Salmaan Saeed

Alumnus of NJIT

Contact & Profiles:

I'm an alumnus of New Jersey Institute of Technology who majored in Information Technology. I'm interested in web development, DevOps, and data analytics.

Work Experience

Front-end Developer May 2023 – Aug 2023
Shoptaki New York City, NY

• Planned out and organized tasks in the Kanban board to improve developer productivity
• Refactored the front-end to help improve the maintainability and readability of the codebase
• Documented the front-end to help developers understand the architecture of the application
• Implemented CI/CD to ensure that a quality product is shipped to the users
• Collaborated with my team members to solve issues, plan out project tasks, and review pull requests

Senior Front-end Developer (Capstone Project) Jan 2023 – May 2023
Jabil Newark, NJ

• Redesigned the front-end with React and Bootstrap to improve the maintainability of the project
• Utilized components to comply with separation of concerns, and code reusability
• Documented the GUI architecture so that new front-end developers can understand how it works
• Utilized the Kanban board to maximize efficiency in developing features with the team
• Collaborated in SCRUM meetings to aid team coordination, and improve developer productivity

Relevant Projects

Movie Recommendation System (PyTorch, Python, Tkinter) October 10, 2024 – Present
Git Repository: Movie Recommendation System

• Configured the model to be used for training the movie entries
• Programmed the process of training the model with the movies and validation datasets
• Produced a CLI and GUI script to generate a validation dataset based on which movie the user chooses
• Retrieved the top 1000 IMDB movies dataset from Kaggle

Steam Game Review (Systems Integration Class) Sep 2023 – Dec 2023
Git Repository: Steam Game Review

• Communicated and coordinated with my team members with finishing the deliverables for the project
• Documented the technical parts of the project to aid my team members with development and configuration
• Practiced with my team members in order to prepare for the demonstration of the system to my professor
• Programmed user authentication where users can register, login, and logout their account
• Setup HTTPS in order to improve the security of the website by encrypting web traffic

Notebook (Django, React, MySQL, SQLite, Python, JavaScript, Docker) Aug 2022 – Sep 2023
Git Repository: Notebook

• Utilized CI/CD with GitHub workflows to automate unit testing and linting of the code base
• Implemented REST API for the back-end so it can communicate with the front-end easily
• Programmed user authentication where users can register, login, and logout their account
• Composed unit tests for the REST APIs to ensure that the APIs are stable and work properly