Salim Mahboubi

BurdaForward is one of the biggest digital publishers in Germany, leading brands such as FOCUS Online, CHIP, BUNTE.de and The Weather Channel. While working here I got to:

• Drive the development of new functionalities for the Bunte.de website, mobile app, internal CMS, and other internal tools, utilizing a full-stack approach and leveraging technologies such as ES6, Typescript, Vue.js, Vuetify, Node.js, REST, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, CI/CD, and rush monorepo.
• Challenge the status quo and initiate technical tasks and collaboration improvements, such as introducing end-to-end testing and exploring different rendering ideas.
• Work on data migrations, ensuring seamless transitions and maintaining data integrity between legacy systems to new ones.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation, facilitating knowledge transfer and ensuring seamless collaboration among team members.
• Take ownership of code quality, conducting rigorous testing and debugging to deliver reliable and efficient software applications.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, actively seeking opportunities to optimize technical and relational processes and enhance team productivity.

Share Now is a free floating and station based car sharing company active in 16 cities in 8 countries in Europe.

Responsibilities:
- For the Share Now website and mobile webviews, both being Single Page Applications:
      * Developing new Vue.js / TypeScript components as well as maintaining existing ones.
      * Maintaining and developing the architecture, tooling and infrastructure behind these projects.
- Collaborating with different teams and stakeholders from DevOps to other developers passing by SEO managers and Analytics experts to make the website and other products more robust and complete.
- Clarifying the complexities of our systems through documentation and 1-on-1s with other developers.
- Collaborative decision-making on approaches of technical challenges using many methods such as A/B testing.
- Reviewing code and pair programming with other developers to keep a high standard of our code.

Skills Used: ES6, Typescript, Vue.js, Vuex, Nuxt.js, Node.js, Fastify, REST, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, BEM, contentful, Jest / Cypress testing, CI/CD, redis, some Docker, some Kubernetes.

Achievements:
- Reduced downtime caused by programming errors to 0, for more than 6 months, by adding more testing and focusing on a strict process.
- Increased lighthouse performance and SEO scores.
- Successfully helped hire and onboard other developers.

1- Developed a Vue.js web app to showcase a suite of products as hotspots on an image.
2- Rewrote parts (Mainly SQL queries) of a legacy PHP REST API to consume data from a database other than the one it was originally designed to interact with.
  * Added functionality to an android app so it interacts correctly with the rewritten API.
3- Helped a PhD candidate implement some multiprocessing into a robot simulator.
4- Helped an established researcher with migrating to Python to deal with big datasets using Pandas and Dask
5- Mentoring and teaching 3 beginners in python programming, both onsite and online.
Skills used: Vue.js, Javascript / Typescript, CSS, SCSS, PHP, SQL, Python, Pandas, Dask

Helped build a food delivery app suite.

Skills used: Angular, Ionic, Python, Flask and MongoDB.
Achievements:
- Rewrote repeating code as reusable components.
- Reduced delivery time by making the order notifications more noticeable to restaurants and delivery people

As the main and first developer of a new company, I have got to start many projects from start to finish including the company's website and a prototype of an android native mobile app.
Achievements: Developed custom Wordpress / Woocommerce plugins and tweaks while learning about the platform. Helped new recruits start working

Skills used: PHP, Wordpress, Javascript, Java, Android SDK, Postgresql, and Python

Developed a mobile application on Android intended for Djezzy, a big Algerian mobile network operator, including features such as secure communication with a server, storage and syncing of contacts and calendars, and processing received SMS.
Skills used: Java, Android SDK, PHP, MySQL

- Coded for fun within a small team
- President: April 2016 - Dec 2016.
- Taught 4 workshops (HTML5, Android, Hour of Code©, Google Drive & Docs for collaborative work ) 
Skills used: Java, Android SDK, Event Management, Social Media Management, Emailing campaigns, Teaching

Specialization: Education Technology
Important Modules:  Software engineering, Advanced Databases, Human-Machine Interaction, Interactive Environments for Human Learning, Multi Agent Systems, Logic for AI, Data Analysis, Operational Research.