Shahzad Farukh

Online business presence is essential in this digital age, potential customers are expecting to see you online, it is one of the most important investments that a business can make. The benefits are endless!

If you are looking to establish an online business presence, a start-up building out a digital product, a software development shop looking to hire an experienced developer, or an established company scouting for a qualified developer. 

Your goal is to find a professional developer who can study your business requirement or designs and translate them to a quality software solution that delivers value to the business. 

I am an experienced developer who can translate business requirements or design into a state of the art software application. I have 7+ years of software development experience and have developed 30+ software applications which includes B2B, B2C, SAAS, E-commerce applications. Besides I do have experience in automation, ETL process, Scraping and server scripting. 

Industries I have covered include aviation, marketing, hospitality, finance, automotive, education, medical, health, employee management and fashion

A quality software solution is the one which is easy to use, bug-free, secure, SEO friendly, easy to upgrade and maintainable. I ensure it by adopting modern technologies, agile development, Test-driven development, Behaviour-driven development, writing readable source code and doing performance analysis. 

I have worked with top companies CTO’s, entrepreneur, product manager and remote teams around the world which include USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Japan. The companies include 570easi, Savvy Aviation, ClearGrid, Tau Marketing Services, Divisible Global, Mycroft AS, Betao Group and Joyz, Inc

My specialities are:

• Transforming design into reality ( HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS, Bootstrap)
• Creating integrative front-end with modern technologies (React.js, Angular, Vue.js,) 
• Building applications backend (PHP, Python, Django, DRF, Laravel)
• Building data-driven and dynamic application (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Automated testing to reduce Bugs and Errors (Unit testing, visual testing, cypress, cucumber)
• Continuous Integrations and auto deployment (circleci, Travis, coveralls, Jenkins)
• CRM, CMS integration and implementation (Zoho CRM, Django CMS)
• API Integrations to enable software to connect with other platforms. 
• Social media and payment processor integrations (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Paypal, Stripe)
• BigQuery, Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
• Project management (Trello, Asana, Freedcamp, YouTrack)
• Version control (Git, BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab),
• deploying to production, with SEO optimised, HTTPS enabled

DevOps (Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS):

• Apache, Nginx,
• Clery, RabbitMQ, Sentry, Docker
• AWS (S3, RDS, EC2)
• Google Cloud

Bonus specialities:

• The desire to understand your motivation behind the project.
• Focus on your business and your goals.
• High-quality communication skills and understanding.
• optimized development to reduce maintenance cost.

Testimonials:

"Shahzad did excellent work on this project. He is very knowledgable with all of our technologies and very happy to go figure something out when nobody has the answer. He communicates his schedule accurately and in advance. Shahzad picked up our tools and methodologies very quickly and has been a very valuable team member over the past several months. His contributions have moved the project along in a meaningful way for our clients, partners and other team members. If you are looking for a smart and reliable engineer, I would highly recommend Shahzad for any similar position!" @thanos Senior Software Engineer at Uber