Rashid Wakileh
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Rashid is a passionate lead front-end engineer. He is an expert in test-driven development, and has extensive experience in leading teams to create software solutions. He enjoys using JavaScript frameworks and thoroughly testing all aspects of his code.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Sublime Text, WebStorm, Git, Linux, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've created is a front-end performance tracking system featuring code optimized for various types of Internet connections.
Work Experience
Lead JavaScript Engineer (Consultant)
ADP
- Led a team of JavaScript developers in an Agile development environment to build the next generation of products and services.
- Designed, developed, and maintained a modular and test-driven AngularJS framework used by feature-level teams to consolidate duplicate code and to enable a faster development environment.
- Developed all code using Extreme Programming techniques including test-driven development, pair programming in an open space, the Pomodoro technique, and daily standups.
- Helped the QA teams with development and setup of automation framework standards.
- Collaborated across teams to improve process, design, and architecture.
Front-end Lead Developer (Consultant)
iCapitalNetwork
- Led the development of a single-page application.
- Set up the entire front-end framework to include all the tools needed to help rapid development while maintaining integrity. Used RequireJS, Jasmine, Karma, and Protractor.
- Designed the application’s RESTful APIs to be consumed by the front-end framework.
- Utilized HTML5, CSS3 (LESS), and Bootstrap to build cutting edge and responsive pages.
Senior Front-end Engineer
AOL Inc. (patch.com)
- Developed and optimized the front-end framework using RequireJS, Handlebars.js, and Backbone.js, to maximize the user experience.
- Designed and developed a front-end operations-based system allowing our front-end developers to pick and choose which elements and widgets are displayed on any given page based on user operation permissions.
- Enabled the front-end framework along with the Play 2.0 framework (Scala) to set pages viewed to a “Push State” without additional work.
- Wrote the application controllers in the Play 2.0 framework using Scala.
- Kept track of platform performance from the end user perspective by collecting data from user browsers.
- Tracked metrics including time to first byte, page load times, and bandwidth in order to optimize the code for various types of Internet connections.
- Designed and developed a JavaScript module to escalate conduction of A/B testing across the entire site.
Experience
Front-end Performance Tracking System
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, HTML, SQL, PHP, Java, Ruby, C++, C, Scala, Less
Frameworks
AngularJS, Bootstrap, Express.js, Protractor, Ionic, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Express.io, Redux, Jest, Play Framework
Libraries/APIs
Underscore.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, RequireJS, AngularUI, D3.js, Handlebars, React, Socket.IO, Node.js
Tools
Chrome Developer Tools, WebStorm, Bower, Grunt, Sublime Text, Adobe Photoshop, Karma, Git
Platforms
Drupal, Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, Apache Kafka
Other
Software Engineering, Software Development, Front-end, Front-end Development, WebSockets
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Test Automation, Extreme Programming, REST
Storage
Redis, MongoDB, Memcached, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Brigham Young University - Provo, Utah
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring