Owais J. Writing and Projects

Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer Austin, TX 2023 - 2024

  • Technical lead and project manager for Flow, a data pipeline connecting LMS to SIS providers for schools.
  • Adapted new data model to the API, as well as connectors for new integrations.
  • Built architecture around PubSub and BigQuery, and Cloud functions.
  • Data Pipeline Stack: NestJS (with TypeScript), Postgres, Kubernetes (GCP), Redis, Vue.

CAMPUSOPTICS

Software Engineer Austin, TX 2022 - 2023

  • Independently gathered requirements from customers and management to develop new features, including a new dashboard, laying the groundwork for custom dashboards for a higher education Environmental Health and Safety SaaS.
  • Built both offline and online-only features for a React Native application, while adding endpoints to the internal API. Used Cloud Push for hotfixes.
  • Complete Stack: Redis for Sidekiq, Ruby on Rails monolith, Postgres, AWS Elastic Container Service, CloudWatch logs.

TEXAS ADVANCED COMPUTING CENTER

Software Engineer Austin, TX 2020 - 2022

  • Architected the Frontera User Portal, the first implementation of the Core Experience Portal v2, using React, Django, and Postgres.
  • Developed SEO optimization strategy and publication pipeline update on DesignSafe-CI data browser and applications.
  • Advocated for and improved internal testing practices; implemented Pytest for the Django app, and React Testing Library for the web app.
  • Deployment Environment: In-house virtual machines running Kubernetes.

Software Developer Intern 2019 - 2020

  • Assisted Web and Mobile applications team on DesignSafe-CI, a platform for Hazards researchers, primarily in the publications space, to improve the publication pipeline.

EDUCATION

University of Texas

Location: Austin, TX

Master of Science, Major in Computer Science 2022 - Present

Bachelor of Science, Major in Microbiology 2015 - 2017

Bachelor of Science, Major in Biochemistry 2011 - 2015

SKILLS

Languages

Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, SQL

Technologies

Django, React (& React Native), Vue, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Postgres

Professional Interests

Linux, Software Architecture, R, Mobile Development, Svelte, Elixir, and Phoenix