murtazach275@gmail.com

My Name is

Murtaza Asghar

I build things for the web.

I'm a software engineer specializing in building (and occasionally designing) exceptional digital experiences. Currently, I'm focused on building accessible, human-centered products at Scrapespot.

01.About Me

Hello! My name is Murtaza and I enjoy creating things that live on the internet. My interest in web development started back in 2012 when I decided to try editing custom Tumblr themes — turns out hacking together a custom reblog button taught me a lot about HTML & CSS!

Fast-forward to today, and I've had the privilege of working at an advertising agency, a start-up, a huge corporation, and a student-led design studio. My main focus these days is building accessible, inclusive products and digital experiences at Scrapespot for a variety of clients.

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:

JavaScript (ES6+)

TypeScript (ES6+)

React/Next/Vue Js

React Native

Redux/Redux Toolkit

Node/Express/Nest Js

AWS/GCP/Firebase

MongoDb/SupaBase

Unit Testing/Cypress

Tailwind/Material Ui/Ant D

Headless CMS

02.Where I’ve Worked

Engineer @ Blueeast

May 2018 - Present

Write modern, performant, maintainable code for a diverse array of client and internal projects

Work with a variety of different languages, platforms, frameworks, and content management systems such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Gatsby, React, Craft, WordPress, Prismic, and Netlify

Communicate with multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, designers, producers, and clients on a daily basis

Other Noteworthy Projects

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Integrating Algolia Search with WordPress Multisite

Building a custom multisite compatible WordPress plugin to build global search with Algolia

Algolia

WordPress

PHP

Time to Have More Fun

A single page web app for helping me choose where to travel, built with Next.js, Firebase, and Tailwind CSS

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

Firebase

Building a Headless Mobile App CMS From Scratch

Find out how we built a custom headless CMS with Node, Express, and Firebase for a project at Upstatement

Node

Express

Firebase

React.js

Google Keep Clone

A simple Google Keep clone built with Vue and Firebase.

React.js

Firebase

Apple Music Embeddable Web Player Widget

Embeddable web player widget for Apple Music that lets users log in and listen to full song playback in the browser leveraging

React.js

Node

Tailwind CSS

Personal Website V2

Second iteration of my personal website. Designed and developed with a conscious effort to avoid using any superfluous frameworks like Bootstrap.

React.js

Node

Tailwind CSS

04. What’s Next?

Get In Touch

Although I'm not currently looking for any new opportunities, my inbox is always open. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I'll try my best to get back to you!

murtazach275@gmail.com