Tarek Islam
Back End Engineer at Skillshare
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTarek Islam is a back end engineer based in New York with 11 years of software development experience, focused on JavaScript ecosystems and building reliable server-side services. Currently at Skillshare, he brings practical Express/Node expertise to support scalable learning platforms while pairing that with front-end React chops from his full-stack background. His path includes a nontraditional stretch as an Uber driver, reflecting resilience and real-world problem solving alongside formal training at Pursuit and Zero To Mastery. He also completed a focused cybersecurity fellowship at CodePath, giving him practical security awareness that informs his engineering choices. Colleagues know him for combining pragmatic backend design with an appreciation for front-end UX, and for shipping features that balance performance and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
Full stack web development, Full stack web development at PursuitZero To Mastery Academy
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (39)
webscraper9
git9
github9
ejs8
kitchen8
scrape8
patch7
coveralls7
conditionals7
backend7
nodejs6
api6
cheerio6
speaker6
react5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tarekul/resume
Sep 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
tarekul/EasyEats
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Hackathon Project
Contributions:53 commits, 42 PRs, 32 pushes in 8 days
reactnodejs
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