Yusuf Sultan

Software Engineer & UI Designer 7 years of professional experience

United Arab Emirates

Work Experience

May. 2019 — present

Saved a business $5-10k/year on their new website’s cloud costs within weeks of joining.
Implemented a containerized microservices back-end using Nest.js, GraphQL, EdgeDB, Postgres, Google Cloud (+ Firebase), Docker, gRPC, and more.
Built 2 web applications with Next.js, Remix.js, Tailwind, Relay, Cloudflare, and other tech.
Developed 3 mobile applications with TypeScript, React Native, GraphQL/Relay, Figma.
Interviewed and screened candidates for a software engineering role.

Jul. 2023 — Apr. 2024

Established company’s internal coding standards and best practices, and influenced the company’s engineering direction.
Re-containerized Canvas LMS with Docker, and implemented a company-internal hypervisor to make deploying a new Canvas LMS instance the matter of a few clicks.
Developed multiple back-end software using Python, Redis, PostgreSQL, and more.
Developed 3 web applications using Remix.js, Tailwind, Relay, Cloudflare, and other tech.
Developed infrastructure on AWS with technologies including S3, CodePipeline, SQS/SNS, Load Balancers, AMIs, VPCs, which are designed and deployed with CloudFormation (IaC)
Written design documents for big and small systems/features on Google Docs, supplemented with charts made using Figma and/or Figjam, and held design reviews with the team.

Feb. 2017 — Apr. 2017 | Aug. 2018 — Apr. 2019

Developed University of Aleppo’s website which allows people to navigate various information about the university and its staff, using PHP/Laravel and Vue.js.
Implemented an internal tool to manage employees’ access to the company’s GitHub organization using PHP/Laravel, Vue.js and GitHub’s API.
Maintained deployments of internal FOSS the company uses, on its Linux cloud computers.

2021

Developed a platform (in a partnership) that ‘digitalizes’ university and other students’ access to learning material and makes the material significantly cheaper and much more easily accessible
It consisted of 2 web applications made using Nuxt.js, 1 back-end made using Nest.js and PostgreSQL, and a mobile application made using Flutter.
Organized the project in a monorepo up on GitHub.
Designed high-fidelity user-interface designs using Figma prior to implementation. In addition, I designed and built custom payment system to circumvent the absence of online payment infrastructure in Syria.

Built bbswitch-monitor, a C++ Qt-based Linux application that allowes bbswitch users to monitor and control their computer’s GPU power status.
Built vuex-electron-ipc, a library that makes it easy to share Vuex state across multiple Electron windows using IPC.
Built vue-materialize-datatable, a slightly popular library that allows developers to quickly implement a Material Design datatable to view, filter, and manage data in a Vue.js project. At the time of writing, the library is used by 221 open-source projects, as reported by GitHub.
Built vue-invisible-recaptcha, a library that makes it easy for developers to implement Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA in their Vue.js application. The repository is now private.