Amir Sekhavati
AWS Software Engineer at Financial Conduct Authority
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir Sekhavati is an AWS software engineer with 10 years of experience building maintainable full-stack web systems, currently focused on TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, React and infrastructure as code with CDK. He has delivered software across startups and large enterprises—including Booking.com, Sky, Oracle and most recently the UK Financial Conduct Authority—bringing practical experience in both Java/C++ and modern JS ecosystems. Amir cares deeply about simplicity and clean code, aiming to turn complex problems into elegant, scalable solutions. He’s an active contributor to open-source tooling work (notably enhancements to DuckDuckGo Instant Answers), showing a knack for pragmatic API integrations and cross-stack fixes. Based in Leeds, he combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and continuous learning to improve teams and systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming, Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming at Teesside University
Persian, English
Github Skills (9)
apim10
momentjs10
instant-view10
duckduckgo10
javascript10
api10
instantsearch10
handlebars9
perl9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 21 PRs, 58 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Amir primarily focused on enhancing the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers feature, contributing both to backend and frontend aspects. Their work involved bug fixes and implementing improvements for Sunrise/Sunset and Thesaurus functionalities, indicating work with Perl and JavaScript. They also updated the weather forecast feature to utilize moment.js and refactored multiple SeatGeek-related features, demonstrating familiarity with frontend libraries and API integration.
apijsjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answers
sekhavati/zeroclickinfo-spice
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:75 pushes, 42 branches in 7 months
apijavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersjson-apis
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