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Mckinney, Texas, United States

An application, by a US company, allows business users to rapidly launch turn-key storefronts and shoppable landing pages without relying on IT. It empowers merchants, accelerates time-to-market, and enables unique frontend experiences that drive business growth.• Migrated the frontend of the application from EC2 to S3/CloudFront, which has significantly improved the scalability, reliability, and performance of the application.• Migrated the application to Docker and fully documented the process, which improved the parity between the environments and drastically reduced the time of developer onboarding.• Migrating the backend of the application to ECS and added auto-scaling. This ensures the application can scale based on the load, ensuring scalability and reliability. This reduced the EC2 costs by 90% and deployment issues by 99%.• Added docker image vulnerability scanning in CI, which helped catch various security vulnerabilities.• Added static application security testing (SAST) for both application and infrastructure code, which helped fix multiple security issues.• Added security scanning of IaC code, which helped catch security issues before it is deployed anywhere.• Improved database security with automatic password rotation for database credentials, providing an extra layer of protection against security threats.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

CRM by a US startup from Boston (confidential) for creating landing pages/dynamic websites through CSVs, with 1.500+ clients and 20k pageviews per day.• Working in an agile team of 4 engineers, developing 1 monolith and 1 microservice using Django, FastAPI and Celery.• Built the entire framework for dynamic pages from scratch, which is being used by enterprise clients like United Airlines.• Built the entire framework for conditional content and personalized/ customized pages and integrated Shopify with our application, which brought more than 500 new clients.• Migrated our proprietary markup language from Jinja syntax to JSX syntax, which increased efficiency of the content team.• Migrated synchronous to asynchronous image resizing, which resulted in better page load times.• Integrated New Relic for performance monitoring, which allowed the team to fix various performance bottlenecks.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Sentimeter - Pakistani SaaS platform used by Metro and McDonald’s providing advanced diagnostics/analytics tools on customer feedback.• I worked in a team of 3 developing the app using Django, Celery ReactJS and React Native.• Improved software security by implementing best practices for app/infrastructure.• Increased performance by using various optimization techniques (transactions and data prefetching).

Lahore, Pakistan

Cheetay is a Pakistani delivery startup for food, groceries and medicine, backed by a $20M series-b funding.• I was part of an agile team of 4 (30+ developers worked on the whole project) and in charge of building the logistics application using Django and Celery.• Migrated the entire logistics backend from Flask to Django, which resulted in faster development.• Integrated Celery in the app to run long-running tasks asynchronously.• Also migrated the rider assignment algorithm from Vanilla Python to Django and applied optimization techniques like data prefetching/caching which allowed the algorithm to handle 400k orders per day from 1k before.• Built order auto-assignment which increased on-time delivery rate by 30% and order completion rate by 40%.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 3.55/4.00

React Nanodegree Program, Computer Software Engineering

Cloud Developer Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering

Cloud Devops Engineer, Devops