About

Amaan Iqbal is a skilled Software Engineer with a passion for designing algorithms that solve real-world problems. He holds an Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. With over 4 years of experience in Full Stack Website Development, Amaan is well-versed in Python, Javascript, Integration, Kafka, Spring Boot, Spring, Web, Typescript, Frontend, AWS, OpenCV, ML, PHP, and UI. Amaan has a keen interest in contributing to Open Source projects and has previously contributed to CDLI, Mozilla, and SugarLabs. He was a Google Summer of Code Student for CDLI in 2019 and mentored for CDLI at Google Summer of Code in 2020 and 2021, as well as SugarLabs at Google Code-in in 2018 and 2019. Currently, Amaan is working as a Google Summer of Code Mentor at Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, where he assists applicants in creating proposals for the Design Integration and Accessibility Audit project. He evaluates student proposals, identifies goals and milestones for the coding period, and co-mentors selected student developers throughout the GSoC 2021 program. He also assesses student performance and provides feedback on their progress. In the past, Amaan has worked as a Software Engineer at Acko, where he maintained and upgraded the entire payout service using Spring Boot, improved the platform authorization layer, and configured rules on Amazon EventBridge. He also developed a responsive 404 Error Page using plain HTML/CSS and JavaScript and wrote unit tests in Rust to improve code coverage. Amaan led the development of the front-end for the advisor portal in React, facilitating around 60% of the total car insurance sales. He also wrote migration scripts using Python to port multiple vendor data into the new table and developed a script using Python to parse the CSV and decrypt the tracker attribute. Amaan's education history includes a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, and an Intermediate degree in Computer Science from Delhi Public School, Ranchi. Overall, Amaan is a highly skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in Full Stack Website Development, Open Source contributions, and mentoring. He is seeking to leverage his technical skills with a software giant and make a positive impact on end-users' lives.