Aleem Haq

Computer Scientist | Software Engineer

About Me

Hi, my name’s Aleem and I’m a Computer Science graduate and a software developer. I develop general purpose software, mobile and web applications. I have worked at a number of companies gaining teamwork and leadership skills.

I am most skilled at: Functional Programming and Ping Pong

Education

McMaster University

Honours Computer Science (B.A.Sc.)

Graduated May 2022

Established in 1881, now located on a beautiful campus in the waterfall capital of the world, Hamilton Ontario, Canada

During my time at McMaster university, I developed my technical skillset that I take now to my career, such as teamwork and delivering quality projects on time. I thouroughly enjoyed my time in school and learnt a lot about a healthy work life balance.

Experience

Urbint

Intermediate Software Engineer in Test (SDET)

August 2021 - December 2021

urbint.com

Artificial intelligence to predict threats to workers and critical infrastructure

  • Working with Django framework, Fast API, React.js and Cucumber etc.
  • Load and performance testing, mutation testing, testing strategies and modern QA practices

Equestrian Show Manager

Software Engineer

March 2021 - August 2021

myesm.ca

A web app for managing professional horse racing shows

  • Working with Ruby Rails MVC framework, React.js and Cucumber
  • Added Square payment integration for real-time online card payments, upgrading the older pay-in-person model

theScore

Software Engineer

April 2018 - August 2019

thescore.com

Top news, game statistics and online sports gambling

  • Developed an automated testing pipeline using Jenkins CI, Appium and Cucumber BDD for theScore’s mobile sports betting platform
  • Implemented a Python framework to conduct load testing for API and server resources. Identifying and resolving major server and devops issues
  • Wrote scripts to automate load capacity and latency testing of theScore’s live chat feature
  • Responsible for tracking, assessing and triaging bugs for theScore’s internal bug tracking system

theScore

Software Engineer Intern

May 2016 - August 2017

thescore.com

Top news, game statistics and online sports gambling

  • Contributed to development and testing of theScore’s Android and iOS applications
  • Developed UAT testing framework using Appium, which reduced a 2 week manual regression testing process to a 15 hour automated testing pipeline
  • Over 500, 000 lines of code contributions to theScore’s Github repository

Projects

Simulated Virtual Reality for modelling risk aversion

  • A virtual reality casino, used to model how human behaviour is affected by risk aversion
  • Built using Unity game engine and HTC Vive
  • Project used in a neuroscience and economics research paper

A Little More About Me

Alongside my interests in networks and software engineering some of my other interests and hobbies are:

  • Rock climbing/Bouldering
  • Gaming
  • Weight Lifting
  • Game Development

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