My Stack
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Java
- SQL
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Git
Experience
- Columbia Housing
Systems & Operations Assistant
New York, NY
Independently conceived, designed, and built Dorm Room Viewer to help Columbia students explore campus housing through room-level floor plans, photos, and walk-time estimates. After presenting the platform to Columbia Housing, it was adopted for official development — now leading ongoing engineering for ~9,000 students in collaboration with the Systems & Operations team. Designed and built internal tools and Node.js automation services supporting operations across ~40 residential buildings and ~6,000 rooms, automating workflows and synchronizing housing data across systems.
- Headstarter AI
Software Engineering Fellow
New York, NY
Shipped 5 production AI applications in weekly sprints — RAG pipelines with OpenAI and Pinecone vector search, Stripe billing, and Next.js/TypeScript frontends. Won 1st place among 75+ participants at a TikTok-sponsored hackathon with a real-time blogging platform.
- Freelance
Software Engineer
New York, NY
Delivered 500+ web applications and Discord bots for clients. Scaled one bot to 13,000,000 users across 13,000+ servers, engineering its Redis + MongoDB data layer and Bull.js job queues to sustain low-latency performance under heavy concurrent load.
Featured Projects
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My own little Vercel — a self-hosted deployment platform that turns a git push into a live HTTPS site, and it's serving the page you're reading right now (malam.me migrated off Vercel entirely). HMAC-verified GitHub webhooks queue builds on Redis; a worker clones the repo, builds the Dockerfile, health-checks the new container, then rewrites routes before stopping the old one — zero-downtime deploys with instant rollbacks. Every project gets its own *.malam.me subdomain under a wildcard TLS cert, managed from a dashboard with live build logs or a CLI, all on a single 1GB EC2 box.
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Multiplayer Discord game grown organically to 13,000,000+ users across 13,000+ servers. Built on a Redis + MongoDB data layer with a Bull.js queue system to keep command latency low under high-volume concurrent traffic.
Housing explorer for ~9,000 Columbia students: building photos, room-by-room floor plans with sizes, walk times to campus, and filters by room type, size, and distance. S3-backed image pipeline with graceful fallbacks and a Columbia CAS (SSO) auth scaffold — currently a public prototype with guest browsing.
