Resume — Luqmaan Dawoodjee

2024-Present

Founder & Full-Stack Engineer

Incubating and launching 0-to-1 products in TypeScript/JavaScript across web, mobile, and AI workflows, with end-to-end ownership from product design through architecture, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Launched SoleFeed.com, a Next.js shopping and search product with embeddings, vector retrieval, Cloudflare Workers edge services, and Playwright end-to-end tests.
Built and deployed an AI-powered hotel guest services platform with real-time chat, RAG and tool-calling workflows, WebSocket and Redis synchronization for live hotel operations.
Building Spill, a privacy-first React Native/Expo journaling product with encrypted offline storage, voice dictation, and an in-app OTA testing flow to validate rapid iterations on device.
Own frontend architecture, API design, debugging, issue triage, and production support across multiple products with different users, constraints, and release cadences.

2018-2024

Team Lead / Frontend Engineer

2022-2024

Created a new design-system initiative for Reality Labs after building a data-backed proposal showing mobile quality directly affected a large share of VR revenue; aligned engineering, design, and product stakeholders on scope, architecture, adoption plan, and success metrics.
Built accessible React Native components and migration tooling for screen readers, focus management, and consistent UI behavior; drove adoption across 10,000+ call sites through codemods, lint rules, documentation, and tech talks.
Held the quality bar for shared UI primitives through design reviews, API design discussions, code reviews, and developer education across multiple product teams.
Improved Quest headset BLE pairing success from 90% to 99%.
Shipped app-wide Light Mode and redesigned team on-call into SEV and Release Captain rotations with a runbook referenced weekly by dozens of engineers.

2022

Co-created VR App Referrals; after a reorg, helped align product, design, and engineering to launch a mobile-first referral flow that grew past $1M+ MRR.
Co-authored the spec, closed product and API gaps, designed the GraphQL schema and client data layer, and built React Native referral surfaces.
Led activation/retention experiments and modernized Relay code for prefetching and streaming.
Mentored an intern after their manager left early; rebuilt the project plan and helped them earn a top rating and return offer.

2018-2022

Founding engineer on a team building capacity dashboards, autoscaling, and load-testing interfaces used by thousands of engineers across Meta infrastructure.
Led a 3-engineer workstream translating complex backend systems into safer, more usable frontend workflows; improved a key UI from p90 27s to 11s and cut autoscaling debug time from 5-30 min to <1 min.
Helped grow self-serve autoscaling adoption from 1.8M to 2.1M hosts and previously drove a 300% increase to 1,187 autoscaled services.
Interviewed users across Meta, presented results at Core Systems All-Hands to roughly 1,000 engineers, and mentored frontend bootcamp engineers. Led the FBNY frontend community.

2018

Design, Technology, and Innovation Fellow

Built an open-source flood warning and road-closure application using React, Mapbox GL, GraphQL/Postgraphile, Postgres, and AWS.
Delivered geospatial UI features for residents and city staff while balancing usability, performance, and maintainability in a public-sector environment.

2013-2017

Team Lead / Full-Stack Engineer

Led frontend architecture migration from Knockout.js to React/Redux, modernized asynchronous state management from thunks to sagas, and improved testability and long-term maintainability.
Built and maintained customer-facing product features across the React frontend, Python/Flask APIs, Node.js microservices, and Elasticsearch analytics dashboards.
Ran roadmap and UX review processes with engineering, design, sales, and support; regularly triaged bugs, debugged production issues, and prioritized fixes.
Hired and mentored engineers, conducted code reviews and one-on-ones, and authored "Things I Wish I Knew About Redux," featured in the official Redux docs.

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