Software Engineer based in Halifax, Canada, specializing in building interactive web experiences and reliable infrastructure for product teams. I focus on performance, observability, and developer-friendly workflows while shipping user-facing features end-to-end. Currently leading redesign and platform work at Instatus, including dashboard performance improvements, monitoring systems, interactive marketing pages with 3D/motion, and maintaining an official Terraform provider in Go. I enjoy translating designs and constraints into responsive, accessible interfaces that users can trust.

Baraa Hassan

Software Engineer based in Halifax, Canada, specializing in building interactive web experiences and reliable infrastructure for product teams. I focus on performance, observability, and developer-friendly workflows while shipping user-facing features end-to-end. Currently leading redesign and platform work at Instatus, including dashboard performance improvements, monitoring systems, interactive marketing pages with 3D/motion, and maintaining an official Terraform provider in Go. I enjoy translating designs and constraints into responsive, accessible interfaces that users can trust.

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Software Engineer based in Halifax, Canada, specializing in building interactive web experiences and reliable infrastructure for product teams. I focus on performance, observability, and developer-friendly workflows while shipping user-facing features end-to-end.

Currently leading redesign and platform work at Instatus, including dashboard performance improvements, monitoring systems, interactive marketing pages with 3D/motion, and maintaining an official Terraform provider in Go. I enjoy translating designs and constraints into responsive, accessible interfaces that users can trust.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft Zamalek
July 1, 2023 - October 1, 2023
Contributed to a browser extension integrating Copilot-powered assistance into the Microsoft Edge shopping experience. Built internal debugging and testing tooling for AI features, which was adopted across three teams.
Software Engineer at Instatus
August 1, 2022 - Present
Led a full redesign of the dashboard, restructuring navigation to surface hard-to-find pages and actions. Improved performance by cutting page load times and reduced related support tickets, while increasing customer satisfaction. Built Cron Monitoring to track thousands of scheduled jobs and expose processing time and detailed logs for failure and delay diagnosis. Developed Instatus v2 marketing pages (landing, pricing, integrations, customers) using Next.js with interactive 3D (React Three Fiber/Drei) plus motion (Framer Motion), Rive, and other motion-rich techniques. Owned and maintained the official Instatus Terraform provider in Go, adding resources and keeping it aligned with the public API to manage status pages, components, and team members as infrastructure-as-code. Designed a team activity log on ClickHouse to support fast queries over millions of records. Shipped the Instatus Updates mobile app to iOS and Android from a single React Native (Expo) codebase. Shipped user-faci
Software Engineer Intern at Instatus
July 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022
Built a bulk-action feature enabling users to update, export, and download hundreds of records at once in CSV, JSON, and other supported formats. Improved domain customization tooling by adding stronger validation flows to reduce user errors and improve configuration quality.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) at Dalhousie University
September 1, 2026 - August 24, 2026
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Software Engineering) at German International University
September 1, 2020 - July 1, 2024

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Software & Internet, Education