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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Team Leadership: Led a 4-person development team to create and launch a successful NFT trading platform, attracting 60,000 users within two months and securing $400k in additional funding.Application Architecture: Spearheaded the refactoring of a monolithic React application into a decoupled Next.js app and Nest.js backend. Compute heavy operations are handed off to a self-hosted Node/Express server to achieve load time improvements of 200ms, a 10x decrease in application crashes, and allowed expansion of caching and memory strategies.Infrastructure Optimization: Successfully migrated hosting infrastructure from AWS EC instances to Vercel serverless hosting, achieving a 30% reduction in monthly operational expenses.Architecture Leadership: Led the redesign of a 5-year-old React application, transitioning from legacy Redux to Redux Toolkit and from class to functional components, resulting in a 50% reduction in bug reports and improved development experience.Microservices Architecture: Developed a Nest.js microservice setup, merging three products, incorporating OAuth, and transitioning from proprietary databases (e.g., 8Base, MongoDB Atlas) to a unified on-prem MongoDB instance.Backend Optimization & Scalability: Implemented JWT authentication and split Express.js endpoints across three Node.js servers, managed via a weighted Nginx load balancer, showcasing the ability to design systems for performance and scalability.Advanced State Management: Created a sophisticated state-management system featuring an abstract analytics layer for seamless integration with various analytics platforms and provides granular feature usage tracking.

Chicago, Us

Simplifying Co-Living. SubletInn provides a medium for young professionals to find comfortable and convenient community-based housing in Chicago.• Helped us go through a successful seed round.• Focuses on building out the property management hub and resident facing application.• Asked questions and took ownership.• Diagnosed and massively improved performance issues by 300% with Chrome DevTools, VS Code, and React Profiler.• Effectively separate container and presentational components, manage state in Redux, create new actions and reducers, effectively develop on our own customized Material UI Styleguide Library and use client side routing and page layout techniques.- Built systems to manage move-in and move-out schedules for 50+ rooms- Ensured consistent branding through webapp and social media platforms - Created content to be distributed throughout Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. This included short-form and long-form videos, podcast interviews, and blogposts.- Automated parts of the company's marketing funnel ranging from scripts and crawlers, as well as PPC optimization algorithms for Facebook and Google Ads. These were built using Python, JavaScript, and React.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Configured a Zygote stage APK for our wallboards (~20,000 devices) in the field to run tests against our server before pulling, verifying, and installing other product APKs.- Fixed Android memory issues caused by the existing Fragment/Activity structure, leading to crashes and incorrect data states which affected all of our 140,000 on-field devices.- Reconfigured our Gradle processes to a tree structure to more effectively install dependencies, ensuring our system keys remained secret during installation, improving overall stability during product operation.

Grinnell, Ia, Us

Grinnell Publications Lead:Lead three developers in creating the MVP for the Grinnell Publications app for the greater Grinnell student community.It will allow students to browse and read all publications funded by Grinnell College's Student Publications and Radio Committee (SPARC). This includes the Scarlet & Black (S&B), the B&S, the GUM, Cyclone, etc...- Built front end templates to be used throughout the app to display the publication data. - Created a Model View Projector android project model to follow, allowing my team to work asynchronously pieces of the app concurrently. - Lead the team through a SCRUM framework, using Trello and Slack to keep our tasks and communication streamline.- Provided feedback through peer code reviews and made sure the pull requests contained quality, well documented code.Grinnell Events (goo.gl/rtrCkW)An android app created for sharing events to the Grinnell College student body. The app displays all Grinnell College sponsored events on campus and allows you to sort by date, and add the event to your calendar.- Sweep through app to make sure all design aspects are consistent and up to date to Google's latest material design patterns- Parsed legacy code to make it modular and most recent with the latest Google support libraries.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Developed an online interactive robot to help high school students find colleges of best fit - Designed a Django backend API to securely handle front-end calls for college and student information- Organized a modular React.js app so administrators can easily add functionality for students

Chicago, Il, Us

I was an administration intern for 1871, a Chicago incubator. It was a fantastic experience that not only connected me to the technology scene in Chicago, but gave me insight to the inner workings of organizations that empower innovation.- Connected company founders to the proper Venture Capital firm that fit best with their industry. - Automated welcome emails for new companies coming into the incubator.- Designed a mentor scheduling program to help companies schedule times to meet with business mentors and Venture Capital firms. - Help draft a scholarship to help people of minority get into the incubator program and help them create their business.

https://github.com/YazanKittaneh/MISTdroid• Create an evaluation function which takes user defined functions stored in Directed acyclic graph and produces RGB values to be passed on to the rendering engine. • Implemented an algorithm to evaluate a Directed acyclic graph in time in O(nlogn) run-time.• Optimize the rendering engine to run on an asynchronous processes for faster rendering on the Android Mobile system.

Throwing myself in the fast-paced firm, I was quickly able to understand the benefits of being flexible. Starting off learning a new tool, I had to adapt to each new task given to me. I had to quickly figure out the most efficient way to do each type of drawing as each project proved to be its own challenge. I learned a vast amounts about best practices at an actual architecture firm, but most importantly, I was able to apply my architecture and general business knowledge to adapt to each problem I faced.- Assisted Architects prepare professional grade blueprints to present to clients. - Organized and filed two-years worth of section, layout and various other drawings on the company's server. - Drew porch designs and renovations aligned to Chicago Code used for projects. - Transcribed residential dimensions into template drawings to be used by the rest of the office.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science

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