ALI URAIZ
Senior Full Stack Engineer
********.**@*****.***
github.com/thesxript
New Jersey, US
SUMMARY
Solutions-focused Senior Full Stack Engineer with 7+ years building MERN platforms across SaaS, fintech, and health. Works end to end across Node.js and Express APIs, React and Next.js front ends, and MongoDB data layers, with TypeScript throughout. Adds real-time features, automates testing and CI/CD, and has cut query latency and hosting costs by up to a third. Communicates clearly, mentors engineers, and leads delivery across cross-functional teams to release reliable software on time. EXPERIENCE
Senior Full Stack Engineer 05/2023 – Present
Beta QA
• Rebuilt Node.js and Express APIs in TypeScript and offloaded heavy jobs to a Python service, raising throughput 40%.
• Revamped React and Next.js dashboards over a GraphQL Apollo layer with WebSocket live updates.
• Tuned MongoDB with Mongoose and a PostgreSQL read store via Prisma, dropping query latency by 32%.
• Embedded an AI assistant by calling a Python FastAPI model from Node.js, automating 25% of support replies.
• Scaled containers on AWS ECS and EKS with autoscaling and Helm charts, trimming hosting spend by 20%.
• Streamlined CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Terraform, reducing release cycle time by 50%.
• Strengthened coverage with Jest and Playwright for Node and Pytest for Python services across CI.
• Guided three squads through code reviews and release planning to keep delivery on a steady cadence.
Full Stack Engineer 09/2020 – 04/2023
Softworld
• Restructured Node.js and NestJS services with RabbitMQ workers, handling 12k+ daily async events.
• Refined React and Next.js analytics on a GraphQL Apollo client to render large datasets without lag.
• Reorganized MongoDB collections and a PostgreSQL warehouse with TypeORM, speeding up analytics by 30%.
• Trained a Python recommendation model with pandas and served it through Node.js, lifting engagement by 15%.
• Migrated a legacy Ruby on Rails service to Dockerized Node.js on AWS, cutting release prep by 55%.
• Modernized monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana to catch issues before most outages reached users.
• Validated suites with Jest, Cypress, and RSpec for Rails, raising coverage from 40% to 85%.
Software Engineer 10/2018 – 08/2020
CornerStone
• Launched Node.js and Express REST APIs with rate limiting to hold up under seasonal traffic spikes.
• Reworked customer-facing React loyalty modules over a jQuery legacy bridge, increasing sign-ups by 12%.
• Simplified MongoDB aggregation pipelines with Mongoose for reporting, replacing manual spreadsheets.
• Scripted a Python anomaly detector feeding Node.js alerts, raising data sync accuracy to 98%.
• Standardized deployments on AWS EC2 with Docker images for consistent staging and production.
• Reduced manual release steps with early Jenkins pipelines, cutting deploy time by 30%.
• Tested critical flows with Mocha, Chai, and Selenium, lowering recurring bugs by 25%.
• Led onboarding with architecture docs and diagrams, shortening new-hire ramp-up by 30%.
SKILLS
Languages
JavaScript · TypeScript · Python · Ruby · Go ·
SQL
Backend Frameworks
Node.js · Express.js · NestJS · Fastify · Ruby on
Rails · Django
Frontend & Performance
React.js · Next.js · Redux · React Query · Context API . Tailwind CSS · Vite · SSR / SSG
Async, Queues & Realtime
RabbitMQ · Apache Kafka · Redis · BullMQ ·
Socket.io · WebSockets
APIs & Auth
REST · GraphQL · Apollo · gRPC · OpenAPI ·
JWT · OAuth2 · Keycloak
ORM & Data Modeling
Mongoose · Prisma · TypeORM · Sequelize ·
SQLAlchemy
AI & ML
OpenAI API · LangChain · Hugging Face ·
TensorFlow.js · Pinecone · pandas
AI Productivity
GitHub Copilot · Cursor · Claude · ChatGPT ·
Codeium
Databases & Search
MongoDB · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Redis ·
Elasticsearch
Cloud
AWS · GCP · Azure · Lambda · ECS · EKS · S3
DevOps & CI/CD
Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Helm · GitHub
Actions · Jenkins
Monitoring & Testing
Prometheus · Grafana · Sentry · Jest · Cypress ·
Playwright · Mocha · Postman
Version Control & PM
Git · GitHub · GitLab · Jira · Agile · Scrum
SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS
Chordline Health https://chordline.com/
– Healthcare managed-care platform powering case,
utilization, and population-health workflows.
– Delivered care-coordination APIs in Node.js, NestJS with a React dashboard, on MongoDB and AWS
Coworks https://coworks.com/
– Coworking SaaS for room booking, automated
billing, and member engagement.
– Powered booking and billing services in Express and Node.js with a React front end and MongoDB
EDUCATION
Bachelor in Information Technology