I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of building scalable, high-performance web applications, specializing in the MERN stack, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. I love turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable software and mentoring teammates along the way. I collaborate with product and design teams to deliver impact-driven features, drive performance improvements, and align technical decisions with business goals. I enjoy learning new tech and building reusable components and services.

Fahd Hassan

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of building scalable, high-performance web applications, specializing in the MERN stack, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. I love turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable software and mentoring teammates along the way. I collaborate with product and design teams to deliver impact-driven features, drive performance improvements, and align technical decisions with business goals. I enjoy learning new tech and building reusable components and services.

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I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of building scalable, high-performance web applications, specializing in the MERN stack, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. I love turning complex requirements into robust, maintainable software and mentoring teammates along the way.

I collaborate with product and design teams to deliver impact-driven features, drive performance improvements, and align technical decisions with business goals. I enjoy learning new tech and building reusable components and services.

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Language

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer
October 1, 2024 - Present
Contract role delivering 15+ scalable features using Node.js, React, REST APIs and GraphQL, increasing API throughput by 30%. Refactored legacy systems and led backend upgrades, reducing technical debt by 20%. Designed and deployed event-driven microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and RabbitMQ. Implemented Redis caching to improve DB response times by 60%. Led cross-team integration with external APIs using OAuth and JWT auth flows. Implemented GraphQL endpoints, reducing over-fetching and improving frontend performance by 35%. Used New Relic and Datadog to identify bottlenecks and optimize performance, achieving around 40% improvements. Wrote unit/integration tests with Jest and Capybara (90%+ test coverage). Mentored juniors and participated in sprint planning, retrospectives, and stakeholder demos.
Senior Software Engineer
August 1, 2022 - October 1, 2024
End-to-end delivery of core features (Node, React, GraphQL) ensuring technical alignment with business goals and on-time delivery in a fast-paced startup. Improved reliability with 90%+ test coverage and clean code with no offenses.
Senior Software Engineer at Spocket
October 1, 2024 - Present
Contract Senior Software Engineer delivering 15+ scalable features using Node, React, REST APIs & GraphQL; led backend upgrade, implemented event-driven microservices with Docker/Kubernetes and RabbitMQ; added Redis caching, improved API performance; integrated external APIs with OAuth and JWT; developed GraphQL endpoints and improved frontend performance; implemented tests with Jest and Capybara; mentored juniors and collaborated across teams.
Senior Software Engineer at Spocket
August 1, 2022 - October 1, 2024
Full-time role focusing on end-to-end feature delivery with Node, React & GraphQL; improved test coverage to 90%+, achieved high uptime; built UI library with Storybook; reduced frontend bundle size via lazy loading; ensured 99.9% uptime and fast pages; led CI/CD improvements with GitLab CI/CD and cross-team architecture discussions.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore
July 1, 2021 - August 1, 2022
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BS-CS) at University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore
July 1, 2021 - August 1, 2022

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services