Afzaal Ahmad
Front End Engineer - II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAfzaal Ahmad is a Front End Engineer II based in Vancouver with six years of experience building user-facing products and infrastructure in fast-paced, distributed teams. He brings a pragmatic, low-maintenance engineering style honed across startups and large platforms like AWS, with hands-on experience modernizing React apps, optimizing load times, and running high-coverage TDD landing sites. Afzaal has led cross-functional teams to refactor legacy dashboards, upgraded React major versions, and resolved critical on-call incidents while integrating services like Stripe, Google PubSub, and AWS SES. He contributes to notable open-source work—enhancing the popular react-player component with player fixes, types updates, and lazy-loading improvements—which reflects his attention to usability and robustness. Comfortable across front-end and backend stacks (Next.js, NestJS, MongoDB, GraphQL), he seeks to build developer tooling and modern open-source solutions that boost both business and engineering velocity. An unusual strength is his experience using puppeteer and captcha solvers to automate multi-platform meeting recordings, demonstrating creative problem solving beyond typical frontend scope.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Science (F.Sc) Pre-Engineering, Faculty of Science (F.Sc) Pre-Engineering at Khawaja Fareed Govt. College, Rahim Yar KhanBachelor of Engineering (BE) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Software Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Matric Science, Matric Science at Al-Huda Grammar School, Rahim Yar Khan
English, Urdu
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
2answers
6questions
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
dashjs10
react10
360-video9
typescript9
typescript-types9
media9
audio9
player9
typescripts9
redirect6
laravel-routing6
php6
laravel6
regex6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cookpete/react-player
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
A React component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vimeo, Wistia and DailyMotion
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Afzaal primarily contributed to the React component `react-player`, focusing on enhancing its functionality and usability. They addressed issues related to the Wistia and Dash players, including updating configuration types, fixing deprecated methods, and implementing controls customization. Further, they added the ability to customize the fallback option during lazy loading and updated base types.
youtubevideo-playerdailymotionvideoplyr
afzaalahmad/react
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 months
react-modaljavascript-libraryreactstatelessjavascript
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