Anuar Zhuken #
Experience #
Aurora - Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer #
September 2021 - March 2025
- Architected and led development of a core Full Stack application with focus on UIs at scale
- Designed, Built, and Led multiple FrontEnd features for an Enterprise Application named Beacon
- Provided technical insights and evaluated alternative technologies
- Effectively communicated complex technical issues
- Built several FullStack features, including Role Based Access Control
- Built an MVP of a RAG virtual assistant that facilitates faster ideation-to-code workflow
- Onboarded, mentored, and led six engineers
- Continuously collaborated with stakeholders, including End Users, Project Managers, Software Engineers, and Designers, to ensure that features fit requirements, provide intuitive UI/UX, and allow for long-term strategy
- Redesigned FrontEnd state layer with State/Observer/Mediator patterns, which led to:
- Improved visibility into the app's states
- Confidence in developing new features
- Improved developer experience
- Increased dev velocity
- Rebuilt internal reusable Calendar component which powers 4 distinct pages with pure HTML Canvas to gain the following benefits:
- Virtualized infinite scroll
- Detailed control of elements' positions
- Fast rendering performance
- Control of states
- Improved app Web Performance by code-splitting, compression (init bundle from 8 MB to 400KB), cache busting, etc
- Made a series of dev improvements, including:
- Company-wide Bazel build rules
- DB migration automation
- Visualization of the FrontEnd app's module dependencies
Headspace - Software Engineer #
December 2020 - September 2021
- Designed a FullStack feature to collect post-pilot surveys, which increased the conversion of pilots by 300%
- Built a BackEnd feature to provide corporate admins with visibility in the program for employee family members
- Enabled local development to improve developers' velocity substantially
Uber - Software Engineer #
July 2018 - June 2020
- Project - new FusionJS (Node/React) microservice with several thousand concurrent heavy users
- Features - authoring of emails, search and filtering
Hack Reactor - Software Engineering Teaching Assistant #
November 2017 - February 2018
- Provided code reviews and taught best practices for debugging software to 60+ students
- Conducted dozens of mock algorithm interviews for graduates
Education #
Hack Reactor - Advanced Software Engineering Immersive #
July - October 2017
- Full Scholarship recipient as a member of an underrepresented group in software engineering
- Member of Telegraph Track, an organization that supports underrepresented communities in Tech
KIMEP, Kazakhstan - MBA #
2005 - 2007