About Me
I'm a Front End Developer from Toronto, ON.
Born in Montreal, raised in Jordan and, until recently, I called Ottawa home. I am a Toronto based Full Stack Developer with a passion for front-end development and UX. I gave a TED talk earlier while I was developing my programming skills, and want to continue learning and growing as a developer.
TED Speaker
I presented a TED talk at TEDxYouth@Amman on the how programming can be used to further education.
(Audio: Arabic) No subtitles avaliable.
Published Academic
I presented a paper at the PROMOTO'15 workshop (part of SPLASH 2015) on "Collaborative Annotations for Large Touchscreen Web Applications"
Minor in Classics
My interest in history and learning about my background (Mesopotamia) made me take a few courses in Classics and this quickly turned into a minor.
Miran Mirza
Skills
Work Experience
Senior Frontend Developer / GlossGenius
Oct 2023 – Present
Frontend Engineering Lead / PC Financial
Feb 2022 – Oct 2023
- Interviewed and onboarded new employees, growing the team by 100% within 4 months
- Defined project scope, gathered requirements and managed milestones to complete projects on-time and under budget
- Performed managerial duties including performance evaluations, biweekly 1:1 meetings, goal planning and onboarding
Technical Lead / Royal Bank of Canada
Mar 2020 – Feb 2022
- Defined system structures, interfaces and guiding principles for organization, software design and implementation.
- Led team to reduce time to market for new products by 50% in 6 months for migrating legacy flows over to a modern Angular frontend.
- Led the frontend team to deliver COVID relief financial programs, new initiatives for business banking as well as enhanced peer-to-peer payments.
Technical Lead / Intersect
Oct 2018 – Mar 2020
- Created various reusable components and interaction flows
- Engineered form based applications using reactive form resulting in an increase in conversion rate for credit card applications
- Set up integrations with backend through swagger contracts using RxJS and reactive state management using NgRx
- Provided technical guidance and onboarding to developers, and conducted code review.
- Ran scrum ceremonies including stand-ups, planning and backlog refinement
Full Stack Developer / Filament Creative
Mar 2018 – Oct 2018
- Developed client projects in a creative agency environment using a variety of technologies including Angular 5, React Native, CSS Grid, Flexbox and JavaScript
- Crafted reusable components using Angular from user designs and client input
- Researched and layed out groundwork for porting an existing iOS swift based app to a new React Native architecture
Software Developer / Espial
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
- Developed various front-end and middleware components in JavaScript
- Worked on converting mockups into functioning products
- Used Amazon AWS and Alexa APIs to develop an Alexa Skill in JavaScript ES6 and NodeJS
- Participated in scrum sessions: stand-ups, planning and backlog refinement
Web UI Developer (Contract) / Irdeto Canada
Jan 2016 – Aug 2016
- Developed reusable web components using AngularJS directives from static mock ups provided
- Crafted the UI/UX for an online portal using AngularJS, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- Engineered a RESTful API using the MEAN stack to aggregate data into a central portal
Research Support Software Developer / Carleton University
May 2015 - Aug 2016
- Co-authored and published a paper in the ACM Digital Library (part of PROMOTO 2015)
- Presented relating to the paper talk at PROMOTO 2015 as part of the workshop
- Developed various prototypes using JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and D3 front-end framework
- Re-wrote code base to support multi-touch input and gestures using JavaScript and Interact.js
Education
BCS Computer Science / Carleton University
Honours BCS Computer Science - Greek and Roman Studies Minor