My name is Bashar.
I'm a Software
Developer.
Skills
React
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS3
SASS
Bootstrap
ChakaraUI
NodeJS
MongoDB
Express
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
Postman
Yarn
npm
Heroku
GitHub
About me
Passionate software engineer with hands-on experience in both front-end and back-end technologies. With a diverse background that includes property management and aviation, and holding a BA in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy, I bring a unique perspective to problem-solving.
Motivated by challenges and a lover of continuous learning, I’m a proud General Assembly bootcamp graduate. My technical skills are further enhanced by my multilingual abilities and strong interpersonal skills. Always eager to learn and bring diverse insights to tech solutions, I am excited to apply my multifaceted expertise in a collaborative team environment.
Projects
This projects frontend has been reworked and restyled completey since its been submitted. As a group, we had one week to build a full stack app with React, Node.js, Express and MongoDB. MetUps is a site for people to post events they're having and RSVP to events others have created. Our RESTful API in the backend was worked on as a group. On the frontend, I worked mainly on functionality, registration, event creation form and error handling. The biggest part I worked on would be maps and the system that gives demo events. I created random locations based on the user's current location, which then provides those locations with real street names. The idea is to give the illusion of a populated site and what it would look like if there were events near anyone who logs into the site.
Unofficial Logbook
The Crew Unofficial Logbook is a MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) web application designed as an interactive logbook for players of the game "The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine". It offers a user-friendly interface for game players to log and track their missions. The application features robust user authentication, interactive components, and a seamless integration between the frontend and backend services, making it a go-to platform for fans of the game.
Downforce Score Sheet
I created this webapp to complement the boardgame Downforce. Users can keep track of what cars they purchased and what cars they placed bets on. The app then calculates the total score for the user at the end of the game.
Minesweeper
I have built a Minesweeper game clone using React, Chakra UI, and Framer Motion. The game features three built-in difficulties and saves high scores locally for each difficulty. The game also has different controls for PC and mobile, with left-click and right-click for digging and adding a flag on PC and press and long press on mobile. All animations, including mine confetti explosions, were made using Framer Motion.
Giveaway Bae
We built a full stack app using React and chakra for the frontend and Python, Django, PostgreSQL for the backend. The idea behind Giveaway Bae is to create a community around companies/Influencers, by creating giveaways on the site with links that lead back to their social media. Your average user can get on the site and search for an item they're looking for, put it on their watch list, follow creator accounts and leave comments on giveaways posted. Both of us worked on the backend, I mainly worked on the navigation bar, dashboard and profile pages, giveaway form and giveaway cards.
A 48 hour pair coding project, built with React, Express and Node.js. We built the functionality to search a third party TV-shows API by genre and keywords. My main contribution to the project would be the favouriting functionality, built by taking advantage of local storage.
Space Game
A one week solo project, built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I started by deciding to build a PacMan game, but once I got the main functions of PacMan and the ghosts done, I decided to challenge myself by turning PacMan into a spaceship that shoots missiles in 4 different directions and is on a mission to collect all the orbs. I learned so much about JavaScript Classes and their methods.
Interests
Badminton
My favourite sport to engage in, I have met amazing people around the world by playing in Canada, Spain and Jordan.
Ultimate Frisbee
Ranks 2nd on sports I enjoy, great community around it, which is what attracted me to it in the first place. I find it to be more physically demanding than badminton, but it adds to the enjoyment.
Video Games
What I love most about video games is the amount of options there are for whatever mood or headspace you’re in at the moment. Puzzle games like The Witness for when you want to challenge your mind, Rocket League or Overwatch for when you want to test your dexterity and reaction times against others, party games that bring all sorts of people together and even ones who don’t identify as being “gamers”, like Over Cooked and JackBox Games.
Photography
I was obsessed with photography, digital photography in particular. Started taking photos with a small point and click Sony camera, then upgraded to a Nikon DSLR setup with multiple detachable lenses. Part of what got me excited about photography was editing photos and creating something special from what could be a dull image. Some of the images I took over the years are on my Flickr page.