Senior Tech Lead / Staff Engineer with 10+ years experience of architecting and scaling high-performance web applications. Expert at aligning technical strategy and roadmaps with business ROI to drive measurable growth. Proven track record in mentoring teams and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
Core Technical Skills
Languages/Frameworks
TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Java, Swift, Bash, Ruby, Python
Frontend
ReactJS, Remix, NextJS, Redux, Tailwind, React Native, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Sass, Styled Components, Vite, Webpack, PWA, Service Workers, Web Sockets, ThreeJS, D3JS
Backend
NodeJS, Express, GraphQL, Symfony, Laravel, Redis, REST APIs, Elastic, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB
AI/ML
OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic/Claude, GitHub Copilot, Augment, Prompt Engineering, AI Agents, Hugging Face, TensorFlow, DALL-E
Management
Jira, Confluence, Agile (Scrum/Kanban), GitHub, Bitbucket
Architecture
AI Agentic workflows, Micro-frontends, Microservices, Monorepos (Lerna/Yarn Workspaces), PWA, MVC, SSR, SSG, JAMstack, Serverless, CDNs, OAuth, JWT
Cloud/DevOps
AWS, Cloudflare, Docker, GCP, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Concourse, Fly, Atlassian, Akamai
Testing
TDD, BDD, Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Playwright, React Testing Library, Selenium, JUnit, PHPUnit, Puppeteer
Observability/UX
AppDynamics, Site24x7, VWO, Optimizely, SEOClarity, Elastic APM, Heap Analytics, Lighthouse, WebPageTest, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Catchpoint, Google Analytics, OpenTelemetry, BetterStack, Figma
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead (Dec 2023 — Present)
Sky
Manage Sky’s online portfolio across US, Europe, and Africa. Lead TDD/DX initiatives; mentor engineers to accelerate career growth. Drive high-stakes technical decisions via cross-functional stakeholder collaboration.
Staff Engineer (Jan 2023 — Nov 2023)
Rated People
Led legacy-to-React/Node migration, improving reliability and performance. Leveraged Lighthouse/WebPageTest and PWA for 55% platform speed increase. Spearheaded CI/CD pipelines via BitBucket, Bamboo, AWS, and Cloudflare.
Frontend Tech Lead (Jun 2018 — Dec 2022)
Rated People
Built Node/Redis BFF service with auth sessions handling more than half a million daily requests to Java microservices. Spearheaded migration using React, Node, and Remix. Leveraged Cloudflare Workers, VWO and SEOClarity for A/B testing and SEO gains.
Frontend Web Developer (Nov 2015 — May 2018)
Rated People
Helped transition Frontend stack to AWS to enhance performance; Docker for scalable deployments. Spearheaded and developed custom signup app with automated vetting process using LAMP and Symfony2.
Lead Web Developer (Feb 2013 — Oct 2015)
Influence Digital
Collaborated with design leads and project managers to maintain development sprints, ensuring seamless project execution for high-profile clients. Oversaw the social apps and websites development, mentored and managed the development team and maintained the technical roadmap.
Projects & Open Source
I develop apps based on personal ideas and interests in my spare time. Most of my projects are open-sourced and the code is hosted at GitHub. Here are some selected projects:
Guess Where
Geo-quiz game. Built with React, Google Maps API, and PartyKit (WebSockets).
Google Maps API React Hook
Custom React hook to integrate Google Maps JavaScript SDK in React apps.
Facebook API React Hook
Custom React hook to integrate Facebook JavaScript SDK in React apps.
Postcode.io
PHP library for postcodes.io API.
Work Clock
Swift-based MacOS utility for managing remote work across timezones.
Childcare Vouchers
A directory of businesses accepting childcare vouchers as payment.
Reason to Follow
A browser extension for remembering reasons to follow accounts on social platforms.
Freelancing
Developer (Sep 2013 — Aug 2014)
Multinet
I developed a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) platform in LAM(PHP) stack to monitor countrywide fibre-optic operations internally. The monitoring platform extensively used Google Maps API underneath with drawings API on top of it to add lines and station data to showcase service status in real-time. The source of data was the emails generated by the stations on service updates.
Developer (May 2012 — Aug 2012)
JMK Logistics
I developed the website, designed branding and an internal logistics consignment system using LAM(PHP) stack that had helped me learn advance aspects of web development.
Developer (Feb 2011 — Jan 2012)
Aerologic Limited
I designed the wireframes and prototypes. Based on these designs, I developed the website and inventory UI for electro-mechanical material related to the aerospace industry using open-source technologies LAM(PHP).
Education & Voluntary work
MSc Computer Science (Web Development)
Staffordshire University
September 2010 — February 2013
Regional Community Lead & Moderator
Google Map Maker
2008 — 2013
Source: jabran.me/resume/