Sameen Fatima is a product-focused full stack engineer with over six years of experience building high-scale edtech integrations and platform features. She has driven enterprise-grade APIs, SSO and provisioning systems at edX/2U, led a distributed team, and improved onboarding automation that cut setup time by two-thirds. Comfortable across Django, React, AWS and event-driven systems, she has shipped performance optimizations, skill-tagging for 1M+ course units, and backend e-commerce fixes in the Open edX codebase. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Data Science, she brings growing AI/ML interest to her product work and a strong habit of documenting workflows for long-term maintainability. Beyond coding, Sameen mentors fresh graduates, shapes hiring and bootcamp curricula, and serves as a client-facing technical lead with a track record of high NPS scores. Her blend of product empathy, open-source contributions, and operational focus makes her effective at turning complex integration requirements into reliable, self-serve solutions.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Data Science, Masters of Science Data Science at Information Technology University
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Intermediate (ICS) Computer Science, Intermediate (ICS) Computer Science at Punjab College of Information & Technology
Matriculation, Matriculation at Divisional Public School
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:56 reviews, 23 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sameen primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the e-commerce service, specifically in the area of coupon and offer management. Their contributions included adding new features like search by code functionality and fixing a bug related to coupon types. They also worked on optimizing methods and creating new data capture points for assignment, revoke and nudge emails, as well as addressing expiration date issues and enabling new features like salesforce opportunity ID. These changes reflect a strong focus on improving the usability and functionality of the coupon system.
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:74 reviews, 13 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sameen primarily contributed to the backend of the course discovery service. Their work involved implementing features within the Django admin interface, specifically for managing course skills. They modified code related to views, models, serializers, and search indexes to incorporate new functionality and improve existing ones. Furthermore, the user added end date filtering capabilities and updated the API serializers.
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