Mohammed Alam

Software Engineer | CS @ Columbia University

New York, NY

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My Stack

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Git

Experience

  1. Senior Systems & Operations

    Columbia HousingNew York, NY

    Built Dorm Room Viewer with room-level floor plans, photos, and walk-time estimates. Presented it to Columbia Housing, where it was adopted for official development and now supports ~6,000 students. Built internal tools and Node.js automation services supporting operations across 40 properties spanning more than 2M sq. ft. and serving 6,000+ students.

    Dorm Room Viewer (Prototype)

  2. Software Engineering Fellow

    Headstarter AINew York, NY

    Built 5 AI applications using OpenAI, Pinecone, Stripe, Next.js, and TypeScript. Won 1st place among 75+ participants at a TikTok-sponsored hackathon with a real-time blogging platform.

    Winning Hackathon Project

  3. Software Engineer

    FreelanceNew York, NY

    Built 500+ web applications and Discord bots for clients. Scaled one bot to 13M users across 13,000+ servers using Redis, MongoDB, and Bull.js for data storage and background jobs.

Featured Projects

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mini-vercel showcase

mini-vercel

Self-hosted CI/CD that turns a GitHub push into a live HTTPS deploy in under 60 seconds. Zero-downtime releases through container health checks and atomic Nginx upstream swaps on a single EC2 box. Routes 10+ project subdomains through a custom Go reverse proxy, managed from a CLI and a Next.js dashboard. It serves this site.

  • TypeScript
  • Fastify
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • Nginx
  • Go
  • Next.js
Live (this site)DemoSource
Guess The Number showcase

Guess The Number

Multiplayer Discord game scaled to 13M+ members across 13K+ servers, processing 1M+ commands per day. Cut command latency from 450 ms to 180 ms by sharding Redis and MongoDB state per session, and held sub-200 ms p95 through 10x traffic spikes with Bull.js job queues.

  • Node.js
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Bull.js