Ishtehar Hussain Software Engineer - Toronto ON, Canada ishteharhussain@gmail.com ishteharhussain.com linkedin.com/in/ishteharhussain github.com/XEQTIONR EXPERIENCE Grin Inc, Sacramento (Remote) — Senior Software Engineer September 2023 - May 2024 / 9 months Contributed to various backend and frontend features and bugfixes. Participated in architecting solutions to various optimization and data integrity challenges. Relevant technologies include Laravel, Vue, Docker, Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS. Alley Interactive, New York (Remote) — Software Developer February 2021 - June 2023 / 2 years 5 months Participated in scrum teams working on various new and existing client projects. This involved designing systems and solutions using various tools such as WordPress and Laravel with reactive front-ends written in React or Vue. Revival Point LLC, New York (Remote) — Senior Full Stack Developer July 2019 - June 2020 / 1 year I led a small team to rebuild the internal reporting systems for the company into microservices. We also performed a complete DevOps overhaul which included migrating to AWS, setting up automatic periodic backups, setting up error logging and notifications, setting up additional dev and staging environments and CI pipelines. This improved the accuracy of sales reports by 10% and ROAS reports by 15%. LeverageIT, Toronto — Senior Software Developer May 2018 - April 2019 / 1 year Led a small team in the development of apps and microservice based solutions for our clients. Backends were usually written in Laravel or WordPress with Angular or Vue front-ends. These were various 3rd party APIs and services. Provisioned and maintained resources for deployment. I was able to get the team to adopt GitFlow which reduced merge conflicts by 50% and sped up our release cycles. Ariad Communications, Toronto — Full Stack Developer August 2017 - April 2018 / 8 months Worked in a small team to develop and maintain medium sized sites on WordPress and small microsites on Laravel/Lumen framework. Performed various DevOps tasks such as setting up servers, backing up databases, writing CI pipelines. Intertrac Nano, Dhaka (Remote - Pro Bono) — Software Engineer November 2016 - April-2017 / 6 months I worked with the business owner to design the database schema and build and deploy a small Laravel app, a small inventory management system. The front-end was written mainly in Vue. The prototype is available on my GitHub. York University, Toronto — Full Stack Web Developer January 2014 - November 2016 / 2 years 11 months Built and deployed features on various school sites mainly written in WordPress. Wrote simple bash/PHP scripts and cron jobs for tasks such as periodic data backups, sanitization of input files, calculations on simple data, etc. SKILLS Back end development: - PHP / Laravel / WordPress / MySQL / ElasticSearch / Docker / GoLang / Objective C / Redis / PHPUnit Front end development: - HTML / CSS / JavaScript / TypeScript / React / Vue / Angular / InertiaJS / JQuery / MUI / Bootstrap / Tailwind DevOps: - AWS / Bash / Docker / Firebase / DigitalOcean / Buddy / GitHub actions Version Control: - Git EDUCATION Bachelor of Science - Computer Science York University PROJECTS - Stripekart (Stripekart.com) - An e-commerce store written in Laravel / React / InertiaJS, hosted on a LAMP stack with Redis used for caching and queues and ElasticSearch for text search. - DaGameLeauge (DGLcore.com) - A non-profit founded in 2005 which organized various esport LAN tournaments and later online tournaments. - Cloudshapes - A location based social media app for iOS devices written in Objective C.