Full Stack Engineer with 3+ years of experience building, optimizing, and maintaining high-performance MERN and Next.js applications across Banking, Finance, E-commerce, and Healthcare domains. Skilled in responsive UI development, scalable REST APIs, database schema optimization, and performance tuning. Strong focus on modern React/Next.js features (SSR/App Router), secure authentication/authorization (JWT, OAuth2, RBAC), and CI/CD automation with monitoring. Proven impact improving backend response times, reducing bundle sizes, and boosting SEO discoverability through server-side rendering and performance best practices.

AFAQUE SHAIKH

Full Stack Engineer with 3+ years of experience building, optimizing, and maintaining high-performance MERN and Next.js applications across Banking, Finance, E-commerce, and Healthcare domains. Skilled in responsive UI development, scalable REST APIs, database schema optimization, and performance tuning. Strong focus on modern React/Next.js features (SSR/App Router), secure authentication/authorization (JWT, OAuth2, RBAC), and CI/CD automation with monitoring. Proven impact improving backend response times, reducing bundle sizes, and boosting SEO discoverability through server-side rendering and performance best practices.

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Full Stack Engineer with 3+ years of experience building, optimizing, and maintaining high-performance MERN and Next.js applications across Banking, Finance, E-commerce, and Healthcare domains. Skilled in responsive UI development, scalable REST APIs, database schema optimization, and performance tuning.

Strong focus on modern React/Next.js features (SSR/App Router), secure authentication/authorization (JWT, OAuth2, RBAC), and CI/CD automation with monitoring. Proven impact improving backend response times, reducing bundle sizes, and boosting SEO discoverability through server-side rendering and performance best practices.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Aress Software
December 1, 2024 - Present
Led end-to-end redevelopment and architecture of a core e-commerce platform using React, Node.js, and Express in collaboration with design, QA, and product teams. Designed and optimized MongoDB schemas and query patterns, and built RESTful APIs with Express.js/Node.js, integrating secure authentication and authorization. Implemented SSR in Next.js for SEO-critical pages, improving discoverability and page metrics. Optimized frontend performance by 48% using Next.js SSR, image lazy-loading, and route-based code splitting, contributing to a 15% increase in organic SEO traffic. Architected and deployed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with automated testing, staged deployments, and Sentry monitoring.
Software Engineer at Concentrix
September 1, 2023 - December 1, 2024
Engineered a scalable React component library using TypeScript and TailwindCSS across banking and tax platforms, reducing UI development time by 30%. Optimized Express.js APIs via middleware refactoring, MongoDB query tuning, and indexing, improving response times by 70% (600ms to 180ms). Refactored legacy MERN applications using code splitting, lazy loading, and React optimizations, reducing bundle size by 45%. Developed secure authentication and authorization using JWT, OAuth2, and RBAC with Zod-based validation.

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at JDC Bytco College
January 1, 2022 - March 1, 2022

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Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Software & Internet, Professional Services