Vahid Alavi
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Huma
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVahid Alavi is a Senior Backend Software Engineer based in London with 9 years of full-stack experience building robust, production-ready APIs and realtime systems. He has progressed from frontend roles into backend leadership, most recently serving as Team Lead and now at Huma, and co-founded a startup where he helped shape backend architecture. Vahid’s open-source work includes developing Soul, an automatic SQLite RESTful and realtime API server, where he implemented CRUD, pagination, filtering, schema validation and websocket-driven realtime updates. He pairs a strong mathematics background with practical engineering, favoring pragmatic, reliable solutions that accelerate delivery. Off the clock he’s an enthusiastic farmer-in-training and self-described procrastinator who brings curiosity and a sense of play to technical problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of Technology
Persian, English
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Github Skills (18)
sqlite10
realtime10
expressjs10
apidoc10
api10
rest10
sql10
nodejs10
react-hooks9
javascript9
react9
reactstrap6
styled-components6
loops6
axios6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thevahidal/soul
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
🕉 Soul | Automatic SQLite RESTful and realtime API server | Build CRUD APIs in seconds!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 122 reviews, 79 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Vahid focused on developing the back-end API functionalities for a SQLite RESTful server. They implemented CRUD operations, including creating, reading, updating, and deleting tables and rows. They also added features like pagination, filtering, ordering, and schema validation, enhancing the API's capabilities. Furthermore, the user integrated websocket functionality for real-time updates.
realtimesqlite3realtime-serversqlitenodejs
thevahidal/hoopoe
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
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Contributions:24 releases, 64 commits, 6 PRs in 10 months
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