Shama Hoque
Co-Founder & Managing Director at Alphy
Bangladesh
Summary
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Top SchoolShama Hoque is a Co-Founder and Managing Director with 13 years of software engineering experience building full-stack web applications and leading small product-focused teams from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She combines hands-on MERN development—demonstrated by contributions to marketplace and social apps and a Packt-published Full-Stack React book repo—with leadership roles that include heading software at an AI startup and advising health-tech and accessibility projects. Her background spans industry and academia, having taught web application courses and worked on accessible voting research at Carnegie Mellon-affiliated projects. Shama is comfortable shipping both frontend UX features (theme, profile, media uploads) and backend integrations (server setup, APIs, build tooling), reflecting a practical, product-oriented engineering style. As a mentor and educator-entrepreneur, she brings an unusual blend of teaching experience, research-driven accessibility work, and startup grit to early-stage product and platform decisions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate BSc. in Computer Engineering, Undergraduate BSc. in Computer Engineering at North South UniversityMaster's Computer Software Engineering, Master's Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityThe Aga Khan School, Dhaka
Github Skills (27)
javascript10
expressjs10
web-application10
ecommerce10
material-ui10
full-stack10
mongodb-database10
webpack10
webapp10
webpacker10
mern10
nodejs10
social-media10
mongodb10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-React-Projects-Second-Edition
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition, published by Packt
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 13 days
Contributions summary:Shama contributed significantly to the setup and development of a MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack application. Their work included setting up server-side code, client-side React components, and configuring the build process using webpack. The commits show the implementation of basic front-end components, database connection, and hot module replacement for development. The user also modified the existing code to create a production build.
reactreact-projectsexpressjsfull-stackjavascript
shamahoque/mern-social
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
A MERN stack based social media application [Full-Stack React Projects]
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Shama primarily focused on developing features for a MERN stack social media application. Their contributions included implementing a color theme and name update, integrating a user profile photo upload functionality. The user also enhanced user profiles by adding an "about" field and integrating features for following and unfollowing other users. These commits demonstrate a strong focus on front-end and back-end integration within the application.
react-projectsweb-applicationexpressfull-applicationmongoose
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