Azan Bin Zahid
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAzan Bin Zahid is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon with seven years of full-stack experience building scalable search and education platforms, previously advancing Open edX and backend services at Arbisoft and LUMS. He blends front-end JavaScript UI work (contributing to the flagship openedx/edx-platform) with backend modeling and data-loader automation, and has shipped performance and security improvements like parallelized fetches and mass XSS fixes. A competitive programmer, conference speaker and hackathon winner, Azan also led the Open Data Pakistan portal (CKAN) deployed on AWS serving thousands of users and datasets. He mentors new engineers, teaches university courses, and has a track record of turning open-source contributions into production-facing features across high-impact projects.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesSummer University, Virtual Reality and Exergaming, Summer University, Virtual Reality and Exergaming at Technische Universität BerlinInter, FSc, Inter, FSc at Government College University (GCU), Lahore
English, Urdu, Punjabi, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
api-rest10
javascript10
data-service10
python10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
ui-components10
data-modeling10
webservice10
front-end-development10
html10
rest-api10
backend10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/course-discovery
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 reviews, 26 commits, 61 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Azan primarily focused on enhancing the course discovery service's backend functionality. Their contributions involved adding new data models and serializers for course metadata, alongside implementing associated tests and migrations. The user also worked on creating utilities for data loading and formatting. Further work included adding fields to existing models and serializers and implementing a feature to archive stale products.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
openedx/openedx-platform
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:77 reviews, 65 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Azan primarily worked on front-end development within the Open edX platform. Their commits focused on modifying JavaScript files within the LMS, specifically related to UI components, views, and templates. The changes involved integrating HTML and JavaScript using edx-ui-toolkit library. The user also contributed to various UI components like filter labels, course cards and tabbed views.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
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