Shahbaz – Typescript, React, Python

The world's largest group-buying website offers daily super discounts and coupons for customers to purchase collectively. Founded in Chicago, USA, in 2008, and then quickly expanded to Boston, New York, and Toronto.

• Owned end-to-end development of large-scale React/Next.js + TypeScript features for the company’s core platform, supporting millions of users in production.
• Designed reusable component architectures and state management for complex, high-traffic user flows.
• Improved frontend performance and UX through code splitting, lazy loading, and rendering optimizations, reducing load times by 30% and bounce rates by 20%.
• Led API-first design using REST and GraphQL to enable scalable frontend-backend communication.
• Built performance-critical backend services with Node.js and Python/Django.
• Integrated AI-driven recommendation systems to personalize experiences and increase conversion.
• Deployed and operated services on AWS with CI/CD automation, Redis caching, and Docker, ensuring high availability.
• Served as technical lead, mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions for high-traffic systems.

Shahbaz created several applications while working at a highly skilled tech firm that provides businesses with on-demand software solutions.

• Built and maintained full-stack applications using Node.js, React, Angular, Vue.js, Python/Django, and Spring Boot, delivering features end-to-end for multiple client projects.
• Designed reusable React component patterns with TypeScript and integrated them with REST APIs for data-heavy views and authentication flows.
• Improved UI performance by refactoring legacy code and optimizing state management, reducing page load times by 30%.
• Led integrations with third-party APIs and internal services to enhance application functionality and user experience.
• Built and deployed cloud-native services on AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, improving release speed and reliability.
• Developed Ethereum smart contracts and Web3 applications, enabling secure wallet and token interactions.
• Implemented microservices architectures with Terraform to automate infrastructure and improve scalability.

The leading entertainment discovery and ticketing platform serving millions of users across the Middle East and beyond. It enables customers to discover, book, and purchase tickets for a wide range of events, including concerts, festivals, sports, attractions, tours, and business gatherings, through a seamless online experience.

• Developed and owned high-traffic features using Vue.js, Node.js/Express, GraphQL/REST, and MongoDB, delivering end-to-end solutions from design to production.
• Built modular frontend components and API-first backend services supporting event discovery, booking, and checkout workflows.
• Improved performance and UX through code splitting, lazy loading, and rendering optimizations.
• Designed and optimized MongoDB data models for high concurrency and reliability.
• Containerized and deployed applications using Docker on AWS, ensuring scalability and high availability.
• Automated deployments with CI/CD pipelines and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver features on time.

Shabaz created several applications while working at a multinational IT consulting firm headquartered in Noida. The company has offices in 60 countries and employs over 220,000 people.

• Built responsive React user interfaces using JSX and CSS modules, ensuring cross-browser consistency and improved performance.
• Integrated frontend components with REST APIs using Axios and Redux Thunk to streamline data flow and responsiveness.
• Containerized frontend applications with Docker to improve build consistency and deployment speed.
• Improved debugging practices and Git workflows, reducing issue resolution time by 20%.