7 years shipping production web apps end to end — React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and cloud infrastructure.
Senior Full Stack Engineer with experience owning software from requirements and architecture through implementation, cloud infrastructure, deployment, debugging, and iteration. Comfortable across APIs, databases, GraphQL, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, CI/CD, testing, and observability — and with AI-assisted workflows that still keep production quality accountable.
- 🔭 Most recently: Founding Full Stack Engineer at 1234 Home Reading Helper (May 2025 – Aug 2026)
- 🌱 Previously: Senior Full Stack at Kanarys, Full Stack at Arete Health, Frontend at Raush (Zurich)
- 💬 Ask me about TypeScript, Next.js, React, Node.js, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes
- 📫 Reach me at ittisafur@gmail.com
- 🌐 Portfolio: ittisafur.com
- ⚡ Open to full-time and contract opportunities
- Sole engineer for a multi-school early-literacy platform: 1,268 accounts, 1,624 students across 351 schools, ~800 MAU
- Production stack on Next.js 15, Node/Express, MySQL, Docker, GKE, and GCP (~12.7k HTTP requests/day)
- Built parent engagement + communications (Plivo/Brevo), SIMS-style admin workflows, and Expo/EAS Android phonics app
- At Kanarys: replaced Looker with Chart.js/Redux in 2.5 months; migrated CRA → Vite (40% faster builds)
Languages & frameworks: TypeScript · JavaScript · React · Next.js · Node.js · Express · Redux · Tailwind CSS
APIs & data: REST · GraphQL · PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB
Cloud & infrastructure: GCP · AWS · Terraform · Kubernetes · Docker · CI/CD
Testing & observability: Playwright · Vitest · Sentry · PostHog
Also: Vite · ShadCN/ui · Chart.js · Expo · AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex)
