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title: Experience
description: Roles, contracts, and what I built at each.
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tags: [resume, experience]
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lastUpdated: 2026-04-17
url: https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/about/experience
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## Big Minds Tiny Hands / Tiny Platforms [#big-minds-tiny-hands--tiny-platforms]

**Software Engineer · Contract · New York, NY · Dec 2025 – Present**

Sole developer for a pediatric therapy agency's entire technology stack. Six
production applications serving four agencies across New York's Early
Intervention market. Every line of code is mine; every deployment, every
user-facing bug, every three-AM alert.

* Replaced three enterprise platforms, saving the agency $5,100 every month.
* Tiny Time Keeper: 5,692 employee-hours tracked, 33 employees, 742 shifts, 537 automated tests.
* Tiny Steps CMS: 42 users across 4 agencies, 205 patients, $45K invoiced, 2,375 test cases.
* Tiny Thoughts: 37 users, 22,940+ discrete trials, 877 commits. Replaced $3K/mo Rethink BA.
* Built shared infrastructure across all apps — component library, validators, configuration packages.
* HIPAA-compliant from the foundation: row-level security, AES-256-GCM encryption, audit trails, credential lockout, SSN encryption at rest.

**Stack:** Next.js 16, Rails 8.1, PostgreSQL, Convex, Better Auth, Stripe,
Drizzle, Vercel, Fly.io.

## New York City Housing Authority [#new-york-city-housing-authority]

**Cyber Security Intern · Hybrid, New York, NY · Jun 2025 – Jan 2026**

One of two interns selected for cybersecurity at the largest public housing
authority in North America — responsible for the digital safety of
infrastructure that serves four hundred thousand New Yorkers.

* Monitored and investigated security events across Splunk and CrowdStrike Falcon.
* Assisted in incident response — triage, threat analysis, and remediation.
* Reviewed vulnerability scan data and learned to prioritize risk by impact, not severity score.
* Worked across endpoint protection, data loss prevention, and security control implementation.

**Stack:** Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon, Veracode, Zscaler, Defender XDR.

## Beyer Blinder Belle [#beyer-blinder-belle]

**Design & Construction Technology Intern · New York, NY · Jun 2024 – Aug 2024**

Replaced fragile automation — Power Automate flows and Excel macros — with
Python scripts that still run daily, a year after my internship ended.

* Built Python automation for BIM file management with a centralized Tkinter interface.
* Automated execution via Windows Task Scheduler with logging, retries, and failure alerts.
* Built SQLite storage and PowerBI dashboards for monitoring file system health.
* Documented to PEP8. Still generating ROI eighteen months later.

**Stack:** Python, SQLite, PowerBI, Tkinter.

## The Hardy Group [#the-hardy-group]

**Marketing Intern · New York, NY · Oct 2023 – Dec 2023**

Migrated a CRM from Salesforce to Airtable and built the data entry protocols
the team still uses.

## International Socioeconomics Laboratory [#international-socioeconomics-laboratory]

**Web Developer / Team Lead · Remote · Sep 2021 – Aug 2022**

Led teams of ten students in building websites from scratch. Taught people to
code who had never written a line — which taught me that explaining is the
deepest form of understanding.