Summary
Burhan Syed is a Full Stack Engineer with 8 years of experience building user-centric web and mobile products, currently crafting a UI-first microblogging platform and delivering custom SaaS and e-commerce solutions. He blends a solutions-engineering mindset with strong CS fundamentals, moving fluidly between TypeScript/React/Next.js on the front end and Node/Postgres on the back end, while also drawing on Java and Python when needed. His work includes high-traffic frontend engineering—optimizing PWAs for 70%+ mobile use and supporting millions of monthly pageviews—and backend systems that scale to process hundreds of thousands of videos and thousands of requests per minute. Comfortable shipping end-to-end features, he prioritizes accessibility, performance, and iterative user feedback, having implemented 70+ community-requested product improvements. Based in Cincinnati, he pairs a biomedical engineering background and a Hack Reactor software engineering certificate to approach problems with both analytical rigor and product empathy.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at University of Iowa