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Omar Mirza

Omar Mirza

Front End Developer

Specialisations:   Developer    

| Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020

London
 based 
senior 
contract 
front 
end 
developer 
with 
12 
years 
experience. Proficient 
in 
taking 
complex 
projects 
from 
conception 
to 
reality 
using 
solid programming 
principles 
and 
agile 
methodologies. Forward 
thinking 
approach
 to developing 
front 
end 
architecture 
that’s 
both scalable 
and 
modular 
whilst 
also 
conforming
 to
 web
 accessibility 
standards.

Client summary: HeinekenRSSB (Rail Safety & Standards Board)Sopra SteriaVirtusaRunpathFoundryThe Bio AgencyFoundryWintonAddison Lee
Experience:
Heineken (December 2019 - February 2020)
  • Hired as the senior front end developer in order to drive the front end development for project Refresh.
  • A greenfield single page angular 8 application for Heineken with the purpose to completely modernise an existing legacy code base.
  • Mentoring other developers with regards to front end development including angular and e2e testing.
  • Assisted QA automation on jira stories by writing e2e tests using protractor, gherkin and chai.
  • Collaborating with external design agency in order to ensure designs are feasible for development.
RSSB (Rail Safety & Standards Board) (September 2019 - November 2019)
  • Hired to work on technical refactor project for the main RSSB website.
  • Complete rewrite of existing HTML markup and CSS using modern HTML5, SASS and BEM methodology.
  • Complete rewrite of existing javascript via latest modern ES6 coding standards.
Sopra Steria (April 2019 - September 2019)
  • Developed a single page application for Skills for Care, an adult social care organisation.
  • An angular 8 project built with cutting edge modern tech in order to facilitate workforce development.
  • Gained development experience with GDS. (GOV.UK Design System)
  • Adhered to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. (WCAG 2.1)
Virtusa (February 2019 - March 2019)
  • Worked on APIX, an angular 6 application designed for collaboration between financial Institutions and FinTechs.
  • Developed new features and addressed high priority bug fixes under tight deadlines in order to hit release target.
Runpath (September 2018 - January 2019)
  • Developed a mortgage underwriting tool for Experian.
  • An angular 6 single page application developed to manage and list mortgage applications, view income and expenditure transactions via open banking and data visualisation.
  • Responsible for client-side code delivery as well as smooth integration with BE restful API's.
  • Utilised ng charts library in order to present data visualisation on the ui.
Foundry (May 2018 - September 2018)
  • Rejoined Foundry for second time to work on Flix project using angular.
The Bio Agency (December 2017 - May 2018)
  • Developed e-commerce single page application for Arrow, one of the biggest electronic component distributers.
  • A b2b angular project developed to manage orders, quotes, bill of materials, notifications and forecasts.
  • Developed a greenfield single page application with angular 5, typescript and webpack.
  • State management with ng store and rxJs development tools.
  • Maintained 92% of code coverage with unit tests.
Foundry (September 2017 - December 2017)
  • Worked on Flix, a visual story development tool for feature film, TV production and games.
  • Designed to promote fast-paced creative collaboration amongst directors, producers, story artists and editors.
  • Developed a greenfield desktop application with angular 4, typescript, electron and webpack.
  • Developed a reusable components with a focus on performance for the best user experience.
  • Unit testing components and services with a BDD approach.
  • Gained development experience with electron and clarity ui.
Winton (June 2017 - August 2017)
  • Worked on Winton careers project. A greenfield angular project that allows external candidates to view and apply for current job opportunities.
  • Developed a greenfield single page app with angular 4, typescript and webpack.
  • Developed re usable private npm packages in order to be consumed by a number of internal single page apps.
Addison Lee (March 2017 - June 2017)
  • Worked on the Global Booking System for Addison Lee.
  • A greenfield angular 2 project that consolidates and unifies the booking experience for both b2b and b2c customers.
  • Developed a greenfield single page app with angular 2 and typescript.
  • Maintained 80% of code coverage with unit tests.
  • Developed end to end (e2e) tests to automate ui testing.
  • Developed a modular app with reusable components in order to facilitate whitelabelling.
Qualifications
  • UI Stack (HTML5, CSS3, CSS 
Grid, Responsive 
design, SASS
/
LESS, Flexbox, BEM)
  • UI Libraries (Angular 
material, Bootstrap, GOV.UK 
Design 
System
(GDS), Clarity 
UI)
  • Javascript Stack (Javascript, ES6, Typescript, RxJs, Angular, Webpack, Node, NPM
/
Yarn, Moment, Lo 
dash, React)
  • Unit Testing (Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Chai)
  • E2E Testing (Protractor, Cypress, Gherkin, Selenium, Webdriver
 IO)
  • Data
 Visualisation (Highcharts, Ng2 
charts)
  • REST (RESTful 
API, Swagger, Postman, Mocky)
  • Design (Photoshop, Sketch, Invision)
  • State
 Management (NGRX, NGXS)
  • Code
 Reviews (Pull 
requests, Pair 
programming, Crucible)
  • Devops (Travis, Jenkins, Amazon
 Web
 Services, Docker)
  • Other (Git,
 Git 
flow, 
Slack, 
MySQL, 
Trello, 
zeplin, 
Grunt, 
Gulp, 
YAML,
 Electron, 
font 
awesome, 
icomoon,
 masonry)