Umar Sheikh
Software Engineer
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorUmar Sheikh is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer and product designer with 11 years of experience building polished, user-focused web applications from concept to production. He blends hands-on front-end expertise with React, TypeScript, Next.js and Vue with back-end skills in Node.js, GraphQL and Postgres, and deploys on AWS and Azure. Equally comfortable in Figma, Adobe XD and Sketch, Umar bridges product and engineering to deliver interfaces that are both visually thoughtful and testable using Jest and Cypress. He favors component-driven development with Storybook and Tailwind, and brings a systems mindset honed on Linux and modern build tooling like Webpack. Based in England, he pairs design sensibility with pragmatic engineering trade-offs to ship reliable, maintainable products. An understated strength is his dual fluency in prototyping and production code, which speeds iteration and reduces handoff friction.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (44)
javascript10
displays10
chrome-extension10
single-page10
chrome10
react10
txt9
npm9
expansion9
editing9
sencha8
numeric8
npm-package8
elm8
phonegap7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
umarsheikh13/windbreakercss
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
umarsheikh13/elmtimes
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
ELM Times - Single Page Prayer Times Web App
Contributions:67 commits, 63 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
prayer-timeselmjavascriptislamtimes
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