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Taha Hashmi

@tahahashmi

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Results-driven Senior Full Stack MERN engineer building scalable web apps with Node.js, React, GraphQL.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a product-focused team where I can own full-stack architecture, optimize APIs and performance, and lead CI/CD and cloud deployments—while mentoring engineers and applying security best practices.

I’m a results-driven Senior Full Stack MERN engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable, high-performance web applications. I specialize in optimizing API integrations, improving application performance, and delivering reliable systems through TDD and CI/CD.

In my current role, I’ve designed and optimized RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints, reducing API response times by 40% through efficient query structuring. I also built server-side rendered Next.js applications to enhance SEO performance and reduce Time to Interactive (TTI) by 30%.

I bring strong DevOps and cloud-native skills, managing deployments on AWS, Heroku, and DigitalOcean. I integrate CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and I’ve implemented distributed caching with Redis Cluster and background processing with BullMQ and DynamoDB.

I enjoy collaboration and continuous improvement—conducting code reviews and pair programming, and providing mentorship and performance feedback. I’m equally focused on security best practices, including OWASP and JWT Authentication, to build software teams can trust.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Full Stack Engineer

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Backend Triple Crown

Apr 2022 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Designed and optimized RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints, improving API response times. Built SSR applications with Next.js, implemented caching and background job processing, and managed CI/CD and cloud deployments.

Full Stack Engineer

Workrise

Feb 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Optimized API and serverless performance, reducing cold start latency. Led a REST-to-GraphQL migration, improved React performance, and implemented testing/security and state management practices.

Software Engineer

Tradesmen International

May 2017 - Jan 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Implemented real-time messaging with WebSockets and built features using React patterns. Built automated testing and CI workflows, and designed serverless architecture on AWS while managing database migrations and seeding.