Hi, I'm Sameid Usmani — software engineer and builder.

I'm a Product Engineering Manager at DemandHub, where I work across the full stack — building features, shipping the core platform, and mentoring engineers. On the side, I'm always building something or learning classical Arabic. I studied Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, and now I live in Toronto.

Sameid Usmani

Experience

DemandHub Inc. 2018 – Present
Mississauga, ON

Ideated products with the founding team, led release schedules and AWS production environments, built a 2-way SMB messaging architecture and a React Native app from scratch, and mentored engineers through code reviews and design.

TradeRev Inc. (now known as OpenLane) Aug 2016 – Apr 2018
Toronto, ON · Full Stack Developer

Built features and services for the TradeRev platform — Angular research tools on the front end, Node.js and Grails APIs on the back end, and workflow tooling for the team.

AppVine Inc. (now known as LimeLight Inc.) Jan 2016 – Aug 2016
Mississauga, ON · Web Developer

Built a dashboard and charting tool for visualizing financial data, rebuilt the core Excel-like grid system in TypeScript, and made various UI/UX enhancements to the Limelight platform.

Klipfolio Inc. May 2013 – Dec 2014
Ottawa, ON · Web Developer

Developed features for the Klipfolio Dashboard, built backend and server infrastructure tools, created a testing framework for the formula service, and improved realtime dashboard performance.

Education

University of Ottawa

Honours Bachelor of Science with Specialization in Computer Science (COOP), Management and Entrepreneurship Option.

Projects

codepal.sh (2026) WIP
A coding harness for your phone. In progress.
goalpal (2026)
A quiet, offline-first iOS goal and habit tracker — you define what matters and it gives an honest daily life score. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking.
slopdiff (2026)
A simple diff tool written in JavaScript, used alongside OpenCode.
sam-nvim (2025)
A simple and minimal Neovim configuration in Lua that just works — sensible plugins, a clean UI, and easy setup.
Sarf (2025)
Small flash card PWA app for beginner Arabic students. Vocab testing from the popular books.
samkey84 (2025)
Custom QMK firmware in C for the Lofree Flow 2 (84-key) keyboard, written after a Lofree update bricked the original.
service-fetch (2024)
A small frontend library that makes REST requests easy.
ShiftBuddy (2022)
A free iOS app for gig workers to track shifts and invoice easily — tap to clock in and out, then send a PDF or Excel invoice to get paid.
ConnectShop (2020)
A middleware server piping tens of thousands of products from vendors to a Shopify store, hosted on AWS.
SRJ Workflow Manager (2019)
A fully featured accounting workflow tool built with ReactJS and Node.js, hosted on AWS.
Project Ameen (2019) Archived
An interactive Quran-sharing app written in React Native and Twilio Video.
Shooty Roads (2017)
A web-based realtime multiplayer shooter made in pure JavaScript and Node.js, hosted on AWS.
Lonely Blue (2013) Archived
An Android shape shooter written in Java with LibGDX.
PullPlaylist (2013)
A Node.js library that downloads all the videos in a YouTube playlist and converts them to mp3.
Close Call (2012) Archived
An addictive tilt shooter written in JavaScript with CocoonJS and Cordova.
Boxhead Online (2010) Archived
An online multiplayer zombie shooter written in plain Java.
GroupMe (2009) Archived
A small texting app written in Java — join an SMS group from a web app and everyone lands in a shared group SMS thread.

Skills

Languages
Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Groovy, C#, PHP, Swift, Objective-C, HTML/CSS
Databases
MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis (ElastiCache)
Frameworks / Libraries
React, React Native, Expo, Node.js, Express.js, Grails, Angular.js, Backbone.js, Knockout.js, Durandal, Socket.IO, SockJS, Cordova, PhoneGap, CocoonJS, LibGDX

Contact

sameid.usmani@gmail.com
github.com/sameid
linkedin.com/in/sameidusmani