Amir Bizimana

Amir Bizimana

Software Development in Montreal, Canada

About

Hello!
I am an economics graduate from Carleton University turned Developer.
Initially self-taught, I now have 5 years of professional work experience in the field as a frontend developer. I have become proficient and confident with core frontend development technologies and I’m always keen to work with new and cutting-edge tech.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
Software Developer at Power Factors
Montreal, Canada

Key functions:
• Develop and implement new features for the Centauri platform, contributing to its continuous improvement and growth.
• Address and resolve bugs, ensuring a smooth and error-free user experience on the Centauri platform.
• Proficient in using the React framework and Material UI for frontend development, creating intuitive and visually appealing user interfaces.

Qualifications:
• Experience with frontend technologies and frameworks, such as REACT, Typescript, Material UI. Some exposure to backend frameworks like ASP.NET

2021 — 2022
Frontend Developer at Automotive Data Solutions
Montreal, Canada

Key functions:
• Re-built legacy projects into modern react applications
• Develop brand new interfaces for legacy website design revamps
• Collaborated with UX, designers, and product owners to improve user experience of assigned projects
• Integrated design templates and mock-ups into functional web markup

Qualifications:
• Experience with frontend technologies and frameworks, such as REACT, Typescript, Redux, Javascript, CSS, BOOSTRAP, NPM, YARN, GIT

2019 — 2021
Frontend Developer at 4th Whale Marketing
Montreal, Canada

Key Functions:
• Optimized performance on single page applications with a focus on core web vitals including FCP, LCP, and CLS
• Collaborated with UX, designers, and product owners to improve user experience of our products
• Integrated design templates and mock-ups into functional web markup
• Maintained high quality graphic standards and brand consistency across products

Qualifications:
• Proven work experience as a frontend user interface developer with consumer facing sites
• Experience with frontend performance optimization
• Experience with frontend technologies and frameworks, such as NEXTJS, CSS3, REACT, Typescript, Symfony TWIG, HTML5, WEBPACK, NPM, YARN, GIT, BOOSTRAP
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors: SCSS, SASS
• In-depth understanding of viewports and devices – especially mobile
• Implemented and configured AB-tests for products using Google Optimize

2018 — 2019
Adobe Analytics DTM developer at Service Canada
Gatineau, Canada

Key Functions:

• Implementing Analytics tracking on Canada.ca Websites and non- Canada.ca government institutions sites.
• Configured Adobe analytics dynamic tag management software to maintain and create tracking features.
• Writing JavaScript, CSS and JQuery scripts within Adobe DTM tag manager. • Deep analysis of the HTML structure of the websites to conduct proper • DOM scrapping.

Projects

2022

I recently finished a side project where I re-built a website that was using a traditional/legacy client-server architecture ( kidstudio.co/ ) into a new one using a modern JAMstack architecture ( kid-studio.vercel.app/ ). I wrote a blog post explaining the stack I used: Some of the technologies I used in this project were: REACT, NEXTJS, JAVASCRIPT, THREEJS, REACT-THREE-FIBER, GRAPHQL, Contentful

Side Projects

2023

Started a Youtube Channel where I'll be making videos about
projects that I'm working on and new AI technologies and concepts I'm learning about.

Education

2010 — 2015
Economics at Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada

Contact

Youtube
GitHub