Saad Taj
Software Developer at TOPBOX
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSaad Taj is a software developer with eight years’ experience building full-stack and DevOps solutions across startups and enterprise teams in Canada. An Honors Mathematics graduate from the University of Waterloo, he blends strong analytical foundations with practical experience delivering SSR front-ends, microservices, and cloud migrations (notably reducing load times and API calls through caching and SSR strategies). His work spans event platforms, e-learning SCORM tooling, and defense-focused Rails applications, and he has driven performance and automation gains via caching, SQL optimization, and scripted CI/CD improvements. Comfortable across JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Rails, PHP/Moodle, and AWS, he’s equally effective sketching UX in Figma and implementing resilient backend patterns—he also champions knowledge-sharing initiatives to help smaller teams punch above their weight.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Urdu, English
Github Skills (8)
gatsbyjs9
bootstrap8
react7
css7
javascript5
html5
mongodb1
full-stack1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SJT00/PrevSite
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:69 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
SJT00/SJT00.github.io
Apr 2021 - Dec 2025
My now "Reactified" Personal Website, built with React, Gatsby, Bootstrap and the continued holy trinity of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Contributions:18 PRs, 254 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years 8 months
bootstrapcssgatsbyjsjavascriptreact
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