Astro

Contributing to Haqqman’s engineering work since interning here in 2023, now focused on backend development across production Node.js APIs and critical backend modules.

• Design and maintain scalable Node.js APIs handling production traffic.
• Improve system reliability by refactoring critical backend modules.
• Optimize database queries for performance and maintainability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver end-to-end backend solutions.

• Node.js
• REST APIs
• Database optimization

Joined the HNG Internship with no backend experience, learning HTTP and backend fundamentals in the first weeks. When our team’s first architecture was falling short and we risked elimination, each backend developer proposed an improved design. Mine was chosen as the simplest and most practical, and I was chosen to lead the backend. We became finalists after shipping an image categorization service that combines ML-generated labels with a custom tag-matching algorithm.

• Led the backend intern team to design and deploy an image categorization service.
• Designed the system architecture and integrated AI-powered object detection APIs.
• Improved code quality through structured code reviews.

• Go
• REST APIs
• Object detection