Areeq Imran

I’m a software engineer focused on building production-ready features that feel instantaneous to users. Recently, I architected the frontend for a talent dashboard and project management platform, including real-time notifications, chat, file management, and webhook integrations with synchronized state across applications.

I care deeply about performance and reliability. I reduced resume parsing cold start times from 20s to under 1s by proactively warming the service for eligible sign-ins, eliminating wait time during onboarding, and I helped automate infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and AWS for consistent deployments across dev, staging, and production.

I also enjoy improving security and product experience together. I spearheaded a migration from traditional email/password authentication to password-less login using magic links, OTP, and socials—strengthening security while streamlining UX.

Beyond web apps, I build systems that teach me new engineering rigor. My projects include an Airtable clone with high-performance fuzzy search (Trigram + GIN indices) and a responsive spreadsheet UI that virtualizes rows for 1,000,000-row rendering, plus a full CHIP-8 emulator in modern C++20 and a concurrent spreadsheet server in Rust.