Khalid Jameer
I'm a Software Engineer
About
I'm Khalid Jameer, a software engineer from Queens, New York. I have primarily worked on creating educational tools in JS and Python. In addition to teaching fullstack web development, I have been working with a small team to continuously build and maintain codetrack.dev, a public platform designed for coders for progress tracking and supports consistency with their long term projects. A recent project that I am proud to share is my enhancements on Codetrack. I have built out new features and refactored the code, as well as initiating and ensuring the completion of the API documentation site. I also refactored large portions of the API to adhere to contemporary code standards and boost performance. Making these changes was very fun, and they propelled me to study and understand the existing codebase deeply. Furthermore, I learned to proactively and independently conduct research and implement new best practices, and made critical API design decisions that would impact the future of the app. I am happy to instill this positive and inquisitive engineering culture at my workplace, and my students have also begun contributing to Codetrack under my mentorship. This has given me the opportunity to incorporate and emphasize a product-oriented mindset to our future work and projects, as well as gain valuable experiences leading an engineering team.
Skills
Resume
Education
Bachelor's of Arts: Sociology
2016 - 2020
CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY
Software Engineering Certificate
January 2022 - June 2022
Fullstack Academy
Learned professional standards for software development with JavaScript, React, Node.js, SQL, and Express.js. Gained experience with collaboration tools like GitHub, and Git.
Projects
CodeTrack.dev
- Developing documentation for codebase and contribution to enhance team processes
- Platform that tracks user's coding learning and progress by connecting with external learning tools
- Maintaining code hygiene and best practices by incorporating linting for codebase
- Collaborating with founder to address user pain points with feedback and incorporating new information into feature roadmap
- Building and updating SQL queries to deliver and update database data in a performant manner for PostgreSQL database
- Integrating OpenAI into codebase to provide code reviews for hundreds of users
- Troubleshooting bugs to increase uptime and restore service during outages
Professional Experience
Software Engineering Instructor
Jan 2024 - Present
Pursuit, New York, NY
- Teaching professional standards and best practices in web development using Typescript, React, and Node.js
- Assisting students with their projects through direct mentorship to assure projects are delivered on time and with high quality
- Developing Python automation scripts to test students' code for debugging purposes
- Maintaining and structuring data used to keep track of student progress
Software Engineer
May 2023 - Jan 2024
New York City Department of Education, New York, NY
- Slashed annual hosting costs by 50% by revamping web hosting with Google Cloud Platform.
- Delivered a completely redesigned site, reducing requests for site navigation assistance by 60%.
- Collaborated with designer to create designs for site and ideate on site presentation
- Utilized React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, CSS, HTML5, Next.js, Figma, and Styled Components to create, deploy, and maintain a website aimed at strengthening information delivery.
- Delivered custom CI/CD pipeline that streamlined automated deployments, allowing non-technical client to update site on the fly without downtime
- Performed migration of old codebase to Next.js, improving initial page load by 11%
Portfolio
Check out some of the projects I've made! I've included projects of varying sizes as well as designs and learning tools.
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- Large Projects
- Small Projects
