
Malak Raef developed core features and infrastructure for Baghdad-Squad/Novix and TheChance101/MENA-backend, focusing on scalable architecture and robust data handling. She implemented end-to-end API integrations and domain-driven backend models using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot, enabling modular feature delivery for TV, movie, and transaction analytics. Her work included building reusable UI components with Jetpack Compose, optimizing database queries, and establishing clean repository and service layers. Malak emphasized code clarity, testability, and maintainability through systematic refactoring, dependency injection, and comprehensive unit testing. These contributions improved reliability, accelerated feature rollout, and ensured accurate, user-focused reporting and analytics across both platforms.

Month: 2025-10 — TheChance101/MENA-backend: Delivered major back-end improvements focused on reporting accuracy and maintainability. Key items: 1) Sorting and transaction history enhancements: standardized sorting for statements (ascending by creation date) and transactions (descending); centralized sorting logic; updated retrieval and tests. 2) Bug fixes: Dukan owner transactions categorized as Received; statement PDFs/headers end date corrected to end-of-day. 3) Code quality: moved UserTransactionType to service.helper to better align with service-layer responsibilities. 4) Testing: updated tests (TransactionServiceTest.kt) to reflect new behavior. Business impact: more reliable financial reporting, reduced data misclassification, and a cleaner, scalable backend.
Month: 2025-10 — TheChance101/MENA-backend: Delivered major back-end improvements focused on reporting accuracy and maintainability. Key items: 1) Sorting and transaction history enhancements: standardized sorting for statements (ascending by creation date) and transactions (descending); centralized sorting logic; updated retrieval and tests. 2) Bug fixes: Dukan owner transactions categorized as Received; statement PDFs/headers end date corrected to end-of-day. 3) Code quality: moved UserTransactionType to service.helper to better align with service-layer responsibilities. 4) Testing: updated tests (TransactionServiceTest.kt) to reflect new behavior. Business impact: more reliable financial reporting, reduced data misclassification, and a cleaner, scalable backend.
September 2025 performance summary for TheChance101/MENA-backend: Delivered foundational backend architecture, core domain model, and robust APIs to support per-user transaction analytics and reporting. Implemented essential persistence layers (Transaction, Block, Wallet, WalletUser, PublicKey) with TransactionBlockCrossRef, and established a complete TransactionRepository API plus TransactionService and TransactionController for querying transactions with sorting, current-user scoping, and filters. Added advanced projections and lightweight response models to optimize API payloads, including TransactionProjection, TransactionResponse, and PageResponse. Refactored and hardened Wallet functionality: removed Wallet entity, updated endpoints, relocated files, added unit tests for WalletService, and restructured packages for maintainability. Improved data access by switching sender/receiver fetch to eager and cleaning up dependencies and naming, contributing to performance and reliability. Also implemented earliest transaction date support and improved endpoint naming for the first transaction date feature, enabling enhanced analytics and user-facing reporting. Business impact: faster time-to-value for reporting features, improved security and data integrity, and a maintainable codebase with per-user transaction insights, earliest date reporting, and robust filtering/sorting capabilities.
September 2025 performance summary for TheChance101/MENA-backend: Delivered foundational backend architecture, core domain model, and robust APIs to support per-user transaction analytics and reporting. Implemented essential persistence layers (Transaction, Block, Wallet, WalletUser, PublicKey) with TransactionBlockCrossRef, and established a complete TransactionRepository API plus TransactionService and TransactionController for querying transactions with sorting, current-user scoping, and filters. Added advanced projections and lightweight response models to optimize API payloads, including TransactionProjection, TransactionResponse, and PageResponse. Refactored and hardened Wallet functionality: removed Wallet entity, updated endpoints, relocated files, added unit tests for WalletService, and restructured packages for maintainability. Improved data access by switching sender/receiver fetch to eager and cleaning up dependencies and naming, contributing to performance and reliability. Also implemented earliest transaction date support and improved endpoint naming for the first transaction date feature, enabling enhanced analytics and user-facing reporting. Business impact: faster time-to-value for reporting features, improved security and data integrity, and a maintainable codebase with per-user transaction insights, earliest date reporting, and robust filtering/sorting capabilities.
Month: 2025-08 – Performance review-friendly monthly summary for Baghdad-Squad/Novix. Overview: - Delivered substantial backend and frontend improvements, establishing robust end-to-end API integration for TV Show, Movie, and Episode modules, alongside wide-ranging UI refinements and reliability enhancements. Focused on business value: faster feature delivery, safer changes through clean architecture, and a smoother user experience across the app. Key features and functionality delivered (business value oriented): - End-to-end API integration for TV Show, Movie, and Episode modules, including new endpoints, data classes, remote data sources, repositories, and DI wiring. - UI/UX improvements and system readiness: rating bottom sheet flow with success snackbar, removal of redundant search filters, and design system previews to accelerate UI consistency. - Architecture and testability: setup of use-cases for TV Show/Movie/Episode, refactored repository interfaces, DI wiring for new use-cases, and UI state/mapper enhancements to support scalable feature growth. - Performance and reliability improvements: optimized user state checks, CI base URL stabilization, and targeted test stability efforts. - Code quality and maintainability: extensive refactors for imports, naming consistency (tvShowId), and cleanup of legacy patterns to reduce coupling and improve onboarding of new features. Impact and business value: - Reduced time-to-market for new endpoints and features by enabling a modular, testable core and clearer ownership of API/data layers. - Improved user experience with reliable loading/retry flows, polished rating UX, and consistent UI behavior across screens. - More stable builds and tests, lowering release risk and enabling faster iteration cycles. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Kotlin/Android architecture (Clean Architecture, DI, Repository/Use-Case layers) - API design and data mapping (data classes, remote data sources, endpoints, mappers) - UI/UX/Design System work (bottom sheets, snackbars, design previews, navigation refactors) - CI/CD reliability and quality assurance (CI base URL fixes, test stabilization, merge conflict resolution) - Refactoring discipline (imports, naming consistency, code style, and modularization)
Month: 2025-08 – Performance review-friendly monthly summary for Baghdad-Squad/Novix. Overview: - Delivered substantial backend and frontend improvements, establishing robust end-to-end API integration for TV Show, Movie, and Episode modules, alongside wide-ranging UI refinements and reliability enhancements. Focused on business value: faster feature delivery, safer changes through clean architecture, and a smoother user experience across the app. Key features and functionality delivered (business value oriented): - End-to-end API integration for TV Show, Movie, and Episode modules, including new endpoints, data classes, remote data sources, repositories, and DI wiring. - UI/UX improvements and system readiness: rating bottom sheet flow with success snackbar, removal of redundant search filters, and design system previews to accelerate UI consistency. - Architecture and testability: setup of use-cases for TV Show/Movie/Episode, refactored repository interfaces, DI wiring for new use-cases, and UI state/mapper enhancements to support scalable feature growth. - Performance and reliability improvements: optimized user state checks, CI base URL stabilization, and targeted test stability efforts. - Code quality and maintainability: extensive refactors for imports, naming consistency (tvShowId), and cleanup of legacy patterns to reduce coupling and improve onboarding of new features. Impact and business value: - Reduced time-to-market for new endpoints and features by enabling a modular, testable core and clearer ownership of API/data layers. - Improved user experience with reliable loading/retry flows, polished rating UX, and consistent UI behavior across screens. - More stable builds and tests, lowering release risk and enabling faster iteration cycles. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Kotlin/Android architecture (Clean Architecture, DI, Repository/Use-Case layers) - API design and data mapping (data classes, remote data sources, endpoints, mappers) - UI/UX/Design System work (bottom sheets, snackbars, design previews, navigation refactors) - CI/CD reliability and quality assurance (CI base URL fixes, test stabilization, merge conflict resolution) - Refactoring discipline (imports, naming consistency, code style, and modularization)
July 2025 performance summary for Baghdad-Squad/Novix. The team delivered a cohesive UI design system with theming alignment, accelerated feature delivery through foundational UI components, and established a solid domain layer to enable scalable growth. Notable improvements in test reliability, UI/UX, and architecture set the stage for rapid iteration on streaming/movie detail features and filtering workflows.
July 2025 performance summary for Baghdad-Squad/Novix. The team delivered a cohesive UI design system with theming alignment, accelerated feature delivery through foundational UI components, and established a solid domain layer to enable scalable growth. Notable improvements in test reliability, UI/UX, and architecture set the stage for rapid iteration on streaming/movie detail features and filtering workflows.
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