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Hey — I'm Areesh 👋

Systems Architect · Cloud & DevOps Engineer · Full-Stack Developer

I engineer for reliability, automate for efficiency, and deliver with precision.

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👨‍💻 About Me

I engineer distributed systems optimized for reliability, performance, and long-term scalability. My systems self-regulate under stress—deployments, caching, and monitoring pipelines all work together to maintain uptime and precision.

Core Expertise:

  • System Architecture — scalable microservices and infrastructure.
  • Backend Engineering — resilient APIs and pipelines (Node.js/TypeScript).
  • DevOps & Cloud — CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), orchestration (AWS/K8s).
  • Performance Optimization — tuning for throughput, latency, caching.
  • Security & Observability — integrated security and real-time insight.

Domains Served:

  • Digital Media Networks
  • E-Commerce Platforms
  • Service-Driven Ecosystems

Select Projects:

  • BEGENONE – High-volume media social network.
  • WeReform – Modular SaaS + infra automation.
  • RotFalken – E-commerce operational transformation.
  • Global Vaddo – Nonprofit platform modernization.

Principle: Eliminate fragility, automate recovery, and let the system prove resilience through data—not assumptions.


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🧩 Note on Projects, Languages & Tools

A significant portion of my engineering work resides in private repositories due to client/project confidentiality, system sensitivity, and ongoing R&D.

What’s public here provides a glimpse into my broader engineering scope — focused on full-stack, DevOps, and systems design.

My core production stack revolves around:

  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • React · React Native · Node.js
  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform)

I also maintain working proficiency in lower-level and enterprise ecosystems to strengthen my systems understanding:

  • Java & Spring Boot — for backend architecture and microservices patterns.
  • C & C++ — for systems-level insights and performance-critical modules.
  • C# & .NET Core — for service-driven backend and desktop integrations.
  • Rust — for exploring memory safety, concurrency, and performance.

While not yet advanced in these languages, I use them to deepen my understanding of runtime behavior, memory models, and system optimization.
Over time, I aim to bridge these ecosystems with my full-stack and cloud expertise.


⚙️ Tech Stack

🧠 Languages

JavaScript TypeScript Python Java C C++ C# Go Rust

🌐 Frontend

HTML CSS React React Native Next.js Vite Tailwind Sass

🛠️ Backend & Fullstack

Node.js Express NestJS Fastify Django Flask Spring

🧩 Infrastructure / DevOps

Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS GCP Azure

📦 Databases & APIs

MongoDB PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Prisma GraphQL

🧪 Testing & CI/CD

Jest Cypress Playwright GitHub Actions GitLab

🎨 Tools & Design

VSCode Figma Adobe Logo Postman Swagger Android Studio Logo


📂 Featured Projects

🔹 BEGENONE — Social for Creators

  • A Video sharing social network platform for positive content and ethical moderation.
  • Subscriptions, short videos, perks delivery, modular services.
  • Stack: Pug · Node.js · MongoDB · AWS · Docker (LEGACY PROJECT — Current is private) GitHub Repo
    • Current's — Stack: React · React Native · Node.js · MongoDB · AWS · Docker and More.

🔸 Shorts Engine — High-Perf Video Delivery

  • S3 + CloudFront video delivery system.
  • Edge-optimized transcoding, cache-friendly playback, low cost.
  • Stack: Node.js · AWS · FFmpeg · Docker

🔹 RotFalken — E-Commerce Automation

  • Hybrid WordPress backend with custom React frontend for dynamic product handling.
  • Real-time inventory sync and order automation integrated via Node.js microservices.
  • Stack: WordPress · Figma

🔸 Global Vaddo — Charity Platform

  • WordPress CMS backend powering a statically optimized frontend via Next.js.
  • Fully redesigned UX for donations, accessibility compliance, and mobile speed.
  • Stack: WordPress · Figma

🎓 Education

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Zero To Mastery Academy

Professional Training, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Data Science (2025 - 2026)

  • Completed ML projects and data modeling tasks.
  • Participated in coding challenges and collaborative problem-solving.
  • Built applications using Python, and applied ML to real-world cases.

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Academind

Professional Training, Full-Stack & Mobile Development (2024 - 2025)

  • Containerized apps with Docker and deployed via Kubernetes.
  • Built React Native apps, TypeScript UIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implemented backend APIs using Golang.
  • Explored AI project building and Git/GitHub workflows.

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Blacktown Boys High School

High School Certification, Computer Science (2023 - 2024)

  • Studied software design, business systems, industrial tech, and law.
  • Analyzed the connection between technical systems and regulatory/business domains.

📜 Certifications

JavaScript Unit Testing - The Practical Guide — Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Issued Sep 2025 — Credential
Skills: Unit Testing

From Developer to Team Lead — Oren Abbou
Issued Aug 2025 — Credential
Skills: Leadership · Mentorship · Delegation · Project Estimation

Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams — Lahcen Bouya
Issued Aug 2025 — Credential
Skills: Remote Leadership · Hybrid Management · Virtual Meetings

Leading Remote or Virtual Teams — Lawrence M. Miller
Issued Aug 2025 — Credential
Skills: Remote Team Management · Meeting Facilitation

Software Architecture & Design of Modern Large Scale Systems — Michael Pogrebinsky
Issued Aug 2025 — Credential
Skills: System Design · API Management · Scalability

Agile & Scrum Project Management — 365 Careers
Issued Aug 2025 — Credential
Skills: Agile Planning · JIRA Workflows · Scrum

Project Management: Beginner to PROject Manager — 365 Careers
Issued Aug 2025 — Credential
Skills: Project Management Fundamentals

The Ultimate React Course 2024 — Jonas Schmedtmann
Issued Feb 2025 — Credential
Skills: React · Next.js · Redux · Tailwind

Docker & Kubernetes - The Practical Guide — Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Issued Nov 2024 — Credential
Skills: Containerization · Orchestration · AWS EKS

GitHub Actions - The Complete Guide — Maximilian Schwarzmüller
Issued Nov 2024 — Credential
Skills: CI/CD · Workflow Automation

Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C02) — Stephane Mareek
Issued Oct 2024 — Credential
Skills: AWS Lambda · CloudFormation · Serverless Design

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Stephane Mareek
Issued Jul 2024 — Credential
Skills: IAM · Cloud Security · S3 · EC2

Node.js, Express, MongoDB & More — Jonas Schmedtmann
Issued Dec 2023 — Credential
Skills: Node.js · Express · MongoDB

The Complete JavaScript Course 2022 — Jonas Schmedtmann
Issued Jul 2022 — Credential
Skills: JavaScript · Async · OOP · DOM

Advanced CSS and SASS — Jonas Schmedtmann
Issued Nov 2021 — Credential
Skills: SASS · Tailwind · CSS Architecture

Build Responsive Real-World Websites with HTML and CSS — Jonas Schmedtmann
Issued Sep 2021 — Credential
Skills: HTML · CSS · Responsive Design


✍️ Articles & Writings


Medium
A continuation of practical clean-code discipline, focusing on habits that improve readability, reduce cognitive load, and prevent subtle bugs. This piece digs into small structural decisions that quietly compound into long-term engineering leverage.


Medium
A practical guide to five clean-code habits that eliminate technical debt before it forms. From meaningful structure to smarter logging and self-documenting patterns, this article shows how small daily choices prevent months of debugging, rewrites, and production chaos.


Medium
A hard-earned breakdown of what “clean code” actually means after writing and maintaining 100K+ lines in production. Covers clutter removal, real-world logging, disciplined imports, documentation that editors can understand, and why readability beats cleverness every time.


Medium
A breakdown of why projects rarely fail during development but collapse when they hit production. Covers the shock of real infrastructure, public exposure, cost, responsibility, and the hidden pressures that stall most builders right before shipping.


Medium
A psychological teardown of procrastination disguised as “preparation.” Explains why waiting to feel ready kills momentum, traps ambitious people in planning loops, and how real progress actually begins.


Medium
A breakdown of the hidden failure mode most developers never notice: inconsistency. Why momentum, documentation, and daily practice matter more than raw talent.


Medium
A guide for those drowning in tutorials but lacking direction. Explains how project-driven learning creates clarity, purpose, and momentum.


Medium
A complete post-mortem of building a modern RN monorepo. Covers bundling issues, EAS pitfalls, workspace conflicts, and the architecture that finally worked.


Medium
A case study showing how a functional system still failed users. Unpacks subtle verification bugs, token handling, and design decisions that break onboarding.


Medium
A technical deep dive into silent S3 upload failures. Covers checksum mismatches, corrupted parts, misaligned SDK assumptions, and the corrected architecture.


Medium
A realistic debugging story about Expo Go failing to load due to network issues. Explains host-device IP mismatches, tunneling, LAN mode, and development pitfalls.


Medium
Explains the foundations of microservices — boundaries, communication, autonomy — and how they enable scaling teams, systems, and deployment pipelines.


Medium
A practical overview of microfrontends, Module Federation, when they help, and when they can destroy velocity instead of improving it.


Medium
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of monoliths vs microservices, tradeoffs, deployment realities, and how to make the right architecture choice.


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🧭 How I Work

⚙️ Principles & Development Approach

  • Problem-First Mindset
    Every project starts with why. I define the problem, business value, and tradeoffs before a single line of code is written.

  • SDLC Grounded in Reality
    While I follow standard phases — Requirements → Design → Development → Testing → Deployment → Maintenance — I adapt them per project scope.
    No ceremony for the sake of process. Just enough structure to deliver with clarity.

  • Build for Change, Not Perfection
    Code is expected to evolve. I prioritize readability, testability, and modularity over over-engineering.

  • Feedback-Centric Delivery
    Iteration is baked in. I ship early, demo often, and course-correct with real user insights.

  • Visibility as a Feature
    Logs, metrics, traces, and alerts are part of the product. I build with observability from day one.

  • Performance and Cost Consciousness
    Scale thoughtfully. I assess cost implications early — infra, latency, dev hours — and design accordingly.

  • Security Isn’t an Afterthought
    Threat modeling, secrets hygiene, and secure defaults are integrated across the lifecycle.

  • Tools Support Process, Not Vice Versa
    I don’t force tools into workflows. Git, CI/CD, task tracking, and review processes are shaped to accelerate delivery — not slow it down.


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Made with focus, shipped with intent. — Areesh

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    Forked from WereformCorp/BEGENONE-monolith-legacy

    This repository has been forked by Areesh Alam which was developed and also maintained by Areesh Alam under his organisation WereformCorp on GitHub.

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    Reusable API client for making authenticated requests, handling tokens, and communicating with backend services.

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    UI components and layouts for building channel pages, including headers, navigation, and content sections.

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    Configurable settings screens and components for managing user preferences and app-level options.

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    Shared utilities, constants, and base helpers used across multiple frontend and backend packages.

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    Video-related UI components such as players, cards, metadata layouts, and feed-ready video blocks.

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