Saif Bechan
Director Of Engineering at Scholarships360
Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
Summary
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Top SchoolSaif Bechan is a practical, hands-on Director of Engineering with over a decade of experience building and leading full-stack teams across startups, agencies, and consultancy engagements. He combines deep frontend expertise (React, Next.js, TypeScript) with backend and infrastructure experience on Node.js, AWS, and experimentation with Rust and Go, delivering award-winning headless architectures and performant web platforms. Saif has a track record of scaling delivery—from founding a remote-focused web studio to leading engineering at Scholarships360 and mentoring teams at ThoughtWorks—while maintaining a strong developer-first approach to CI/CD, testing and code quality. He thrives in distributed, product-driven environments and has lived the remote lifestyle he builds for, having worked and traveled globally through Remote Year. Colleagues know him as a professional problem solver who blends pragmatic engineering with people-focused leadership to turn complex requirements into shipped value.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at Lyceum II SurinameMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Erasmus University Rotterdam
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
16,821reputation
2.1mreached
14answers
156questions
retrofit
top-1%
java
top-5%
Github Skills (86)
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
compiler10
retrofit10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
ssg10
workbox10
vercel10
nextjs10
server-rendering10
react10
react-framework9
webapp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saifbechan/saifbechan.me
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
Rocketeers have to find their path through obstacles to reach targets. They are helped by a genetic algorithm that advances good Rocketeers to the next stage. The genetic algorithm is written in Typescript and visualised with React and p5js.
Contributions:37 PRs, 61 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactobstaclesreachgeneticjavascript
saifbechan/dashingdot
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:25 PRs, 35 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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