Izhar Usmani

• Architected, developed, and maintained highly scalable full-stack applications utilizing Python (Django/FastAPI) on the backend and React.js with TypeScript on the frontend, improving application responsiveness by 35%.
• Designed and deployed decoupled Microservices architecture using Docker containers, configuring multi-container environments via Kubernetes orchestration tools to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
• Engineered a high-throughput enterprise Asset Prioritization Platform (ERP) for BCG, implementing Pandas and NumPy to build custom advanced data-processing algorithms that dynamically rank and allocate budgets to multi-million dollar projects.
• Deployed and managed applications directly on AWS cloud infrastructure, leveraging services like EC2, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB for scalable, high-velocity NoSQL data storage.
• Developed secure, standardized RESTful APIs documented with Swagger/OpenAPI, enforcing strict stateless JWT authentication and role-based access controls (RBAC).
• Built robust automated testing suites and configured CI/CD pipelines integrated with Git workflows to streamline automated deployments to AWS instances, reducing release cycles by 40%.

• Spearheaded the migration of the legacy monolithic backend for Seneca Connections into high-performance, modular REST APIs built on FastAPI and Flask, significantly optimizing latency for high-volume data lookups.
• Engineered a powerful multi-criteria search and filtering engine allowing enterprise users to instantly query millions of structured and unstructured records across historical orders, real-time quotes, and related company profiles utilizing hybrid SQL and MongoDB (NoSQL) schemas.
• Implemented secure, role-specific document generation and download pipelines, restricting the retrieval of sensitive PDF quotes, bulk orders, and financial invoice documents to authorized user roles via strict backend validation.
• Built dynamic, highly interactive frontend interfaces using React.js and JavaScript ES6+ to display complex, nested tabular data, ensuring fully responsive grids using semantic HTML5 and CSS3/Tailwind.
• Optimized database performance across large-scale relational and NoSQL database architectures, writing advanced indexed queries and optimized views to eliminate bottlenecks when rendering massive datasets.
• Integrated complex third-party services and secure webhooks to handle asynchronous document compilation and data streaming, ensuring strict transactional integrity across all platform workflows.
• Utilized Git for strict version control, managing isolated development, staging, and production release branches while collaborating with product teams to scope technical requirements and troubleshoot critical production bugs.

• Developed and delivered highly secure enterprise-level Django web applications and headless CMS web systems tailored to client requirements.
• Built interactive front-end dashboards and data-visualization views leveraging React.js, handling state management seamlessly across components.
• Managed network infrastructure services including DHCP/DNS configurations and local Linux server imaging to establish automated provisioning environments for development clusters.
• Containerized local development environments using Docker and managed localized deployment orchestration tools, closing the disparity between local machines and cloud production targets.
• Conducted system performance profiling, implemented object-level caching mechanisms, and refactored core codebase architecture to handle heavy concurrent user traffic.
• Enforced security best practices by fixing vulnerabilities, safeguarding endpoints against SQL injection, and ensuring end-to-end token validation across all service interfaces.

• Developed functional responsive web applications using a stack of PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Designed foundational database models, structured relational schemas, and maintained complex query operations for transaction-heavy logic.
• Built custom internal API endpoints to bridge backend databases with client-facing user interfaces.
• Worked closely with UI/UX designers to translate wireframes into pixel-perfect, cross-browser compatible web structures.
• Handled day-to-day deployment tasks on Linux servers, applied patches, managed system configurations, and provided reliable production support for live systems.
• Assisted senior engineers in debugging legacy modules, documenting bugs, and drafting system manuals.