Umer Hassan

Senior Software Engineer / Front-End Engineer

About

A creative thinker, adept in software development and well versed in working with various web, mobile & back-end technologies following the modern patterns and tooling. Experienced in gathering requirements & working with the design + product teams, conducting the code reviews and working in agile environments. Quick learner & adopter of new technologies on the go.

Work Experience

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023

Senior Software Engineer at Entertainment Partners

Remote

Worked on a film and TV budgeting software used in the Hollywood studios. The app is used by studios like Warner Bros, Apple, Disney etc. for planning and budgeting movie/video productions.

Tech: ReactJS, Node, CSS, Webpack, TypeScript, Electron, Yarn, Jest, babel, ESLint

Oct 2022 – Sep 2023

Senior Software Engineer at eBay

San Jose / Remote

Part of the Self-Servicing team to develop Post-Purchase UX and experiences—returns, shipping labels, messaging, etc.

Tech: React, Node, Express, Storybook, LESS, Webpack

Jun 2021 – Oct 2022

Senior Software Engineer at Rivian

Palo Alto / Remote

Part of the Transaction to Delivery team, contributing to the customer journey (T2D App) for new vehicle purchases.

Tech: React, Redux, TypeScript, GraphQL, styled-components, AWS, Terraform, Storybook, Lerna, Material UI, Node.js, Redux Thunk

Sep 2018 – Jun 2020

Senior Software Engineer at Bank of America

Charlotte, NC / Remote

Worked with the 'Online Banking' team for Transfers & Payments, Credit Cards and Mortgage flows.

Tech: React, Redux, JavaScript, ES6, Jest, AWS, Spring Boot, JIRA

Sep 2016 – Sep 2018

Senior Software Engineer at The Washington Post

Washington DC / Remote

Worked on Post’s project for visualizing financial and U.S. policy impact reports, including charts, data visualizations, and geospatial maps.

Tech: AngularJS, D3, Node.js, Redux, JavaScript, AWS

2015 – 2016

Software Developer at Plibees / Panacloud / Freelance

Remote / Karachi, PK

Worked on variety of mobile and full-stack projects including freelance gigs.

Tech: React, Node.js, MongoDB, Express, Passport.js, Socket.IO, Jasmine

2013 – 2014

Web Developer at Fiverr / Freelancer

Remote

Freelanced for over 50+ web projects including full-stack applications and WordPress customizations.

Tech: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap

Awards

eCompetencia Speed Programming (3rd position)

2013

Iqra University,
Karachi

Engineering Innovation Award

2018

The Washington
Post

Mountain Mover Award

2020

Bank Of America

Extra-Curricular Activities

LLMs | Ollama | AI Coding Tools - Actively exploring and leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), local AI tools like Ollama, and advanced AI coding assistants to enhance productivity, automate workflows, and accelerate software development as a modern engineer.

HackerRank | SPOJ | TopCoder | CodeChef | Project Euler - I solve & practice problems over these platforms to improve my Data Structures & Algorithms Knowledge.

Quora | Medium | Hacker News | StackOverflow | Product Hunt - Regular reader/visitor and minor contributor there.

Education

2012 — 2015 — BS (CS), Iqra University, Karachi, PK