Umar Shaikh
Senior Frontend Engineer at Signit | ساين إت
Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan
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Top SchoolUmar Shaikh is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building high-performance, scalable web applications using React, Next.js and TypeScript. Currently driving product and platform quality at Signit.sa, he focuses on secure, compliant digital signature experiences that are shaping KSA’s digital infrastructure. Previously as a lead frontend engineer at EY MENA he architected headless, backend-driven UIs and performance-optimized Next.js apps for government and banking clients, routinely achieving 95%+ Lighthouse scores. Umar combines strong UI craftsmanship with infrastructure-minded practices—CI/CD, linting hooks, and SonarQube—to keep codebases maintainable and production-ready. He’s led small teams to deliver AI-enabled and high-traffic consumer products (including an AI player-development platform backed by $4M+ funding) and is known for translating complex requirements into intuitive, accessible interfaces.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, Pre-Engineering, Intermediate, Pre-Engineering at Govt. Degree Science & Commerce College, Gulshan-e-IqbalBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.67 GPA 🥈, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.67 GPA 🥈 at DHA Suffa UniversityMatriculation, A+, Matriculation, A+ at H.B Malik Public School
Github Skills (46)
markdown10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm10
react-applications9
data-driven9
appwrite9
placement9
relay-modern9
server-side-rendering9
react9
relay9
tooltips8
java7
javascript-framework7
react-modal7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
umershaikh97/Place-Share
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
A MERN Stack application where users can share places (with images & location) with other.
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
reactexpressjsmernexpressmongodb-database
umershaikh97/react-typescript-boilerplate
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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