built an accounting core module for a money transfer app. This module mimicked the accounting plan and tracked and handled how the money is moved between different transactions' accounts.
- Developed a settings module for a money transfer app for all entities involved in money transfer, such as platforms, networks, and distributors.
Experience
Card Management System for Refugees
I built an Android app, a back end and back-office web app for the card management system that completed an existing wallet app. I used the NFC technology and fingerprint to authenticate the users and Excel import to set up amounts in the back office for beneficiaries. We enabled the Android app to have all balances offline and perform verification in not connected environments with a sync mechanism.
Flight B2B Booking Engine
https://hero.ctsfares.com/My tasks involved proposing the actual architecture, leading the team, building the entire authentication microservice, and other project parts.
Small Savings Digitalization
I led the project and provided an end-to-end digitization solution, offering the agents a mobile app and connecting directly with the core banking system.
Skills
Languages
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Groovy, SQL, GraphQL, Unicorn
Paradigms
REST, Agile Project Management, Agile, Concurrent Programming
Platforms
Docker, Linux, MacOS, Heroku, Android, Nexus, Oracle
Storage
Databases, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis
Other
Software Engineering, Web Development, Data Structures, APIs, API Integration, Computer Architecture, FastAPI, API Documentation, Back-end, Architecture, Technical Leadership, Distributed Systems, Algebra, Programming, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematical Analysis, Apollo, PI Development, GitHub Actions, Near-field Communication (NFC), Starlette, SOAP
Frameworks
Express.js, Grails, Django, Swagger, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Alembic, Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, Spring, Spring MVC
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, SQLAlchemy, REST APIs, React, Vue 2, OpenLDAP
Tools
IntelliJ, RabbitMQ, Celery, Lerna, Mongoose, Eureka, Camunda BPM, Apache Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, Supervisord
Education
Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science
Gaston Berger University - Saint Louis, Senegal
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Gaston Berger University - Saint Louis, Senegal
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Gaston Berger University - Saint Louis, Senegal
Associate Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Gaston Berger University - Saint Louis, Senegal