Faisal Alhassan

7 years of experience Ghana

Faisal is a Software Engineer with over 5 years of work experience in the industry. Passionate about creating life-changing applications that create value for people and businesses.

He enjoys working as a part of a team, but leading and inspiring one as well. A TDD advocate, he loves to follow the SOLID principle.

When not working, you will find him spending time with his family or playing football. He enjoys all sporting activities and yoga is his therapy.

NodeJS React Native ReactJS Nest.JS Next Js PHP Laravel JavaScript MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB

Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Jun, 2021 - Present

Gsquad.io

• Worked with a distributed team of 6 to build an event management application
• Contributed in architecture and development of both frontend and backend applications
• Used React & Material-UI for frontend
• Used Node.js/Nest.js for backend
• Wrote tests with Jest and Cypress
Technologies: NodeJS, ReactJS, AWS, PostgreSQL, Nest.JS, JavaScript, Jest, Material UI, Next Js, Prisma

Senior Full Stack Developer

Sep, 2017 - May, 2021

IT Consortium

• IT Consortium (ITC) is Ghana's and one of Africa's leading FinTech companies
• Most payment services in Ghana and across Africa use ITC's systems.
• Worked as a full stack developer
• Built applications for use in sectors like education, finance, corporate institutions, oil & gas sector, and so on.
• Team lead for a team of 3, task with mentoring and guiding team members to find their feet and understand industry standards.
Technologies: NodeJS, ReactJS, Angular.js, PHP, AWS, Laravel, MySQL, Tailwind CSS

Backend Developer

Dec, 2016 - Jun, 2017

WBR

• Worked on one major project for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
• Built an application to manage their dockets and case files.
• Successfully demoed and rolled out project.
Technologies: PHP, Laravel, MySQL

Education

Bachelor in Computer Engineering

2013 - 2017

University of Ghana, Legon

Achievements

Accomplishments

Deans Honary List

Jan, 2014

Honored as an outstanding student by the Dean if the College of Applied Sciences at the University of Ghana, Legon for attaining a GPA of 3.76 for the semester.