Saad Yousaf
Back End Engineer at Arbisoft
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolSaad Yousaf is a back-end engineer with eight years of experience building and maintaining scalable web platforms, currently supporting a Stripe-integrated inventory and commerce backend for ShopwithEileen. He has deep Django expertise and has worked across databases (MySQL, MongoDB), React microfrontends, and event-driven systems to boost user engagement and operational insights. At Arbisoft he contributed significant back-end fixes and feature work to the widely used Open edX platform, including API design, discussion/forum revamps, notification systems, and certificate-related refactors. He also engineered complex third-party integrations for high-traffic booking systems, transforming and normalizing disparate provider APIs. Comfortable bridging sustaining/support work with feature development, Saad combines production troubleshooting with a focus on measurable learner and customer outcomes. Based in Islamabad, he pairs practical full-stack understanding with a track record of improving engagement and revenue through data-informed engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Bradford
Github Skills (8)
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
django10
report-generator9
rest-api9
report-builder9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:273 reviews, 164 commits, 247 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Saad primarily focused on back-end development within the Open edX platform. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to staff-only units and handling section links. They also worked on optimizing problem grade reports, implementing and updating API endpoints related to course settings and discussion moderation, and refactoring code related to certificate features. In addition, the user was involved in removing and reverting specific code changes.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
saadyousafarbi/auto-shop
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
A website containing information about automobiles for buying/selling purposes.
Contributions:36 PRs, 91 pushes, 45 branches in 5 years 3 months
reactjavascriptsellingnodejsautomobiles
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