Muhammad Khawaja

Experience

Software Developer Apr 2025 – Present

Hitek Analytics · Contract, Part-Time

Led development of multiple web and mobile applications for an agricultural-analytics company to digitize agronomy services, supporting 200+ users and reducing manual reporting overhead across the business.
Architected and built an agronomist web portal that let staff manage service requests, generate soil-health reports, and process client payments in one system, replacing a fragmented manual workflow.
Identified report generation as the biggest time sink and integrated OpenAI APIs to auto-generate agronomic insights from soil data, cutting report time by 50%.
Engineered a multi-format export engine generating client-ready PDF, XLSX, and CSV reports from lab data, including chart-image generation for visual soil-health summaries embedded in PDFs.
Implemented secure authentication and Role-Based Access Control supporting distinct roles (scientists, team members, registered users), with OTP verification, login challenge, and password-reset flows.
Built a cross-platform mobile application (React Native) serving 200+ users, delivering curated agronomic content with offline support.
Orchestrated the migration of on-premise server environments to a containerized Docker architecture on a VPS, integrating S3-compatible object storage and achieving 99.9% uptime for the agronomist portal.
Established a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions to automate linting, testing, and Docker image deployment, reducing release time and deployment errors.
Handled incoming IT and feature requests directly with stakeholders, scoped requirements, and produced data reports to track portal usage and service throughput.

Software Automation Developer Intern Sep 2023 – Apr 2024

City of Edmonton · City Operations

Engineered a centralized scheduling dashboard that increased course throughput by 300%, ensuring timely recertification of over 200+ municipal waste employees and alignment with provincial OHS Act regulations.
Developed custom automation scripts using Google Apps Script and REST APIs to synchronize employee training data with municipal scheduling software.
Migrated 10,000+ historical training records from legacy spreadsheets into a relational database, reducing query times by ∼60% and eliminating duplicate data.
Defined data-validation rules during the legacy-records migration to catch malformed and duplicate entries, improving reporting accuracy for OHS recertification tracking.
Implemented Role-Based Access Control within Google Apps Script to protect sensitive employee data.
Built the scheduling dashboard’s front-end interface and collaborated with training coordinators to translate operational requirements into automated workflows.

Projects

FlowyForm

Form builder SaaS (Next.js, Postgres, S3) with drag-and-drop UI, dynamic schema generation, AI-assisted spam/fraud detection via OpenAI's moderation API, pre-signed S3 uploads, and a Jest/Playwright test suite (~80% coverage).

Accessible Reader — Capstone

Text-to-speech and translation web tool (React, Python, TTS/Translation APIs) helping immigrants, ESL learners, and students access reading material in their preferred language. Owned the translation pipeline and TTS playback UI, with accessibility-focused controls (adjustable speed, contrast, font scaling, language selection).