ISLAM ELBASTAWEESY
Cairo, Egypt • - •-
SUMMARY
Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 15+ years of experience specializing in frontend development, UI/UX
optimization, and modern web application architecture. Expertise in JavaScript (Vue.js, React, Angular)
and backend technologies (Laravel, Node.js). Passionate about building high-performance, scalable,
and visually engaging applications. Experienced in Agile workflows, code optimization, and crossfunctional team collaboration.
Skills
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Languages: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
Frameworks & Libraries: React.js, Remix, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js, Nuxt.js
Styling & UI: Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, SASS, LESS, CSS-in-JS (Styled Components, Emotion)
Component Libraries: Material-UI (MUI), Ant Design, Chakra UI
State Management: Redux, Vuex, Pinia, Context API, NgRx
Web Performance & Accessibility: Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code splitting, Webpack/Babel
optimization, a11y best practices
Languages & Frameworks: Node.js, Express.js, Nest.js, PHP, Laravel
API Design & Integration: REST, GraphQL (Apollo Client), gRPC
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB
Caching & Real-Time: Redis, Socket.io
Testing: PHPUnit, Pest, Jest, Cypress, React Testing Library, Vitest
Cloud Services: AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, CloudFront)
Deployment & Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
CI/CD & Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab, GitHub Actions
VS Code, WebStorm, Postman, Figma, browser dev tools
Agile, Scrum, Jira, Trello, Slack
Git-based workflows, code reviews, cross-team collaboration
Mentorship and leadership in distributed teams
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Full-Stack Developer, GovAssist (REMOTE |-)
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Scaled immigration SaaS to 50k+ MAU, optimizing Vue.js/React frontend & Laravel backend.
Cut feature deployment time by 40% by engineering React/Redux form libraries for 3 products.
Architected hybrid Node.js/Laravel APIs, leveraging Redis queues for 30% faster response times &
99.9% uptime.
Improved frontend performance by 35%, optimizing SSR/CDN for faster page loads.
Boosted backend throughput by 50%, integrating Elasticsearch & Laravel Octane.
Built real-time analytics dashboard, increasing user engagement by 40%.
Processed $1M+/month via Stripe/Dlocal, ensuring PCI-compliant failovers.
Automated AWS stack (EC2/Lambda), scaling 4x faster & cutting cloud costs by 25%.
Reduced onboarding time by 50%, implementing JWT/OAuth 2.0 SSO.
Maintained 98% uptime via Kubernetes CI/CD pipeline.
Decreased production bugs by 30%, achieving 85% test coverage (Cypress/Jest).
Automated data pipelines, reducing manual processing workload by 25%.
Senior Frontend Engineer, UGroupMedia (REMOTE |-)
Built a personalized video rendering engine that dynamically merged user data into calls/streams.
Improved form performance by 35% using Angular, RxJS, and NgRx, reducing load times by 20%.
Achieved 99.9% security audit compliance by implementing RBAC, preventing 200+ monthly
breaches.
Managed $1.2M/year Stripe subscriptions, ensuring 99.5% uptime.
Led the migration from a legacy app to React/Next.js, increasing SEO traffic by 180%.
Reduced API latency to 0.75s using gRPC/protobuf, cutting payload sizes by 40%.
Optimized JS bundles by 52% via code-splitting, improving page load speeds by 40%.
Accelerated MySQL queries to 0.5s by implementing Redis caching and indexing.
Enabled real-time updates for 10k+ users with NgRx state management.
Implemented multilingual support (4 languages), reducing translation processing time by 50%.
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Senior Full-Stack Developer, Public Prosecution of Kuwait -)
• Designed and developed a scalable Investigation & Case Tracking portal, digitizing legal case
management.
• Built 15 dynamic UI modules using Vue.js, enhancing UI performance, reactivity, and case processing
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Automated 29 workflows, reducing manual case investigation, tracking, and document processing
time by 70%.
Developed 36 custom reports & data visualization tools, enabling real-time case tracking and
insights.
Optimized MySQL and MongoDB database performance, cutting query response times by 50%.
Implemented real-time case updates using Socket.io & Node.js, significantly improving user
experience.
Full-Stack Developer, Free Lance -)
• Laravel Framework Course | Hassoub Academy
Developed and produced a comprehensive 42-hour video course on Laravel Framework, adopted by
500+ students, enhancing the academy’s technical curriculum.
• Furniture Hub E-Commerce Platform
Led end-to-end development of a scalable full-stack multivendor platform (web + mobile app)
enabling suppliers to publish furniture listings and customers to browse/purchase products using
Angular JS, Node.js, Ionic, Firebase, and MySQL. Integrated real-time chat, payment gateways, and
Firebase-powered analytics, serving 1,200+ active users
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Commerce, Business Administration
Ain Shams University, Egypt, Cairo
Languages: English, Arabic
Sep 2006 - Oct 2010
