Nouman Abidi

Full-stack engineer with 5+ years building scalable backend systems and modern frontend architectures, with recent focus on integrating LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude) into production applications. Strong in Node.js, React/TypeScript, and Spring Boot; experienced across the full SDLC from RESTful API design to CI/CD and TDD.

Contract Software Engineer - Pilvi Systems - Los Angeles, CA

(2025-12)

Software Engineer - Pilvi Systems - Los Angeles, CA

(2025-07)

Lensed — Electronic Design Automation (EDA) platform for chip verification

• Led a full frontend redesign of Lens's flagship product ACE, migrating Redux → Zustand and cutting client bundle size by 35% / reducing unnecessary re-renders by 40%
• Built the multi-phase workflow (Upload → Navigator → Action → Context → Insights), including a virtualized, lazy-loaded hierarchy tree that renders netlists of 100K+ nodes/elements without UI lag
• Redefined zone/flavor/coupling interaction patterns with product, cutting screen-loading time from 5s to <500ms / reducing UI response latency by 90%
• Shipped ACE Desktop (Electron) with backend discovery and FlexNet license session lifecycle, enabling secure on-prem deployment for 50+ enterprise clients

Software Engineer - Pilvi Systems - Los Angeles, CA

(2026-01 - 2026-07)

Help Desk Community (iOS App)

• Built a community help desk iOS app using SwiftUI and MVVM architecture, with SwiftData for local caching and Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Functions, Storage, FCM) as the backend
• Implemented a full authentication flow including email/password sign-up, email verification, and Firestore-based user profile creation
• Integrated Core Location with reverse geocoding to support location-based features, including proper permission handling

Software Engineer - Pilvi Systems - Los Angeles, CA

(2026-01)

Platter — Restaurant conversation AI (client engagement)

• Built a scalable restaurant chatbot on Next.js, Node.js, and GPT-3.5 for personalized menu recommendations that help restaurants upsell orders
• Implemented real-time menu parsing with Tesseract.js OCR, processing 1,000+ items daily at ~95% accuracy and cutting 8+ hours of manual entry per restaurant
• Engineered a Node.js + Supabase (PostgreSQL) backend supporting 10,000+ concurrent users with <100ms responses and 99.9% uptime

Full-Stack Developer (Admin Portal Project) - BD Labs - Los Angeles, CA

(2025-09 - 2025-10)

• Built and deployed a full-stack admin portal using Next.js and TypeScript, with Prisma ORM for database management and Vercel for continuous deployment
• Designed and implemented an invoicing module to streamline billing and record-keeping workflows

Full Time Lead Instructor - Code Ninjas - Torrance, CA

(2023-10 - 2025-11)

Coding center teaching kids to build games and apps through project-based learning

• Built interactive JavaScript, Python, and C# Unity games that give students hands-on coding practice
• Lead a team of instructors and design engaging learning experiences for school-age students
• Launched coding competitions that grew student participation 40% and increased parent engagement

Full Time Software Engineer 1 - Next Trucking - Torrance, CA

(2022-09 - 2023-08)

• Built and optimized backend microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and TypeScript, improving freight dispatch efficiency by 25%
• Led a complete UI migration of legacy class components to React functional components, enhancing platform observability and reducing technical debt
• Integrated Salesforce and Boomi for automated workflow synchronization, streamlining operations for enterprise logistics
• Implemented automated exception handling and a logging pipeline using Elasticsearch and Datadog, reducing incident resolution time by 40%

Part Time Web Developer - Student Affairs IT, CSUN - Northridge, CA

(2021-02 - 2022-09)

• Developed accessible, student-centric web applications using Ruby on Rails for a user base of 30,000+ students
• Maintained 100% test coverage for critical features using RSpec and ensured strict compliance with accessibility standards

Master of Science - Computer Engineering (Major: Web Development) - California State University Northridge

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering - Rajasthan Technical University