Shakeel Mohamed
Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolShakeel Mohamed is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS in Cape Town with three years of professional experience building customer-facing cloud software. He works across frontend components and accessibility, notably contributing to the Cloudscape Design System by refactoring and enhancing date picker and date range picker behaviors, focus management, and styling. With a Computer Science Honours from the University of Cape Town and a progression from SDE Intern to his current role, he combines strong academic grounding with hands-on delivery at scale. Colleagues would describe him as detail-oriented about UX and accessibility, able to simplify complex component interactions while improving maintainability. He brings practical experience shipping production React components inside a major cloud platform and a proven aptitude for incremental, testable improvements.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Honours, Computer Science, Postgraduate, Computer Science Honours, Computer Science, Postgraduate at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (16)
datepicker10
typescript10
component-kit10
typescripts10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
sys10
daterangepicker10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
sc9
scs9
accessibility8
assembly6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cloudscape-design/components
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
React components for Cloudscape Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 18 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shakeel primarily contributed to the front-end components of the Cloudscape Design System. They focused on refactoring and enhancing the date picker and date range picker components, including implementing features like embedded date pickers and improving focus management using `FocusLock` and the addition/removal of tab traps. Their work involved modifying the component structure, adding new features, and making several changes to improve the component's behavior and accessibility. They also contributed to the overall styling, and refactored functionality to use shared helper functions.
reactdesign-systemreact-componentstypescriptscss
zshakeel-amazon/components-range-picker-refactor
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Refactor of date range picker
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 19 days
datetimedatepickerrefactorcalendardate-range-picker
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