Hello! Hamir here. I'm a software engineer and U.S. citizen living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've written open-source software for over 5 years. You can see my public contributions at https://github.com/hamirmahal.
Experience
▪ Improved code safety and quality by migrating a 100+ file JavaScript, Node.js, NoSQL, MongoDB, and Express.js back-end to TypeScript for a team of 4 engineers at an early-stage startup building a React mobile app
▪ Cut costs by reducing billable time for integration and unit testing in our CI/CD pipeline by over 93%
▪ Made a machine learning task finish 71% faster in Python by using a more efficient convolutional neural network (CNN), developing with Git, GitHub, and Linux
▪ Rewrote the Python machine learning backend in Rust for an 18% boost in single-threaded performance
▪ Finished file processing 34% faster by rewriting a Python program with Numpy in Rust
▪ Further improved Rust performance by 3.5x with multi-threaded programming
▪ Added fine-grained permissions for 3 object types for an early-stage B2B SaaS startup by modifying a PostgreSQL database and Apollo GraphQL API backend written in Rust and SQL
▪ Built a Python web scraper for an early stage startup founder that can scrape over 100 web pages in just a few seconds
2022 — 2023
I used Electron, or Electron.js, at Dandy, a B2B SaaS startup headquartered in New York. With Electron, we shipped our React web application, written with TypeScript, onto Windows desktops.
Here's more of what I did at Dandy.
▪ Delivered pixel-perfect UIs into Chairside for Dandy, a B2B SaaS startup that’s delivered over 1.5 million products, using Redux as our state management library, modern CSS, React.js, Electron.js, TypeScript, ES6+, gRPC, GCP, and Cypress, collaborating cross-functionally with product and design to improve product details and UX
▪ Reduced code complexity by removing over 50% of the circular dependencies in our team’s full stack Node.js, PostgreSQL and GraphQL codebase, as measured by eslint, using Bash, Docker and Linux for development
▪ Fixed 6 outstanding issues in 1 Agile sprint in December 2022, when our team was particularly short-staffed
▪ Taught other engineers in our healthcare startup’s 92-person engineering org, regularly reviewing code on GitHub
▪ Added 5 new runbooks while on-call so our team of 11 engineers would have easier on-call shifts
▪ Enhanced a web application’s user experience (UX) by making over 160 GitHub discussions discoverable
using GitHub's GraphQL API, JavaScript, Node.js and Docker, and Linux and Git for development
▪ Built a source-code analysis tool for a developer-facing product that can analyze over 51,000 lines of code in less than 16 seconds, using TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, NPM and Linux, and Vitest for unit testing
▪ Led development on an early-stage B2D startup’s Visual Studio Code extension, overseeing an increase in extension installations of over 200%, from less than 800 to over 2,800, working full stack with AWS, CircleCI, DynamoDB, Docker, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js, and JavaScript
▪ Improved activation times on that startup’s TypeScript and Node.js Visual Studio Code extension by over 40% on modern devices, and over 80% on older devices, bundling source files using Webpack for efficiency
▪ Architected and maintained a React.js, TypeScript, and modern CSS single-page app that connected to Rest API services with up to 2,238 monthly pageviews, using Cypress for UI/UX testing, and Jest for unit testing
2016 — 2018
Westfield San Francisco Centre
Engaged Microsoft store customers to determine their technological needs (Windows, Office, Surface) and find a solution to execute the company mission’s statement of empowering every individual to achieve more
Provided world-class customer service, contributing to the store’s 93/100 Net Promoter Score, helping the store reach 6.1% year-over-year growth and 48.7% year-over-year growth in Microsoft Surface sales
Regularly communicated complex technical topics to non-technical customers, sometimes getting as many as 3 perfect 10 out of 10 customer satisfaction scores in one 7-hour shift
Education
San José State University
Bachelor of Science - BS
South San Francisco High School