Rakan Nimer

Full Stack Software Engineer

Hey there! 👋

I'm a lead Full Stack Software Engineer with over a decade of experience in creating modern and robust applications and leading performant engineering teams for high traffic B2C businesses.

I excel at planning, and developing scalable, documented and well-tested solutions while mentoring and pair-programming with others around me.

Full Stack Software Engineer @ AWS - Shipping features and products for AppStream2.0 and WorkSpaces

Focused on • TypeScript • Node.js • PWAs • React(-Native) • CDK • Java • Serverless • AWS • GCP
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Some of the public work I have worked on

Here are some of the things that I have created or worked on.

AWS Apps SmartCard Authentication Support

Java
AWS
Typescript
React
Adding smart card authentication support to AWS Applications Auth and integrating the solution with WorkSpaces
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Private Solution : WorkSpaces + Identity Project

CDK
Java
AWS
JavaScript
AngularJS
Project is not yet GA.
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Amplify Workshop

Typescript
AWS
AWS Amplify
Open Source
Workshop

Serverless React App with AWS Amplify API, Auth, Storage, and Predictions

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Client-Side Logging and Analytics with AWS

CDK
TypeScript
CloudWatch
Cognito
Pinpoint
AWS
React
Post that goes through an example setup of client-side log and analytics collection from authenticated and guest clients, using AWS services.
Cloudwatch, Cognito, Pinpoint and AWS icons

Al Khattaba

Typescript
React Native
Node.js
AWS
Firebase
MySQL
Redis
Appium

With over 2 million users & 1 billion yearly messages exchanged, Al Khattaba is the biggest matchmaking app in Saudi Arabia.

Users sign up by answering more than 30 questions about themselves. Based on their answers, they receive daily matches to chat with.

Docz

Typescript
React
Gatsby
Open Source
Node

It's never been easier to document your things !

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Pagination & Sorting with AWS Amplify

Typescript
React
AWS
AWS Amplify
Open Source

Building a group chat app with AWS Amplify.

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Server-Side Rendered Real-time Web App with Next.js, AWS Amplify & GraphQL

Typescript
React
AWS
AWS Amplify
Open Source
Next.js

A detailed tutorial with code + demo for building a server-rendered realtime collaborative todo list app with Next.js and AWS Amplify.

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Building a server-rendered react web app with firebase and NextJS

Typescript
React
Next.js
Cypress
Material UI
Styled Components
Firebase

An example codebase show-casing key aspects of building an SEO friendly web app powered by Firebase and NextJS.

Main goal was to build a POC for a larger project that would use a similar stack

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Building Serverless Apps with AWS Amplify

Typescript
AWS
AWS Amplify
Open Source

An AWS Amplify introduction.

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Curve fitting in the browser with Tensorflow JS

Typescript
React
MobX
TensorflowJS
Open Source

A visualization tool to experiment with Tensorflow JS. It allows you to train a model and visualize its progress on a 2D regression problem.

React Google Charts

Typescript
React
Google Visualization API
Cypress
A popular open-source project with over 100K monthly downloads that provides a declarative React wrapper around the highly imperative Google Charts and Visualization APIs.
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Farah

Typescript
React Native
Node.js
AWS
Firebase
PostgreSQL

Farah is an AI powered matchmaking app that uses a gamified approach to match people with similar interests and inclinations.

Once users are matched they can chat on the platform to determine if the match made is good.

Testing your Amplify Application with Jest and Cypress

Typescript
React
Jest
Cypress
Open Source
Node

In this post we will be writing static, unit, integration and end-to-end (e2e) tests for a web app deployed with the Amplify Console and that uses Amplify API.

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