Mohammed Alam

Software Engineer | CS @ Columbia University

New York, NY

Mohammed Alam

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

    Leading development of Dorm Room Viewer, a housing platform serving 9,000+ students with room-level floor plans, walk-time estimation, an AWS S3 image pipeline, and Columbia CAS (SSO) authentication. Designed and built backend automation services in Node.js to automate operational workflows, synchronize housing data across systems, and improve the reliability and efficiency of internal operations.

  • 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, scaling one bot to 13,000,000 users across 13,000+ servers on a Redis + MongoDB data layer with Bull.js job queues sustaining low-latency performance under high-volume concurrent traffic.

Featured Projects

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Guess The Number

Node.jsMongoDBRedisBull.js

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.

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Frosted Studios

Next.jsReact.jsRoblox APIResendTailwind CSS

Studio website for a top Roblox game studio with 1.6B+ total visits. Features live game stats pulled from the Roblox Open Cloud API (CCU, visit counts), a contact system with email delivery, and a showcase of the studio's game portfolio.

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Dorm Room Viewer

React.jsViteTailwind CSSFramer MotionAWS S3

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 in public beta with guest browsing.

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Dine U

React NativeTypeScriptPythonNode.jsSupabase

Cross-platform dining companion app for university students with real-time dining hall menus, an ML recommendation system trained on user preferences, and serverless APIs deployed on Supabase Edge Functions.