Hussain Abbas
Engineering Manager at StackAdapt
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHussain Abbas is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building scalable, high-performance front-end systems and leading cross-functional teams. He combines hands-on technical leadership—modernizing stacks with TypeScript, Vue/React, design systems and real-time streaming—with strategic oversight that reduced time-to-market and boosted user satisfaction in prior roles. As acting CTO at Squaredance he aligned engineering with business outcomes, driving a 40% faster feature delivery, 60% NPS lift, and a 98% uptime SLA through improved observability and incident response. He’s skilled at solving tricky product problems like runtime brand-switching and large-scale bot detection, scaling solutions to support hundreds of storefronts and hundreds of thousands of users. Based in Toronto and currently at StackAdapt, Hussain blends developer empathy, mentoring, and measurable operational impact to turn complex UX and reliability challenges into repeatable engineering outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Bachelor's Degree, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at York University- Lassonde School of Engineering
Github Skills (14)
scroll7
jquery6
react-component6
react6
animation5
smooth5
javascript4
nextjs4
react-component-library3
typescript3
wordpress3
vue3
radius2
component-library2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
superhussain/Personal-Portfolio
Aug 2015 - May 2019
My personal portfolio website.
Contributions:77 commits, 65 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
personal-portfolio-websitereactnextjs
Jumbleberry/GrapeVine
Feb 2021 - Apr 2023
Theme folder/file setup for Radius
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 1 month
wordpressradius
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