Hannah Akhtar

Software Engineer at Finova

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

About

💻 Software developer with a focus on front-end technologies. 💡 Extensive previous experience as an Account Manager, selling technology solutions. Most recently, selling Cyber Security Solutions to Public Sector organisations. 🎯 Highly adaptable individual with the ability to draw upon past experience in order to effectively translate technical terminology into actionable business requirements.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Finova
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Software Engineer at Awaze
    Aug 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Developing and maintaining the front-end Search experience across five core brands and fourteen European domains, serving approximately 400,000 sessions per week. Technologies: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Optimizely & New Relic

  • AND Digital (London, England, United Kingdom)
    • Product Developer
      Nov 2023 - Aug 2024 · 10 mos

      IAGL (October 2023 - July 2024): Front end developer (TypeScript, React, Next.js & Contentful) working on greenfield project for redesign and rebrand of avios.com.

    • Associate Product Developer
      Nov 2021 - Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Intuit Quickbooks (April - July 2023): Full stack developer (React and Java). AND Expenses (August - December 2022): gained exposure in using TypeScript/Node.js to create CRUD endpoints and AWS technologies (DynamoDB and CloudWatch), and gained proficiency in IaaC techniques. International Airlines Group (IAG) Limited (January - June 2022): delivered responsive front-end features using React.js to complete the user journey through a fitness tracking application. Additionally, acted as interim scrum master on the project for one month.

  • Junior Software Developer at Zaizi
    Apr 2021 - Nov 2021 · 8 mos

    Worked with a Central Government client project using Camunda, Groovy, Docker, Formbuilder & AWS S3.

  • Software Engineering Immersive student at General Assembly
    Dec 2020 - Mar 2021 · 4 mos

    A 12 week, intensive bootcamp covering numerous coding languages, frameworks and libraries. The course was delivered remotely through lectures, labs, pair-programming exercises and four projects. These can be viewed via my accomplishments section at the bottom of my profile.