Zaahid Bateson
Senior Programmer Analyst at The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarZaahid Bateson is a Senior Programmer Analyst based in Vancouver with 11 years of software engineering experience and a long tenure at the University of British Columbia. He combines hands-on development, systems programming, and client-facing consulting—having saved an estimated 28 weeks of work for a major petrochemical client by automating and redesigning load processes. Zaahid has contributed to the popular Codeception PHP testing framework, improving WebDriver support, form submission handling, and robustness of test cases. His background spans enterprise systems for banking in the GCC, web and CMS projects for large Canadian clients, and regional software training and deployment across Eurasia and North America. Known for pragmatic problem solving and improving reliability in both legacy and test automation codebases, he brings a mix of field consulting insight and steady operational delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (26)
codeception10
webdriver10
testing10
phpunit10
php10
unit-testing9
json9
acceptance-testing9
forms9
spring-mvc9
eforms9
jackson9
rest9
use-form9
integration-testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Codeception/Codeception
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Full-stack testing PHP framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 42 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Zaahid primarily contributed to testing and improving the Codeception PHP testing framework. Their work involved implementing new test cases, fixing bugs related to form submissions, and enhancing the WebDriver module. They also refactored code for improved URL handling and made updates to the submission of form data, including multi-select and boolean values. Their contributions improved the functionality, robustness, and usability of the testing framework.
acceptance-testingend-to-endtestingphpbdd
zbateson/DataDefender
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
Sensitive Data Management: Data Discovery and Anonymization toolkit
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
data-managementpythondata-discoverysensitive-datadiscovery
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