Wahid Shafique

647-783-2943 | Toronto, Canada

Programmer | Web Dev

Github | Linkedin  | Blog | wahidshafique42@gmail.com

Hi, I'm a game programmer turned web developer living and working in Toronto. I love building and thinking about things from first principles. Some technologies I know are:

Javascript, Typescript, HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), React, Node, Vue, Styled System/Components, Browser Extensions, Redux/RTK, Cypress, RTL, Gatsby, Nuxt, Next, Svelte/Sveltekit, XState, Git, Unity 3D, Jest, Storybook, Git

Experience

Lead Web Developer | Digital Public Square | March 2022 - Present

• Creating sustainable documentation (ADR/SWOT on Confluence), coding standards, ethics/licensing and performance audits to help push our small team to be effective.

• Mentoring junior developers, pair programming

• Working with smaller tools such as Sveltekit and XState for exploration purposes, alongside mainstays like Next.js and Gatsby

• Maintaining various large React projects

• Led the adoption of SaaS, cutting down monthly costs by 80%

Senior Web Developer | Digital Public Square | February 2021 - March 2022

• Used SSR/SSG to make something that was accessible (measured against actual screen readers) and fast (passed lighthouse + simulated stress tests)

• Created an end to end platform for survey taking that reached more than 500,000 users, scaffolded using Airtable and Gatsby.

• Examples of it in action: Ukraine Trivia, Know It Or Not, Small Trivia (Chinese)

Web Developer | Gubagoo | March 2020 - February 2021

• Worked with React/Redux on a platform specializing in car buying online.

• Added vital process and tooling changes (EsLint, Prettier, RTL [React Testing Library], Typescript)

• Created modules in islands architecture pertaining to car trade-in evaluation.

• Initiated an "atoms" first design system, which normalized all of our styling into one consumable module in a Monorepo.

Web/Extension Developer | Windscribe | October 2018 - March 2020

• Worked on a web extension serving over 1,000,000+ users using React/Redux and Styled Components

• Worked with both the Firefox and Chrome extension API, wrote spoofing code to intercept tracking

• Drove adoption of Styled System

Web Developer | Rich Media | September 2017 - October 2018

• Used JQuery and Angular for most projects

• Created an internal bug tracking tool that was an adapter to Bugzilla. Simplified our bug tracking for sales and QA

• Created digital experiences for clients such as Samsung, Walmart, CIBC

Education

Game Programming

Associate's Degree, George Brown College | 2014 - 2017

English Literature

Toronto Metropolitan University, Bachelor's Degree | 2012 - 2014 (Partial)