# Qandeel Sajid

> Senior Software Engineer at Fictiv

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/qandeel

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working on full stack web applications. Skilled in UI Design, JavaScript, React, Node.js, C++, SQL, and HTML/CSS with experience in AngularJS, C#, Angular, and ASP.net. My background and interests include web design, robotics, and AI. I received my Master of Science (M.S.) focused in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Fictiv
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Led a team of five for three months to release two user-facing projects to production. Worked with PM, designer, and stakeholders, to understand the objectives and priorities. Successfully estimated user stories, created tasks, and released each project as scoped. 
- Created technical designs for domain models in the GraphQL Api to support frontend work, implemented the designs to spec and deployed code to production with api unit tests (GraphQL, JS)
- Implemented a new faster bug-free checkout page using React Hooks, Ruby, & GraphQL for the platform app. 
- Mentored two new engineers on Fictiv’s coding and testing standards through code reviews and feedback.
- Debugged multiple productions issues including a bug blocking a 30K order from being purchased. 
- Contributed 23K+ lines of code to front-end repo and 34K+ to backend repos.

### Software Development Engineer in Test II @ IGT
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Reno, Nevada Area
- Gained full stack development experience actively working on internal company-wide metrics web dashboard designed to analyze various stages of IGT’s product development and testing. This project is used regularly to make work and business decisions by engineers, managers, and even at the executive level. Front-End: JS, JQuery, AngularJS, ; Backend: ASP.Net, C#, SQL
- Conceptualized, designed, and implemented an internal project management tool that provides a userfriendly UI while employing Jira for task tracking. Front-End: JS, Angular (4); Backend: SQL, ASP.Net
- Redesigned and implemented web version of an existing desktop app using JS and AngularJS
- Received an excellence award for work on the company-wide metrics web dashboard

### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Southern California
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Used computational/probabilistic models (e.g. Bayesian, HMMs) for developing efficient robot personalities
- Researched Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with Dr. Maja Matarić in the Interaction Lab as a PhD student
- Worked with human subjects in research studies along with various robot platforms (i.e., NAO)
- Helped write and obtain a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Robotics Initiative (NRI) grant
- Mentored undergraduate students; provided outreach tours and events for K-12 classrooms

### Research Intern @ National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Gaithersburg, MD
- Worked with Dr. Jeremy Marvel on the Collaborative Human-Robot Safety Project
- Investigated various metrics for evaluating the performance of Human-Robot Collaboration in manufacturing

### Research Intern @ NASA Ames Research Center
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA
- Evaluated the use of ARM single-board computers in transferring and manipulating Point Cloud data received directly from a Kinect; Worked with BeagleBone, BeagleBoard, Gumstix, OpenNI, Kinect, ROS, and PCL

### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of Nevada, Reno
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
- Employed computer vision and various feature detection and matching algorithms for a NASA funded project on robot localization; gained experience with ARDrones, Android SDK, and Kinects

### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of Nevada, Reno
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- Worked with Dr. Kostas Bekris and his group, PRACSYS, in the Robotics Lab at UNR
- Formed, implemented (C++), and published in a peer-reviewed paper a new discrete multi-robot path
planning algorithm that allowed multiple robots to move simultaneously towards their desired destinations
- Learned about various motion planning problems and methods


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Nevada, Reno


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/qandeel-sajid-67558165
- GitHub: https://github.com/SajidQ
- Portfolio: http://sajidq.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-29