Suleman Shahab
Oshawa,Canada
Summary
Innovative software engineer and technical lead with over 11 years of experience in full-stack development, frontend engineering, and API integrations. Adept at leading cross-functional teams and aligning solutions with business goals. Demonstrated ability to overcome technical challenges and deliver scalable, high-quality digital products. Skilled at fostering collaboration and driving impactful results in production environments.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
Years of Technical Lead experience
5
5
Years of frontend development experience
7
7
Years of full stack development experience
Work History
Technical Lead - Sr. Full Stack Engineer
Aviva Canada - TCS
Toronto, Canada
07.2016 - Current
- Spearheaded UI modernization for auto and property buy-online insurance portals, leveraging Angular 17 to enhance user experience and system efficiency.
- Engineered paperless claims and digital document delivery solutions using Java, Apache Camel, and MongoDB, optimizing document workflows while significantly reducing operational costs.
- Led and developed various API integrations with critical insurance business systems, including Guidewire, document management, marketing platforms, and broker management systems, ensuring seamless data flow, and enhanced operational efficiency.
- Engineered Moneris payment integration across policy management systems, replacing legacy solution with secure 3DS system for improved transaction security.
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, solution architects, Product Owners, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
Lead Full Stack Developer (Part Time)
PFM Scheduling Services
Edmonton, Canada
05.2016 - 06.2024
- Developed a dynamic, responsive scheduling grid using Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, CouchDB, and Wijmo Flexgrid, significantly improving nurse rotation management efficiency.
- Led a team of developers, using JIRA for Agile project management and automation tools to streamline build, deployment, and testing, ensuring efficient delivery of enhancements and new features.
- Optimized the technology stack and managed Linux Debian servers and cloud VM-based production environments, enhancing application performance and scalability.
- Designed and developed the company website with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, ensuring responsive design, accessibility and SEO optimization.
- Created data visualization tool using Angular and D3 to enhance analytical capabilities for complex data structures
- Implemented a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Bitbucket, automating deployments and process management using pm2 for all applications and environments.
Frontend/UI Web Developer
City of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
04.2015 - 05.2016
- Developed the City of Calgary's primary single sign-on system for accessing municipal services, delivering a responsive UI using ASP.NET, HTML5, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and jQuery, enhancing user experience.
- Conducted UAT, UX, and accessibility testing to validate performance and improve user satisfaction.
- Refactored the City's Non-employee Record System using the SOA framework with C# and ASP.NET, enhancing system maintainability.
- Managed tight timelines and coordinated with multiple departments to successfully achieve project objectives.
Web Application Developer
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada
05.2013 - 04.2015
- Developed user and data administration modules using HTML5, JavaScript, AngularJS, Node.js, CouchDB, jQuery, and Bootstrap for an AIbased scheduling system, streamlining user management.
- Built a complex grid system and metrics page using jQuery-based JqGrid for the unionized nurse scheduling project, improving scheduling accuracy.
- Coded and tested scheduling rules by interpreting Collective Bargaining Agreements and implementing them in XML, ensuring compliance.
- Migrated the database from MySQL to CouchDB and implemented unit tests using Mocha JS, enhancing system reliability and performance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering, Software Engineering
Sir Syed University
Karachi, Pakistan01.2012
Skills
- User interface development
- Agile methodology
- Jira project management
- API design and development
- API integrations
- Technology stacks expertise
- MEAN and MERN frameworks
- Serverless architecture
- Systems development lifecycle management
- Programming languages proficiency
- Angular framework
- JavaScript programming
- Nodejs environment
- Java programming
- Insurance domain expertise
- Microservices development and deployment
- Cloud automation strategies
- AWS cloud services
- Product scoping and discovery
Certification
- TCS, Awarded highest annual performance bands. Acquired certifications with TCS internal learning platforms.
- Amazon Cloud, In Progress, AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.
- CEP SSUET Cloud Computing and Mobile Application, Certified for Object Oriented Programmer using C# and JavaScript.
- Microsoft Certified Professional, for HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
Timeline
Technical Lead - Sr. Full Stack Engineer
Aviva Canada - TCS
07.2016 - Current
Lead Full Stack Developer (Part Time)
PFM Scheduling Services
05.2016 - 06.2024
Frontend/UI Web Developer
City of Calgary
04.2015 - 05.2016
Web Application Developer
University of Alberta
05.2013 - 04.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering, Software Engineering
Sir Syed University