# Usama Sulaiman (@usaa.ma)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/usaa.ma
Headline: Engineering at Heartbeat Medical

## About

A engineer with a focus on usability and user experience. Currently working on making it easier for hospitals to measure treatment outcomes for patients through software.

I am always interested and excited to discuss and brainstorm on diverse problems.

## Career

- **Lead - Product and Engineering at Heartbeat Medical** (Mar 2026 - Present)
- **Engineering Team Lead at Heartbeat Medical** (May 2025 - Feb 2026)
- **Founding Member at Appspell Interactive** (Jan 2017 - Jun 2025)
  Handling design, content and UI development of web solutions for clients from industries such as travel, healthcare and arts & culture.
- **Engineering Manager at Heartbeat Medical** (Aug 2023 - Apr 2025)
- **Senior Software Engineer at Heartbeat Medical** (Nov 2022 - Jul 2023)
  Helping develop tech that lets hospitals and healthcare providers measure the ultimate outcome for patients, improvement in quality of life.
- **Principal Engineer at Noon - Education for Everyone** (Apr 2022 - Oct 2022)
  Planning & developing teacher classroom features like reusable slides. Designed and build interactive study groups on student web app before this using real-time communication technologies like webRTC
- **Senior Product Engineer at Noon - Education for Everyone** (Apr 2020 - Mar 2022)
  \- Oversaw or worked on multiple critical projects, including building web architecture for social study experiences and editing/customising tutoring replay sessions.
  \- Hired and worked with multiple contractual members; prioritising, delegating work as the acting lead. Streamlined development and release processes, documentation and onboarding among others.
  \- Planned roadmap, brought stakeholders on board and pushed improvements on web that included a move to typescript, introduction of unit & end-to-end tests and a POC that led to a move to Next.js.
  \- Improved data capturing and inconsistency issues by writing an Analytics SDK for web.
- **Product Engineer at Noon - Education for Everyone** (Jan 2019 - Mar 2020)
  Improving review process, design guidelines adoption, etc was a focus throughout this phase. Majorly,
  \- Created a react component design system as a pluggable library to be used in multiple apps
  \- Worked on multiple classroom projects such as breakout rooms and live-social-update using webRTC and websocket.
- **Frontend Web Developer at Noon - Education for Everyone** (Jan 2017 - Dec 2018)
- **UI Developer at Noon - Education for Everyone** (Aug 2016 - Dec 2016)
- **Founding Member at Appspell Interactive** (Mar 2015 - Dec 2016)
- **User Interface Engineer at Leanport Software Pvt Ltd. - Seo Company India** (Jun 2014 - Feb 2015)
  Wireframing, design and coding responsive UI for websites. Worked with Sketch, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
  
  Assisted and mentored other developers on frontend concepts.
- **Web Designer at Ektara India** (Feb 2013 - May 2014)
  Project of the University of Heidelberg  The project was called Visual Pilgrim. It was a normal blog style website build with jQuery, HTML & CSS, powered by a PHP based CMS  About: An attempt by the 'Center for Transcultural Studies' at the University of Heidelberg to map popular visuality and devotional media at Sufi shrines and other Islamic institutions in South Asia.
  
  Visit the website at http://visualpilgrim.uni-hd.de/
- **Freelance Writer at Hindustan Times** (May 2013 - Jul 2013)
  Published interview and research based articles as contributor to an ongoing weekly series in the newspaper during this period.
- **Editorial Assistant Intern at Hindustan Times** (Apr 2013 - May 2013)
  Interviewed various artists and reported on events for entertainment supplement of the national daily. Published book reviews and contributed to the reader input based sections of the supplement.
- **Archive Digitiser at Ektara India** (Mar 2012 - Nov 2012)
  Worked on the digitisation of archived film magazines in a joint project of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia.

## Skills

### Technical
- CSS
- HTML
- JavaScript
- React.js
- TypeScript
- Web Development
### Business
- Project Management
### Creative
- User Experience
- User Interface Design
### Other
- Creative Writing
- SASS

## Publications

- Fable comes to the rescue — magpie.offprint.app (Jul 2026) https://magpie.offprint.app/a/3mqjgp7qic623-fable-comes-to-the-rescue
- Code responsibly, don't drink and vibecode — usama.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://usama.leaflet.pub/3mpdjez6cz22g
- A Standard Podcast Record — magpie.offprint.app (Jun 2026) https://magpie.offprint.app/a/3mnopyvigug23-a-standard-podcast-record
- Uneventful — magpie.offprint.app (Jun 2026) https://magpie.offprint.app/a/3mnbzubk76k23-uneventful
- How much can you learn? — magpie.offprint.app (May 2026) https://magpie.offprint.app/a/3mmnz6isa4723-how-much-can-you-learn
- AI chooses who to kill — magpie.offprint.app (Mar 2026) https://magpie.offprint.app/a/3mi2u5s5b3o23-ai-chooses-who-to-kill
- My Daughter's Dada — sandooq.leaflet.pub (Feb 2025) https://sandooq.leaflet.pub/3miejjehixc2k
- An unusual work day — sandooq.leaflet.pub (Mar 2017) https://sandooq.leaflet.pub/3miehifgvw227
- The Cave — sandooq.leaflet.pub (Jun 2012) https://sandooq.leaflet.pub/3miow55ynmc2y
- The Cave — sandooq.leaflet.pub (Jun 2012) https://sandooq.leaflet.pub/3miovr6yvzc2p

## Education

- **Maharshi Dayanand University** — Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

## Languages

- Hindi (native)
- Urdu (native)
- English (full professional)
- German (elementary)

## Links

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/usamasulaiman
- GitHub: https://github.com/usamasulaiman
- Website: https://usaa.ma