Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, manage payments, order food and groceries, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.I joined Careem Pay, the Fintech division of Careem. I am part of the pay platform core engineering team. • As part of this team, I have worked on platformization of the digital wallet in Careem app • We designed and developed Open-loop wallet through integration with First Abu-Dhabi Bank. Which enables users to withdraw or send their money from their Careem wallet to any other bank, Pay bills, Send money to contacts using just their phone number, and many more. • We designed and developed the KYC (Know Your Customer) experience and services through which user registers using their Emirates ID to convert their wallet to Open-loop wallet • Designed and developed a robust limits service enforce dynamically configurable wallet usage limits • Reduce the tech debt by deprecating legacy monolith service and migrating to micro services. This optimized the whole system 10x and reduced the error rate to less than 2%.

My core responsibilities were to lead multiple projects, client communication, requirements gathering, analysis and design, assigning tasks to resources, code reviews and also mentor and train junior resources. Apart from all above I am also doing hands-on development in some projects and modules.See below for details of work and projects.

Gameview Studios (www.gameviewstudios.com) is a leading publisher of free-to-play games for iPhone, Android and other mobile platforms. Founded in 2010, Gameview is committed to building high-quality games that are social, engaging and fun for audiences of all ages. The company was acquired in 2010 by Japanese firm DeNA (http://www.dena.jp/en/ ), one of the world’s most successful mobile Internet companies with games and community products that reach 100 million consumers spanning mobile and PC platforms. Gameview’s titles include the Tap Fish and Tap Ranch franchises, Tap Birds, Tap Town, Tap Mall and Titans vs Olympians. Role & Responsibilities: One of the Leads of “Server division” of GameView. Managing a team of talented Software Engineers working on multiple server modules. The server team designed and built secure, highly scalable, robust and configurable servers which integrated with all the mobile game applications and used for the various in game functionalities. Language & Tools: Python, Django Framework, MySQL 5.1, Apache & LightHttpd webserver, Linux (CentOS & Ubuntu) , Rackspace & EC2 Cloud, JQuery, Google AppEngine + BigTable, Datastore I have been working with this company since March 2007.- Worked in xDoc division in the start (see past experience below)- Worked in OfferPal Media Team for almost 3 years which was the largest and most successful project in the company (see past experience below)See below for details of work and projects

Offerpal Media became the leading social media monetization platform for social applications, online games, virtual worlds, mobile apps, and social publishers. The Offerpal virtual currency solution enables game developers and social publishers to monetize, analyze, and optimize their virtual economies. Full-service payment platform has enabled more than 100 million consumers to purchase virtual currency through direct payment options such as credit cards, micro-transactions, and mobile billing, or earn it by taking part in any of our 4,000+ targeted advertising offers. Offerpal’s turnkey monetization platform uses a sophisticated optimization engine and proprietary algorithms to generate publisher revenues at a network-wide average of $80 per day for every 1,000 Daily Active Users.I was part of the team comprising of excellent software architects and engineers, that developed the online administrative module, internally named “Console”, which was used to control and configure all the other websites/modules. Worked as the primary dev resource and later promoted to "Tech Lead" responsible for coordinating overall development & maintenance of complete “console” module.Built reporting website used by internal users and customers to view customizable dynamic reports of daily statistics and revenues.Also built a Virtual Currency Analytics tool, which was highly customizable, scalable and robust. User can view reports, statistical dynamic graphs regarding revenues, eCPM, etc. The project involved usage of datawarehousing concepts of summarizing transactional data and ETL and the on front end a flash graphing library was used to generate dynamic interactive graphs.Worked in a team to build website plus social network application for facebook and mySpace using PHP. Language & Tools: J2EE, Hibernate, Struts, Free Marker, Jasper Reports, JFree Charts, amCharts , JSP 2.0, YUI, Ajax, MySQL and Oracle DB, Apache & Jetty webserver.

• xDoc Pro - http://www.cambridgedocs.com/RTF2j Driver - A module of xDoc Pro, which converts standard Rich-Text-Format (rtf) files to stylistic XML rendering of the file. The output contains information of file complete file contents like text, styles, layout and graphical information.Responsibility: Worked as primary dev resource responsible for overall research, development and maintenance.PublishWordML Driver - A module of xDoc Pro, which converts stylistic XML to a Microsoft WordML file. Responsibility: Worked as primary dev resource responsible for research, development and maintenance.• PublishDocx Driver - A module of xDoc Pro, which converts stylistic XML to a Microsoft Word 2007 .docx files. Responsibility: Dev team member responsible for research and development.Language & Tools: JAVA using Eclipse, XML, XSLT, XPath, WordML (Microsoft Word XML)