Hi, I am Talha.
I code & create art. Nice to meet you!

About Me

I’m a full-stack developer interested in making the web look pretty. My experience as a web developer started by exploring a blend between my two favorite mediums: art and technology.

This website is my attempt at sharing the palette; what I have created for myself so far, and a roadmap to connect and contribute over the endless possibilities to collaborate 🥂

📌 Toronto, ON

Education

Skillset

Experience

Mobile Application Developer

The Weather Network

Developed the new Weather Network app from concept to production, leveraging React Native to deliver a seamless cross-platform experience

Full Stack Developer

Extend Inc.

Developed and maintained suite of applications for millions of warranty contracts. Supported the servicing part of the business to provide the best customer experience by automating workflow for making claims on damaged products, generating email notifications, tracking delivery and managing the third-party integration for servicing vendors

Full Stack Developer

Health Care Originals Inc.

Led the mobile application used to control an IoT device over BLE, supporting the mission to revolutionize respiratory monitoring using technology. Transformed the mobile app entirely to move towards an Offline First architecture, improved user-experience by supporting interactive data-visualizations. Contributed towards streamlining the CI/CD pipeline to bridge the gaps between development and operational activities

Mobile Application Developer

Skillz Inc.

Translated Zeplin mock-ups to front-end code​ for the ~2M daily active users at the leading e-sport platform in mobile gaming. Fixed bugs and regression tested features to prepare for the end of release cycles. Worked in an AGILE setup, and was responsible for planning, estimating and developing entire features for release

Projects

SpotLyrics

Spotify, but for Lyrics (Angular + Ionic)

Created a Spotify clone, that looks exactly like the Spotify app, but displays the song lyrics instead. Implemented in Angular + Ionic with integration of an external Musixmatch API. Learned extensive use of the RxJS library for reactively fetching search queries and lyrics. Lazy loaded components to improve initial load times for the application. Created a responsive design to support tablets and browsers.

Dynobar

Realtime priority sorting bar-chart

Created a React npm module that helps visualize live streams of data using a dynamic bar-chart. Worked on reducing re-renders and reflow of the HTML to improve FPS by 20% and creating easy-to-understand API documentation for the end-users. Created a web-socket to continuously fetch from the Twitter API

Subreddit Classifier

Who says what

Collaborated with a team to transform content from upto 3 subreddit’s into feature vectors and labels using scikit-learn. Used vectors to train a support vector classifier and classify which subreddit a comment may belong to. Examined learning curves vs ROC curves for analytics and tuning, achieving an average accuracy of ~76%