Salar Houshvand

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Motivated developer with graduate degree in software engineering. Experienced in academic projects. Knowledgeable in front-end, back-end, graphic design, web applications and database. Passionate about learning new technologies.

Experience

Frazer Computing

Greenville, NC

Software Developer

Jan 2021 - Present

Planned and implemented the front-end redesign of a web application (mynextride.com) with more than 300,000 views weekly from prototyping to deployment by utilizing frameworks such as Laravel, Livewire, Bootstrap, JavaScript and JQuery.
Collaborated with a team of four developers to add new features and maintain the existing software.
Designed and implemented UI and unit tests for different components of the system which resulted in improving the overall performance of the system by identifying bugs.

East Carolina University (NSF RED:PPSE PROJECT)

Greenville, NC

Developer

May 2019 - Dec 2020

Designed and implemented the user interface of the website using React.js, CSS and HTML.
Developed algorithms to automatically generate questions for different topics in discrete mathematics.
Designed logo, depicts and clip arts using Adobe Photoshop.

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Graduate Assistant

January 2019 - Dec 2020

Assisted faculty in the development of high-quality graphs for illustrating complex technical concepts using Lucidchart, GeoGebra, Latex, and Excel.
Strong data analysis skills are shown in developing data for the Computer department’s external evaluation report submits all concise reports on time.
Mentored new colleagues by conducting recitation sessions and leading lab classes for algorithmic problem solving (CSCI1010).

Sky Design

Tabriz, Iran

Graphic Design

November 2013 - February 2015

Conceptualized and developed graphics products for product illustrations, company logos and online website projects using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, among others.
Coordinated, created and scheduled content, designs and periodic updates to the company website.

Projects

RESTful API for Discrete Math GitHub

Developed a RESTful API using Python’s Flask library to generate unlimited number of questions and their answers on selected topics in discrete math.
The goal was to help students practice their mathematical skills for different questions.

Quiz App using Python and JavaScript GitHub

A web application for generating quizzes using the API I built. The system keeps track of user’s progress and depicts it with a chart and a table by utilizing Google charts.

OCR tool for Telugu GitHub

Developed an OCR tool using Python to convert image file to text.
By using this application unlimited number of handwritten documents in Telugu language can be converted to text in making corpus for future projects.

Musica GitHub

A progressive web application using React to get information of artists from Spotify API and show top 10 songs of each.
You can search any artist and play a demo of their 10 top songs.

Registration form template GitHub

Responsive input form designed with HTML, CSS. Using Python as back-end. Deployed throuth Heroku. It stores image files using Amazon AWS.

Education

Master of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

2019 – 2020

Skills

Programming Language

Python, Java, Javascript, PHP

Web Development

HTML, CSS, SASS, React, NodeJS, AWS, Database, REST API, PWA.

Other

Graphic Design, Version Control, Scrum, MS Office Suit, Adobe Suit.

Languages

English(Professional Proficiency), Turkish (Native), Persian(Native), French(Elementary Proficiency)