Merub Shaikh

I’m a puzzle-solving bookworm with 2 years of experience in the tech industry in Software Engineering and Quality Assurance, and I live for a good challenge. Whether I'm cracking codes, diving into a page-turner, or leveling up my team, I’m all about finding solutions and delivering results. Hackathons? I crush them—winning 2 out of 3 and counting. No challenge is too big, no task too small. I’m here to inspire, problem-solve, and turn ideas into action with bold moves and a can-do attitude. Ready to tackle any problem and create progress—no excuses, just impact!

Work Experience

Technology International Inc, Karachi, Pakistan

• Architected RESTful APIs using NestJS, incorporating PostgreSQL and Prisma ORM, resulting in a 30% faster query response time and enhanced database interaction efficiency.
• Transitioned the back-end framework from Express.js to NestJS, increasing development efficiency and reducing technical debt by 40%.
• Implemented CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions and applied Test-Driven Development (TDD) to automate security checks and unit tests, ensuring code quality before pushing to GitLab.
• Authored technical documentation for the Pro-Permit project, reducing knowledge transfer time by 30%.
• 15+ reusable Next.js components, accelerating UI development by 25% and guaranteeing interface consistency across the Pro-Permit project, reducing duplicated code.

Systems Ltd, Karachi, Pakistan

• Automated testing processes and scripts integrated into CI / CD pipelines, reducing build time by 30%.
• Maintained quality for 100+ automated test cases in an Agile Scrum environment, decreasing failures by 20%.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to refine requirements and ensure alignment with application design and data integrity standards

FWU Group, Karachi, Pakistan

• Implemented Redux library to improve the accessibility of data between nested components.
• Fixed early-stage bugs of the application using React JS to provide a better user interface and experience.
• Resolved issues concerning request-response API in Node JS and structure of data in mongo dB to provide right information on the website.

Education

Specialization: Software Engineering

• Dean’s List of Honor, Spring 2021
• Dean’s List of Honor, Spring 2023

Skills

• Backend: Java, Python, TypeScript, NestJS, Node.js, REST API
• Frontend: JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Prisma, MongoDB, MySQL
• DevOps & Tools: s Git, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, CI/CD Pipelines

Projects

Developed a web-based invigilation system that captured images via camera and performed real-time object detection to identify prohibited items, along with gaze tracking and face recognition using Python (TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas). Im plemented role-based portals, automated data integration scripts, and stored analytics in a SQL database using stored procedures, improving exam integrity by 40

Built a WinForms + SQL application for restaurant order management, implementing algorithms for order prioritization and ensuring data consistency, reducing wait times, and improving order accuracy.

Certifications

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Honors & Achievements

• Runner-up, DevDay Hackathon powered by Systems Ltd

  May 2023

• Top 10 Ideas, ACM-W Hackathon powered by PWIC

  Feb 2022

• Winner, Built By Her Hackathon by NIC Karachi

  Oct 2021