Samar Hassan
Software Engineer at Highbiza
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSamar Hassan is a Software Engineer based in London with three years’ experience building and optimizing e-commerce platforms using Django, Django Oscar and Wagtail. As a core contributor and maintainer of the popular django-oscar project, she has delivered performance improvements—cutting load times by up to 90% through advanced caching—and implemented practical features like category exclusions and dashboard optimizations. Her background spans backend systems, APIs, Celery-driven async processing, Redis, Stripe integrations and React front-ends, enabling end-to-end delivery of complex commerce and real-time features. Trained in Data Science (MSc) and full‑stack development, she combines data-driven thinking with hands-on open-source contributions and a knack for turning designer mockups into robust, tested products.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampNational University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at London South Bank University
English, Urdu
Github Skills (6)
django-oscar10
python10
ecommerce10
django10
database-optimization9
sql7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
django-oscar/django-oscar
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Domain-driven e-commerce for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 99 reviews, 109 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samar primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Django-based e-commerce platform. Their work included resolving issues related to offer removal, optimizing database calls in dashboard pages, and implementing new features such as excluding categories from ranges. The user demonstrated proficiency in Python, Django, and related e-commerce concepts. They also addressed issues in dashboard functionality and implemented optimizations for improved performance.
pythondjango-oscarecommercecommercedjango
samar-hassan/django-oscar-api
May 2023 - Sep 2024
RESTful JSON API for django-oscar
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 4 months
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