About Sas Jamal

Software Engineer | UI/UX Enthusiast | .NET & React Expert

About Me

I am a skilled software engineer with a passion for UI/UX. What I love most about the work I do is having a positive quantifiable impact on the users of the systems that I or my team have created. I started at the age of fourteen and have worked in nearly every capacity of the Software Development Life Cycle. My favorite language is C#; my favorite platform is .NET all the way to .NET Core, followed closely by JavaScript and ReactJS. It is my desire to find a company that builds world class solutions to all problems big or small, leverages software systems to increase user satisfaction, generate additional revenue, minimize costs and reduce human hours. I take time to learn technologies and I aim to master them as soon as possible.

Skills

.NET / .NET Core

JavaScript, ReactJS, Angular* KnockoutJS, JQuery

 

C# / VB.Net / PHP



API’s (Created & Consumed) – REST, JSON, XML, SOAP

MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres

Azure (App Service, Virtual Machines, Functions*, Blob, SQL AAS, Kubernetes 

Teradata, N Tier

.NET MVC

Micro Services

Entity Framework

WordPress, Linux System Administration

Employment

Application Director, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, August 2024 – Current

Application Director

Ohio Farm Bureau Federation

August 2024 – Current

Responsibilities:

  • I work on customer facing and back-office applications that sit atop Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
  • I create mockups for customer facing applications; then implement them in code.
  • I work with stakeholders and assist in creating requirements for systems I then develop.

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, WordPress, .NET, .NET Core, C#, SQL Server, MVC, Web Forms, Docker, Dynamics CRM. Bootstrap, Azure Cloud Services, Angular

Senior Software Engineer, VARCommerce, February 2020 – February 2024

Senior Software Engineer

VARCommerce

February 2020 – February 2024

Responsibilities:

  1. I lead a (very) small team of developers in maintaining a twenty-year-old Monolith application.
  2. I implemented continuous deployment and integration on the Azure DevOps platform.
  3. I converted a single tenant application into a multi-tenant cloud-based software as a service.
  4. I evaluated micro services as the future of our flagship product; leadership ultimately decided against it at that moment in time.
  5. I introduced N-Tier Architecture into our system ensuring maintenance and improvements could easily be completed and shared across multiple applications in our ecosystem.
  6. I extended our application by allowing third party vendors to supply containerized (Docker) applications that collocated with our systems.

Technologies: .NET, .NET Core, C#, VB.Net, SQL Server, Entity Framework. MVC, Web Forms, Azure DevOps, React JS, Power Shell, Docker, N-Tier, Docker, Azure Cloud Services

Software Engineer (Contractor), Cass Information Systems, September 2019 – January, 2020

Software Engineer (Contractor)

Cass Information Systems

September 2019 – January, 2020

Responsibilities:

  1. I worked on extracting an existing application from a singular monolithic application into its own separate application.
  2. The application that I extracted was built atop a proprietary Micro Services Solution.

Technologies: .NET, C#, SQL Server, Entity Framework. MVC, Azure DevOps

Senior Software Engineer, Verizon Wireless, November 2015 – April, 2019

Senior Software Engineer

Verizon Wireless

November 2015 – April, 201

Responsibilities: I 

  1. I was the lead developer in a group of nine. I developed all the prototypes and took on the hardest, riskiest and most complex projects.
  2. I served as the de-facto Software Architect in our department.
  3. I worked with Stakeholders on extracting requirements.
  4. I mentored several developers (one on one as well as group sessions).
  5. I learned to complete complex systems on time and under budget by breaking them into simpler smaller systems that come together to be of value greater than the sum of their parts.
  6. Alongside my development and leadership duties, I often worked on more theoretical research and development projects such as Continuous Integration, Blockchain and VM Deployments.
  7. We typically worked on N-Tier / MVC applications and one major distributed application.

Technologies: .Net, C#, VB.NET, Oracle, Oracle B.I., Dapper. Teradata, MVC, Web Forms Subversion, KnockoutJS

Cloud Engineer, Uptivity / InContact, December 2013 – July, 2015

Cloud Engineer

Uptivity / InContact

December 2013 – July, 2015

Responsibilities: I

  1. I worked under the leadership of an esteemed software architect to design and develop features for the Cloud Version of our Software Suite. He recruited me to join his team.
  2. I created unit tests for the code that I wrote as well as code others had written.
  3. I worked extensively in JavaScript to create a dynamic and versatile dashboard for the users of our software.
  4. I also mentored our interns and participated in design and analysis of systems before we began development.

Technologies: C#, Postgres, TFS, SQL Server, .NET, MVC, Single Sign On, SSRS

Software Engineer, Nexus Communications, February 2005 – December, 2013

Software Engineer

Nexus Communications

February 2005 – December, 2013

Responsibilities: 

  1. I was the first developer who worked for this company, and I saw them grow from around 60,000 customers to over 1.4 million(!).
  2. I designed much of the ground up IT and Information Systems architecture that was the backbone of the company.
  3. I managed a rapid growth environment and adapted to changing requirements.
  4. I led external vendors and small teams of developers in quickly creating Line of Business applications to keep up with our continued growth as well as completing several of them myself as well.
  5. I was key in designing systems that interfaced with fortune 100 vendors. 

Technologies: RedHat Linux, PHP, MySQL, VMWare, C#, .NET, SQL Server, Perl

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Columbus, Ohio, DeVry University, Fall 2000 – Fall 2002

Columbus, Ohio

DeVry University

Fall 2000 – Fall 2002

Summary: Though I did not complete my bachelor’s degree at DeVry the time I spent there was invaluable as I learned how to not only become a developer, but also an analyst, a designer and a collaborator.

Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

2 Years

Summary: I have logged over 1,000 hours as a Scrum Master.