Saahil Jaffer
Software Engineer at Zip
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSaahil Jaffer is a software engineer and University of Waterloo graduate with eight years of hands-on experience building front-end and full-stack products at startups and scale-ups. He has repeatedly driven migrations and upgrades—moving transactional email systems, modernizing React/Next.js codebases, and enabling ESM and Node versioning—while improving application performance and test coverage. Comfortable shipping from 0 to 1, he built an AI-powered immigration chatbot that cut sales lead handling by over half and prototyped a Unity-based virtual museum, showing both product and experimental breadth. Saahil’s background spans product engineering, QA automation, and performance tuning, and he’s pragmatic about cross-functional coordination to get projects over the line. Based in Old Toronto, he’s currently at Zip and actively seeking roles where he can help early-stage teams scale architecture and delivery.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (20)
finance10
laravel10
dialog9
conversation9
chatbot8
bots8
machine-learning7
chatterbot7
chat7
python7
nlp7
react3
firebase3
portal3
nodejs3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
saahiljaffer/prayer-clock
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
This clock uses a python script which automatically retrieves prayer times from a database and casts the adhan to a Google Assistant speaker at it's scheduled time using cron.
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
prayer-timespython3raspberry-pi
saahiljaffer/jaffers
Mar 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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