Sami Shukri
Verified Expert in Engineering
React and Full-stack Developer
Denver, CO, United States
Toptal member since September 28, 2021
Sami is a full-stack developer with 8+ years of experience, specializing in building front ends using React, React Native, and GraphQL. He excels at converting any design to a pixel-perfect implementation using React or React Native. Sami has built web and mobile apps as a sole developer, team member, or team leader, filling whichever role was needed. He has also designed back ends for simple applications using SQL, Firebase, and Hasura.
Portfolio
Experience
- React Native - 10 years
- Web App Development - 10 years
- React - 8 years
- TypeScript - 8 years
- SQL - 8 years
- GraphQL - 6 years
- User Interface (UI) - 5 years
- User Experience (UX) - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
IntelliJ IDEA, Hasura, GraphQL, React, React Native, Prettier, TypeScript, MacOS, Python
The most amazing...
...project I've done was design fully a drag & drop, real-time analytics solution that could scale to 5 TB per month of ingested data on a single node.
Work Experience
Senior Engineering Manager
Carrier Global
- Led the effort behind a custom, branded design system that enabled the launch of 12 apps in a single year. Supporting over a million users of Carrier across multiple products and brands.
- Built and led teams from the ground up to develop and support existing products.
- Handled multiple major outages the company experienced due to the iOS 18 rollout, ensuring app replacements were developed in record time to reconnect users disconnected from their system.
Owner
Sparkcube LLC
- Started an education service where I helped engineers with over 200 hours in sessions in the web development field.
- Built a Decentraland game, which got 500-1,000 daily active players.
- Developed a research platform for a client that saved the client over 40 hours a week on data organization and formatting.
- Created an NFT development service where I built NFT collections for clients and made custom Solidity contracts.
- Developed a video education platform where customers pay for a monthly or yearly subscription using Stripe to access courses and educational material.
- Developed two React-based games for the Hathora open-source project.
- Released an AI chat app to the store that reached over 1,000 downloads daily and led to revenues of over $10,000.
Senior React Native Developer
Carrier - Residential - Mobile Apps Product Management
- Stabilized Carrier's flagship app, which was experiencing many issues. Reduced reported bugs by over 50%.
- Established the homeowner app team process and QA process to ensure 100% E2E coverage.
- Increased release cycles from a single release a quarter to a release every two weeks to ensure quick bug turnaround.
Full-stack Engineer
Sibros
- Designed a real-time analytics solution that reduced debugging time for client engineers from weeks to hours.
- Led a mobile development project with four other engineers to build a connected vehicle application that allows clients' end-users to interact with their vehicles using both the internet and BLE.
- Built the front-end deployment pipeline using GitLab CI/CD, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront.
- Implemented NX to put all front-end code in a monorepo, including React and React Native projects and libraries.
- Designed GraphQL back ends using Hasura and PostgreSQL for different client applications.
- Developed custom native modules for a React Native app to better integrate music and call management into a mobile app.
- Collaborated closely with clients and 3rd-party vendors to coordinate integration across different services.
CTO | Co-founder
Trippost
- Led the revamp of a mobile app to enhance the user experience.
- Built an analytics solution to help users track marketing referrals.
- Oversaw the development and release of the app into the App Store.
Software Engineer
Stockwell
- Developed a delivery app used by the company's drivers to navigate to and place products in stores.
- Collaborated with warehouse management and drivers to improve the product.
- Went out into the field with drivers to capture feedback and improve the user experience.
Associate Senior Software Engineer
Cerner
- Designed a metric automation solution for the LightsOn team, which reduced the time to add new metrics from three sprints to a single sprint.
- Led the development of a customizable dashboard for client executives to track OKR items.
- Introduced React into the solution tech stack, which improved development time for new features relative to Angular.
Experience
Restockwell
TypeScript in Blockchain
https://github.com/Shooksie/ts-sf-chainFlame.js
https://github.com/Shooksie/Flame.jsChatGPT clone
The app was developed in one day and has achieved a total of nine thousand users with over 100 purchases in under a month.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Missouri - Kansas City, MO, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Styled-jsx, React Native for Web, D3.js, Node.js, Web3.js, MobX
Tools
Docker Compose, Expo, PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, Prettier, Amazon Cognito, Plotly, Canvas, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Figma
Languages
GraphQL, TypeScript, Python 3, JavaScript, SQL, CSS, HTML, C++, Python, Solidity
Frameworks
React Native, Next.js, Django, Redux, Angular, JavaScript MVC, Flask
Storage
Hasura, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse
Paradigms
Agile, Scrum, Database Design, Serverless Architecture, Management
Platforms
Docker, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Android, Mobile, Windows, MacOS, Mapbox, iOS
Other
Software Development, Web App Development, Mobile App Development, Front-end, OpenAI, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM applications, FastAPI, Supabase, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Mobile UI, Full-stack, Web Scraping, Back-end, User Experience (UX), Mobile Apps, Timescale, APIs, Bluetooth, Styled-components, Data Visualization, Mobile UX, System Architecture, Open-source LLMs, Multistage LLM Chains, Large-scale Projects, Startups, Early-stage Startups, LLM Based Web scraping, User Interface (UI), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Last Mile Logistics, BizCharts, Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), Education, Web Video, Solana, SaaS, Design Systems, Architecture, Apollo
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