Summary
Arif Bashar is a software engineer based in Nashville with eight years of professional experience and five years focused on back-end development, currently contributing to Mastercard. He has hands-on experience building serverless RESTful APIs with Node.js, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway, and has used Terraform and Jenkins to automate deployments. As a former Cigna intern he led NoSQL data modeling efforts, translated SQL workloads to improve query performance, and helped design a multi-platform PWA that won Cigna’s Summer Innovations Project. A strong computer science graduate (3.9 GPA) from MTSU, Arif blends practical cloud-native engineering with a knack for UX-driven product thinking that helps technical teams visualize end-user value.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.9 GPA at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)