Hira Shehbaz

CollegeAdvisor

A college admission advising platform designed and developed from scratch to enable students to achieve their dream of getting into their dream college/university with the help of a Mentor

Role

Full-Stack Developer

Contribution

Contributed actively on CA with a primary focus on enhancing performance & efficiency.

• Implemented lazy loading to reduce the data consumption of a webpage, to improve performance and save system resources.
• Ensured a smooth partnership with College Aid Pro with end-to-end-development.
• Took part in cleanup processes and optimization of APIs.

Timeline

• Start: 2023
• Ongoing

Educative DevPath

Devpath empowers software engineering leaders to upskill teams in Generative AI and critical technology. Leading online learning platform made by developers, created for developers.

Role

Full-Stack Developer

Contribution

• Implemented some of the core features including a new google drive widget that allows enterprise leads to incorporate their google drive files into their content in Educative. It helps them leverage existing content instead of having to recreate it on another platform.
• Contributed in development of a collaborative editor.
• Enhanced test coverage for the product using Jest, Selenium and Flask to improve testing coverage by 80%.
• Created Callout Widget that helps users highlight important information, draw attention to key points, and provide context to the content. This feature contributes towards improving the overall readability and user experience of the platform.
• Created another widget that allows the marketing team to create richer/better marketing pages.
• Took part in cleanup processes and optimization.
• Conducted extensive code reviews and wrote dev pagers.
• Added keyboard shortcuts to improve the overall user experience.

Timeline

• Start: 2022
• End: 2022