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Mukerem Shifa

Experience

A blend of full-stack development, AI integrations, leadership, and community. Focused on building scalable features, optimizing performance, and shipping production-grade solutions.

  1. Jan 2026 — Present · Ras al-Khaimah, UAE · Remote

    Employment

    Building a game layer into an existing survey product alongside colleagues: XP, levels, badges, and a completion sequence, aimed at lifting response rates without distorting the responses themselves.

    • Lifted survey completion rates by 31% with the progression layer in place.
    • Awarded progress for participation rather than for particular answers, so the completion lift is not bought with response quality.
    • React
    • Vite
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Framer Motion
    • Docker
    • nginx
  2. May 2025 — Aug 2025 · Ras al-Khaimah, UAE · Remote

    Internship

    SEO and Content Optimization Intern

    Amtec Links (opens in a new tab)

    Ran a full technical SEO audit for an IT services company, built a keyword strategy from it, then wrote and published the content that put the strategy into practice.

    • Built a 25-keyword strategy off the audit using Google Keyword Planner, Ubersuggest, and Ahrefs.
    • Wrote and published 10 optimized posts on WordPress, restructuring content hierarchy, keyword placement, and internal linking.
    • Delivered a six-week action plan and a written recommendations guide for sustained visibility across search engines.
    • Technical SEO
    • SEO Audit
    • Keyword Research
    • Metadata Optimization
    • Content Strategy
    • Analytics
    • WordPress
  3. Sep 2024 — Present · Ras al-Khaimah, UAE

    Employment

    Reviewing and shaping the club's projects and technical content, including the CS course material incoming students lean on, and running sessions for a range of experience levels.

    • Organized an AI debate for the club.
    • Contribute to the monthly Dev Discussions.
  4. Sep 2024 — May 2025 · Ras al-Khaimah, UAE · On-site

    Employment

    Teaching Assistant and Tutor, Object-Oriented Programming

    American University of Ras Al Khaimah (opens in a new tab)

    Supported instruction for an object-oriented programming course of roughly 15 students across two semesters — preparing materials, facilitating discussion, and tutoring individually and in groups on inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation.

    • Java
  5. Sep 2024 — May 2026 · Ras al-Khaimah, UAE

    Independent

    Founded a university club with colleagues, aimed at preserving the nature and the domestic animals around the campus, and kept it running through its first year and a half.

    • Built a cat house for the campus cats by the end of 2025.
  6. Jan 2024 — Aug 2024 · Ras al-Khaimah, UAE

    Independent

    Represented the university within its multicultural student community through the year, and coordinated events on its behalf — among them the Middle East QS Education Summit, which the university hosted.

Check out my education history on the about page.

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I read everything that arrives. If you are hiring, scoping a project, or stuck on a multi-tenancy or LLM integration problem, a few sentences about the constraint is enough to start a useful conversation.