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ZABI BABAR


Software Engineer @ LTK
React · TypeScript · NestJS · Design Systems
Founder / Organizer of Tampa Volunteers

WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer

LTK


  • Architected the frontend of LTK's Creator Management Platform — creator discovery with 30+ filter criteria, infinite-scroll feeds, and a home dashboard. Unveiled at LTKCon 2025; since driving $11.75M in accepted offer value from 159K+ offers, 1,182 brands, and 11,094 creators.
  • Lead engineer on the company's React component library: designed the primitive/semantic/component token architecture and the Figma-to-Tailwind v4 token pipeline.
  • One of two frontend engineers company-wide on LTK's Product Link Extension; built the entire UI plus an LLM-assisted visual-validation harness. Now ~500K scrapes/week across Amazon, Walmart, and Revolve.

Remote | Mar 2025 - Present
Software Engineer

Expert Institute


  • Designed the backend of a two-sided attorney–expert-witness marketplace: PostgreSQL schema plus NestJS repository, domain, and API layers powering expense tracking, activity logging, agreement signing, and payments.
  • Built the Salesforce integration syncing opportunity and subscription data into the platform database, and implemented role-based access control with NestJS guards and Redis caching to gate features by subscription tier.
  • Improved the agile process with the product team, cutting sprint rollover 50% and clarifying estimation and deadlines.

Remote | Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Software Engineer

SquareTrade, Inc.


  • Led a globally distributed scrum team architecting a configurable white-label branding system for claim filing by shoppers redirected from Walmart, Home Depot, Target, and other partner storefronts.
  • Built the app's Angular localization pipe, delivering Lokalise translations with locale-aware date and number formatting.
  • Mentored junior engineers on technical and leadership skills, guiding them to promotion.

Remote | Feb 2022 - Aug 2023
Fullstack Software Engineer

GreenLight IoT


  • Led end-to-end design and implementation of IoT building management dashboards using Angular, NgRx, NestJS, MongoDB, and Google Maps API.
  • Optimized app startup load time by 90% via route-level lazy loading and NgRx state caching.
  • Standardized coding practices (style guide, Prettier, ESLint) and introduced Figma into the SDLC for a design-first approach.

Tampa, FL (Hybrid) | Sep 2020 - Feb 2022

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