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Hire MuhammadMuhammad Hassan Siddiqui
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Lahore, Pakistan
Toptal member since June 13, 2022
Bio
Hassan is an experienced back-end developer specializing in Django, Flask, and FastAPI. He has extensive experience designing and developing multiple projects and is highly focused and attentive to detail. Hassan developed complex features within very short deadlines and applications that supported various languages and were used by thousands of users worldwide.
Portfolio
Arbisoft
Django, Python, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Jira, API Design...
The Entertainer
Python, Flask, Selenium, Beautiful Soup, Google Maps API, Docker, API Design...
FiveRivers Technologies
Python, Django, AngularJS, JavaScript, Docker, Bootstrap, AWS Elastic Beanstalk...
Experience
- Django - 8 years
- REST APIs - 8 years
- Python - 8 years
- Django REST Framework - 7 years
- PostgreSQL - 4 years
- MySQL - 4 years
- Docker - 3 years
- Flask - 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Ubuntu, MacOS, PyCharm, Python, Django, Flask, Selenium, Docker
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a system designed to elevate basketball player games and is currently used by thousands of users in the US.
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer
2021 - PRESENT
Arbisoft
- Created and developed a system as part of our project for a school, including a student report management tool and a teacher reports and recommendations system.
- Conducted requirement analyses and breakdowns for these requirements.
- Designed and developed the architecture for back-end APIs.
Technologies: Django, Python, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Jira, API Design, Django REST Framework, Celery, Jenkins, Django ORM, Back-end, Sentry, New Relic, Elasticsearch, APIs, Ubuntu, MacOS, REST APIs, Python 3, Relational Databases, HTML, Amazon Web Services (AWS), SQL, REST, Agile Sprints, Mobile Back-end, Microservices, Swagger, React
Principal Software Engineer
2020 - 2021
The Entertainer
- Developed a scraper for Google Maps to scrap data for thousands of outlets.
- Designed and developed the APIs for various apps, including The Entertainer, Munch, and Blue Rewards.
- Created a gamification system for the Blue Rewards app.
Technologies: Python, Flask, Selenium, Beautiful Soup, Google Maps API, Docker, API Design, Flask-RESTful, APIs, MacOS, REST APIs, Jenkins, Jira, Back-end, Python 3, Relational Databases, SQL, SQLAlchemy, Web Scraping, REST, Scraping, Agile Sprints, Mobile Back-end, Microservices
Senior Software Engineer
2017 - 2020
FiveRivers Technologies
- Designed and developed a testing platform for basketball players.
- Set up a scalable system for a whole project using Jenkins and multiple AWS services.
- Conceived and developed a coaching panel for basketball coaches.
Technologies: Python, Django, AngularJS, JavaScript, Docker, Bootstrap, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon RDS, Jenkins, Sentry, Fabric, Supervisord, Celery, Redis, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Django ORM, Django REST Framework, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Back-end, Front-end, API Design, APIs, Containerization, Ubuntu, REST APIs, Jira, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Python 3, PostgreSQL, Docker Compose, Relational Databases, CSS, HTML, REST, Agile Sprints, Mobile Back-end, Swagger, HTML5
Software Engineer
2014 - 2016
QC-Technology
- Developed report generation systems using Highcharts, JavaScript, and Apache FOP for Powerstar.
- Wrote functional tests for WorkSTEPS and getTalent.
- Built a data migration tool for WorkSTEPS to migrate data from the old database to a new one using Python and Django.
Technologies: Python, Django, REST APIs, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, Highcharts, Selenium, Pytest, Jira, Jenkins, Flask, Django REST Framework, Django ORM, Celery, APIs, Ubuntu, MySQL, Apache FOP, Back-end, API Design, Python 3, Relational Databases, CSS, HTML, SQL, REST, Agile Sprints, Swagger, HTML5
Research Officer III
2014 - 2014
KICS UET Lahore
- Contributed to the documentation of different types of firewalls.
- Built a prototype for software-defined networking (SDN).
- Worked actively on the Urdu Search Engine project and documented its different modules and operations.
Technologies: Python, Ubuntu, REST APIs
Experience
WorkSTEPS
https://www.worksteps.com/WorkSTEPS is the leading national provider and pioneer of functional employment testing, safety, environmental, and occupational health services. It provides the facility to perform different tests against a job requirement.
Powerstar
Powerstar offers intelligent energy products and services that effectively measure and manage energy efficiency. The informed application of this knowledge improves operations and increases profitability while reducing environmental impact.
getTalent
The getTalent was an application designed for talent hunting. It provided an option to import candidates from multiple platforms like LinkedIn and create engagement lists to communicate with various candidates and find the best candidate. The project was shut down in 2018.
Ballogy
https://www.ballogy.com/Ballogy is a platform designed for basketball players to elevate their game using tests developed by certified coaches. It provides options to create friends and groups and share user progress with friends.
The ENTERTAINER
https://www.theentertainerme.com/The ENTERTAINER is a discount coupon app that offers a 2-for-1 offer on food and drinks, attractions and leisure, beauty and fitness, fashion and retail, and travel with monthly discounts, specials, and birthday offers.
Advance Learning World (ALW)
ALW is an educational platform designed for school students. It has two parts—B2C and B2B. It provides options for teachers to monitor their students' progress and use a recommendation system for weak students in their classes and school admin to monitor teachers' progress.
Hodos
Hodos is an app to provide analyses to your social accounts. Multiple social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were integrated into the system. Cron jobs were written to fetch data from those accounts and provide user analytics with that data.
Senior Viewer
A Python Django-based system designed for senior citizens to provide them different services like home services, legal services, house cleaning, repairing, etc. Service providers are registered in the system, and users can contact anyone from the list based on their location.
Dj-rest-filters
https://dj-rest-filters.readthedocs.io/Dj-rest-filters is an open-source Django Rest Framework filter back-end allowing users to declaratively add dynamic QuerySet filtering from URL parameters. It used Django Rest Framework serializers in the back-end, providing the same syntax as serializers. Users can validate their query parameter in the same way as they validate in their serializer, and it also provides a filtering mechanism against custom query par meters. It supports the DRF browsable API as well as Swagger.
Dynaconf
https://github.com/mhsiddiqui/django-dynaconfDjango-dynaconf is a Python Django-based opensource package that provides dynamic configuration for your Django project, which you can control from the Django admin. You can change your configurations at any time without any deployment.
Softappraisal
A platform to assist in everything related to real estate, from evaluating the property to buying or selling. Unique algorithms were designed to evaluate property value based on its attributes, and later that property can be sold using the same platform.
Education
2015 - 2018
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Punjab University - Lahore, Pakistan
2009 - 2013
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore - Lahore, Pakistan
Certifications
APRIL 2022 - PRESENT
MongoDB: The Complete Guide
Educative.io
APRIL 2022 - PRESENT
The Definitive Guide to MongoDB
Educative.io
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Beautiful Soup, Django ORM, Flask-RESTful, Google Maps API, SQLAlchemy, jQuery, Highcharts, Fabric, Facebook API, Python API, React
Tools
Celery, Git, PyCharm, Supervisord, Docker Compose, RabbitMQ, Pytest, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Jenkins, Sentry, Jira, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Languages
Python, Python 3, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, CSS, HTML5
Frameworks
Django, Flask, Django REST Framework, Bootstrap, Swagger, Selenium, AngularJS, JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Paradigms
REST, Microservices
Platforms
Docker, Ubuntu, MacOS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2, New Relic, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
PostgreSQL, Relational Databases, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
Other
Back-end, API Design, APIs, Mobile Back-end, Software Architecture, Containerization, Web Scraping, Scraping, Agile Sprints, Amazon RDS, Apache FOP, Front-end, System Design, FastAPI
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