Talha Khan

DesignGurus•Redmond, Washington, US (Remote)

• 0-to-1 MVP Launch: As the first engineering hire, spearheaded the frontend architecture and delivered a production-ready MVP within 4 months.
• Core Feature Engineering: Architected an Interactive Course Player featuring Monaco Editor integration, quizzes, and a custom video component serving thousands of daily students.
• Cross-Platform Growth: Developed a React Native (Expo) mobile application for flashcard learning and a custom Puppeteer-based microservice for automated PDF certificate generation.
• Platform Modernization: Orchestrated a major migration from Next.js 12 to 14 (App Router), modernizing the React architecture and improving system maintainability for a global EdTech platform.
• AI Integration: Engineered an OpenAI GPT-4 powered "Ask AI" teaching assistant with streaming responses and context-aware rendering, achieving a 92% user satisfaction rate.
• Performance & Reliability: Optimized platform performance to achieve 95+ Lighthouse scores and 99% uptime via advanced SSR/ISR caching and Cypress E2E testing (reducing production bugs by 65%).
• Generative AI Tooling: Built a creative dashboard for AI Image Generation using Shadcn/UI and ComfyUI, leveraging Figma AI to accelerate design-to-code workflows.

CreditPer Financial Services•Islamabad, Pakistan (On-site)

• High-Performance Web Solutions: Developed the official company website using Gatsby.js, achieving 90+ performance scores and generating 500+ monthly qualified leads through GA4 and CRM integration.
• FinTech Portals: Built and scaled the Careers Portal (Next.js, Redux, AWS S3) and an internal Retailer Portal (React, Ant Design), reducing average retailer processing time by 40%.
• Strategic Partnerships: Delivered Meezan Souq, Pakistan’s first Shariah-compliant digital marketplace for Meezan Bank, using React.js, Redux, and Material UI.
• Process Automation: Engineered a Node.js/PostgreSQL synchronization system for 50,000+ customer records, eliminating 80% of manual data entry through automated CRM webhooks and CRON jobs.
• Document Automation: Built a custom E-Contracting PDF engine using Express.js and html-pdf, automating the generation of 1,000+ monthly legally compliant contracts.