Ali Aftab is a full-stack software engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building web applications primarily using JavaScript, React, Node.js, and Postgres. A former health-industry professional, he pivoted to software to have broader impact by creating products that improve people’s lives and brings domain empathy to healthcare-focused engineering. He has shipped features and backend services at companies like Olive and Smartronix, worked on data ingestion for medical data, and contributed assessment content for Codecademy using Jest. Comfortable across the NERDS stack and familiar with cloud and security practices (AWS, Terraform, OWASP), he also mentors teammates and streamlines onboarding. Practical, curious, and always exploring new technologies, he pairs frontend polish with backend reliability to move projects from prototype to production.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack Academy
UMBC
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Master of Science Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science Artificial Intelligence at University of Pennsylvania
Web Progressive app that lets you track and manage your finances with graphs. Technology used: Technology used: React, Redux, Firebase Cloud, Express, Plaid API, Heroku, TDD (Mocha)
Contributions:87 commits, 20 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.