Mahatheer Hamid
Blacksburg
Summary
Streamify: Music Streaming App
- I built Streamify, a music streaming service with user authentication, playlists, and playback features using modern web technologies.
- Implemented efficient backend data handling and caching mechanisms, reducing the average song load time by approximately 45%.
- Designed a responsive UI and modular front-end architecture, improving user navigation speed by approximately 35%.
- Optimized database queries and API responses, improving data fetch speed by approximately 40%.
- Tested edge cases and handled errors, reducing application crashes and failures by approximately 50%.
Snapfire App — a social media platform.
- Built a scalable social media platform enabling user posting, likes, comments, and follower networks.
- Implemented efficient database schemas and optimized queries, improving feed retrieval times by approximately 50%.
- Designed modular UI components and API endpoints, cutting development iteration time by approximately 40%.
- Improved platform reliability through input validation and authentication hardening, reducing faulty requests by approximately 60%.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Blockchain Developer Intern
Swft Blockchain
New York
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Developed and rolled out a blockchain on the Google Cloud. Enabled cryptographically secure transactional hashing using SHA-1 for blockchain, reliable data integrity, and consistency.
- Architected and implemented peer-to-peer node communication and consensus logic to emulate real-world decentralized networks.
- Wrote internal tests to validate transaction flow and verify block generation. Performed a security evaluation of how transactions are processed, and the efficiency under different loads.
- Created weekly Web3 investment analysis reports through Minitab and Excel, resulting in actionable conclusions from market data.
- Researched new trends in blockchain: DeFi, Layer-2 scaling, and NFTs (Sandbox); wrote overviews for leadership and dev teams.
- Worked with engineers and analysts to enhance system reliability, documentation, and report accuracy. Aided in the verification of smart contract logic and deployment flow.
Software Engineering Intern
Codecademy
New York
05.2024 - 08.2024
- Engineered 25+ class-based programs utilizing enterprise-level OOP design principles.
- Optimized search and traversal algorithms for the ArrayLists and 2D data structures to enhance performance across workloads.
- Automated development workflows with Linux Bash scripting, reducing manual operations time by approximately 40%.
- Implemented multithreading patterns to achieve concurrent data handling and improve application responsiveness.
- Developed data-processing applications using Java collections and arrays, validating over 50 algorithm test cases per project.
- Constructed modular programs with clean interfaces and nested class structures to facilitate independent testing and reuse. Applied regex-based validation pipelines for structured input parsing and effective error handling.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA05-2027
Skills
- Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C/C, Go, Solidity, Rust, SQL, Bash
- Backend & Cloud: FastAPI, Flask, Nodejs, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Firebase, MongoDB, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Kubernetes
- AI & Systems: LangChain, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Vector Search, Embeddings
- Frontend: Nextjs, Tailwind CSS, SwiftUI
- Blockchain: Web3js, Ethersjs, Hardhat, Truffle, Proof-of-Stake (PoS), SHA-1 Hashing
Timeline
Blockchain Developer Intern
Swft Blockchain
05.2025 - 08.2025
Software Engineering Intern
Codecademy
05.2024 - 08.2024
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Virginia Tech