Zakariya Mohummed
Senior Software Engineer at PolyAI
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolZakariya Mohummed is a product-focused software leader with 8 years’ experience building and operating production web and mobile systems across React, TypeScript, Python, and serverless AWS/GCP backends. Currently a Senior Software Engineer at PolyAI and Director of Halal Meetups, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-team ownership—shipping end-to-end features from frontend UX to scalable event-driven services. His background includes driving migrations to TypeScript, introducing CI/CD, and architecting real-time analytics and notification microservices that measurably improved engagement and reliability. He also built accessibility-first solutions like an Apple Watch app for restaurant staff, showing a practical focus on inclusive, impact-driven product design. Outside work he founded and runs the Birmingham Somali Tech Meetup, growing it to ~200 members and creating a strong local mentorship and events programme. Comfortable mentoring engineers and translating business goals into resilient systems, he thrives at the intersection of product, code quality, and operational excellence.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Udemy
English, Somali
Github Skills (13)
editor9
vscode9
vscode-extension9
microsoft9
electron9
typescript9
visual-studio8
visual-studio-code8
api4
scraper4
php2
laravel1
laravel-api1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xcoders-hub/ZPlayer-Data-Collection
May 2020 - Nov 2020
ZPlayer web scraper extracts data to be used by API and App.
Contributions:95 commits in 5 months
apiextracts-dataweb-scraperscrapingextracts
Zakariya1057/SuperStore
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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