
Muhammad Ansar Butt
About
Full Stack MERN Developer | Masters Student @UZH
Software Engineer with 3 years of experience in Full-stack development, Cloud Infrastructure, and DevOps. Proficient in React.js, Next.js, Node.js, Typescript, Python, Flask, Jenkins, Tailwind, and MongoDB, with a proven track record of driving performance optimization and building scalable user-focused solutions.
Skills
Google Cloud Platform
Javascript
Jenkins
Python
React.js
TypeScript
Open for
parttime
internship
freelancer
Work Experience
Educative
2023-07 - 2024-09
Software Developer II
Other
fulltime
• Reduced container startup time by 30% by creating microservices in Python, optimizing resource consumption, and minimizing deployment latencies to handle fluctuating workloads better. • Set up Miniflare to enhance the local development and testing of Cloudflare workers while integrating it into DevOps workflows, enhancing deployment and testing processes, and reducing deployment errors by 50%. • Implemented various Sitewide marketing campaigns, using Next.js and React, boosting user engagement and retention by 10%. • Performed various Core Web Vitals optimizations to enhance website performance, focusing on improving metrics such as LCP, FID, and CLS utilizing lazy loading, code splitting, and server-side rendering techniques to reduce load times by 20% and achieve smoother user interactions. • Played an instrumental role in Content Caching to improve performance and load times of paywalled content. Utilized caching strategies to store frequently accessed lessons, reducing server load by 60% and reducing content load time by 40%, hence enhancing user experience and increasing user satisfaction. • Executed various Performance Optimisations, such as Dead Code Cleanup, to reduce the amount of static and unused code, reducing static analysis time by 10%, hence reducing resource consumption and improving developer productivity.
Educative
2022-07 - 2023-07
Software Developer I
Other
fulltime
• Led initiatives to optimize the CI/CD pipeline, using Jenkins to streamline the software development lifecycle and improving overall efficiency after careful pipeline assessment, scalability planning, and performance tuning, reducing resource consumption by 15% and boosting developer productivity by 30%. • Laid down the foundations for a comprehensive Design System to speed up the creation of unified designs and boost developer productivity by 20%, by creating a separate package for the shared UI components. • Led the Removal of Redux from the application, simplifying state management, reducing boilerplate code, and component coupling. Implemented modern alternatives like React Context and hooks, enhancing performance and maintainability. Served as a prerequisite for further developer initiatives like micro-service creation. • Led the Removal of Styled Components to streamline our codebase and improve performance. Refactored styles using CSS modules, ensuring maintainability and consistency across the application while simultaneously boosting application responsiveness by 5%. • Was responsible for implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, using Terraform, to automate the deployment and management of CloudFlare-related services improving scalability, efficiency, and collaboration.
Academic Experience
Other -
2018.07 - 2022.07
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Computer Science
University of Zurich -
2024.09 - now
Master of Science, MSc in Software Systems