
Haroon Ahmed
AI Automation Specialist
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Software Engineer at a Start Up
Y Combinator • Freelance
Jun 2026 - Jul 2026 • 1 mo
* Built and extended a Kanban-style task management system for a logistics startup, enabling drag-and-drop task reordering and status transitions across workflow stages. * Integrated a Node.js backend to persist task status and priority changes, ensuring workflow state remained consistent across user sessions. * Analyzed product usage data with SQL to measure daily active users and task activity, and proposed data-driven feature ideas to improve engagement. * Applied product thinking by translating user behavior, support feedback, and metrics into actionable feature hypotheses and recommendations. * Gained experience working across frontend, backend, analytics, and product strategy in a startup-style environment.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Freelance
Jun 2026 - Jul 2026 • 1 mo
* Integrated Kafka into a Spring Boot microservice to consume and deserialize high-volume transaction messages using a configurable topic and embedded Kafka test framework. * Implemented transaction validation and persistence logic with Spring Data JPA and an H2 SQL database, including entity modeling and balance updates across relational User records. * Connected the service to an external REST Incentive API using RestTemplate, processing incentive responses and incorporating them into transactional workflows. * Developed a REST endpoint for querying user balances, returning JSON responses through a Spring controller while maintaining clean architectural boundaries. * Verified system behavior using Maven test suites and debugger-driven inspection, ensuring reliability across message ingestion, database operations, and external API interactions.