About

Mustaque Ahmed is a meticulous Software Engineer with 2.5 years of experience in developing and scaling backend services and front-end apps. He has a proven track record of delivering production-ready solutions that generate tangible results and create an impact. He is passionate about contributing to open source projects and has a Github profile where he showcases his contributions. Currently, Mustaque is working as an Open Source Developer at Jetpack, a WordPress security, performance, marketing, and design tool. He has implemented lazy loading for the Spotify shortcode to improve initial load time and enhanced site listing under the network admin tab to show current network id sites that help users in better readability and understanding. He has also worked on the Boost plugin to detect x-frame-deny header and return detailed reports to the user. In addition to his current role, Mustaque has also contributed to the Gutenberg project, which aims to revolutionize the entire publishing experience as much as Gutenberg did the printed word. He has worked on some code improvements and bug fixes, refactored existing code, and updated repo documentation. He is an active participant in the weekly team discussions and updates. Prior to Jetpack, Mustaque worked as a Software Development Engineer at CSG, where he built an API to support custom pricing for the customer and its hierarchy customer based on multiple parameters managed by the sales team. He also contributed to the Account Micro-service of Ascendon Invision product to store part payments and adjustments in DynamoDB and built an automation script for AWS DynamoDB data sanitization, which reduced 80%-90% of the test failures during End-to-end testing. Mustaque has also worked as a Software Engineer at Navigus, where he was responsible for building Unified payments and notification microservices for generating payments links and sending email and messages. He has productionized scalable, robust REST APIs and Middleware using Django Rest Framework and created data models and handled a large amount of data using databases like MongoDB and MySQL. He has also worked on end-to-end front-end development for various products of Navigus, which supports complex data, extensive forms, and dynamic UI components using Angular and Typescript. Mustaque holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Information Technology from Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran. He has expertise in software engineering, testing, AWS, microservices, frontend, Kubernetes, backend, Python, MySQL, Django, RabbitMQ, Javascript, Typescript, MongoDB, Azure, UI, and AngularJS.