Talal Najam
Advanced Software Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTalal Najam is an Advanced Full Stack Software Engineer based in Sheffield with eight years of experience building web and automation solutions for enterprise and product teams. He currently helps deliver NX for web at Siemens, combining front-end React/TypeScript work with cloud-native tooling like Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform to ship CAD experiences used in high-performance engineering. Talal has a strong track record in automating tedious operational workflows—saving hours per task through ETL, infra provisioning and CI/CD improvements—and has driven better code review and review-app deployments on AWS. His open-source contributions include focused UI/UX enhancements to well-known projects such as OpenDota and feature work on Quran.com’s Next.js frontend, reflecting a practical emphasis on component-driven, user-friendly interfaces. Talal pairs formal software engineering training (BSc, First Class) with cross-functional collaboration in product and CX teams to turn complex domain needs into polished, testable web experiences.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Software Engineering - 1st Class, Bsc, Software Engineering - 1st Class at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU / APIIT)
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
component-development10
typescript10
nextjs10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
web-development10
react10
apim9
redux9
api9
styled-components8
ota7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
odota/web
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
React web interface for the OpenDota platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Talal primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the OpenDota web platform. Their contributions involved adding hover animations and styling to the footer, including implementing color changes using constants. They also added components for the Aghanim's Scepter and Shard tooltips, which involved creating new components, adding images, and displaying upgrade information. These changes demonstrate a focus on UI/UX improvements and component-level development within the React framework.
opendotareactdataweb-interfacejavascript
quran/quran.com-frontend-next
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Frontend build on next.js
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 16 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Talal primarily focused on implementing and integrating features related to the "Rub el hizb" functionality within the Quran.com frontend. Their contributions included adding a dedicated Rub el hizb page with validation, integrating controls for navigation between Rubs, and configuring API calls and utilities to support the Rub-specific data. They also made related changes to types and sitemap configuration.
next-jsreactfrontend-buildfrontendtypescript
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