Muhammad Naveed Akram Email & Phone Number

Singapore

▪ The DQ Institute (DQI) is an international think-tank that is dedicated to setting globalstandards for digital intelligence education, outreach, and policies. Working together with international agencies and local partners, DQI builds multi-stakeholder coalitions that advance its mission and help people worldwide.▪ Part of compact engineering team, consist of only few elite people. So, engineering responsibilities are on wider spectrum over here, all the way from thinking & design… Show more ▪ The DQ Institute (DQI) is an international think-tank that is dedicated to setting globalstandards for digital intelligence education, outreach, and policies. Working together with international agencies and local partners, DQI builds multi-stakeholder coalitions that advance its mission and help people worldwide.▪ Part of compact engineering team, consist of only few elite people. So, engineering responsibilities are on wider spectrum over here, all the way from thinking & design phase, till coding & testing. Show less

Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan

▪ Seasonal Consultancy work. Short term contract based, or volunteer based.▪ Along with resource finalization in recruitment process offering as service to variousorganization.

Lahore, Pakistan

▪ Worked in 4 areas here.o Leading the Product Vision (One-X) and was Architect + Product Engineer of it, also built the team for it, was part of Recruitment team aside this product as well.o Ensuring Code Quality and Providing Solution Document for any critical change in existing System (Team of 3 Architects, Collaborated work).o Optimizations of Code Architecture, System Design & Cleaning-up of Code.o Future proof planning and doing R&D on making evolutionary changes on… Show more ▪ Worked in 4 areas here.o Leading the Product Vision (One-X) and was Architect + Product Engineer of it, also built the team for it, was part of Recruitment team aside this product as well.o Ensuring Code Quality and Providing Solution Document for any critical change in existing System (Team of 3 Architects, Collaborated work).o Optimizations of Code Architecture, System Design & Cleaning-up of Code.o Future proof planning and doing R&D on making evolutionary changes on bothbackend and front-end, along with feasibility and time + cost budget assessments.▪ Mainly I had responsibilities in leading the product vision for “OneX-Platform” and building aPlatform as a Service.o It provides tool set to Developers & Designers, to easily build apps and integrateservices, application they would build will be available as Reskinning (becauseplatform tools will help to drive the development practice to enable it).o It also provides a web-based portal to further manage projects and createapplications from available templates. Anyone with no coding expertise can use it tobuild app for mobile platforms (IOS, Android & PWA).o Aside from visual changes, this platform is designed to make functional changesrobust as well.o Platform is designed in a way that it would support the visual programmingcapability, which is also in roadmap to be developed in later versions.o Content Management and Data Configuration is also provided with a very flexibleway. Along with very flexible and detailed Access Control Layer.▪ I was also responsible of doing any research and make technology adaptation decisions.▪ I was pioneer for introducing NodeJS and React/React-Native. Aside that most of existingsolutions are built on PHP-Symfony, PHP-Yii, Python-Flask. Data is stored on MySQL,MongoDB & Elasticsearch.▪ I was working actively on Micro-Services architecture adaptation, it was still in progress when Ileave, and did entered have 3rd stage and was continuously evolving. Show less

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Lahore, Pakistan

Dynamic Logix is full lifecycle software development company, my commitment with company is on-demand and following are my responsibilities  Establishing the company’s technical vision and leading all aspects of the company’s technological development. Directs the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth. Keeping "Tech" in order Helping to build, manage, and validate a tech roadmap for our products and clients. Conducting research and case studies… Show more Dynamic Logix is full lifecycle software development company, my commitment with company is on-demand and following are my responsibilities  Establishing the company’s technical vision and leading all aspects of the company’s technological development. Directs the company’s strategic direction, development and future growth. Keeping "Tech" in order Helping to build, manage, and validate a tech roadmap for our products and clients. Conducting research and case studies on leading edge technologies and makes determinations on the probability of implementation. Responsible for all in house and clients work regarding DevOps (Linux installations and configurations) and infrastructure on AWS. Commonly used services are EC2, LAMBDA, RDS, IAM, SES, S3, Route53, ELB, Code Commit etc. Working as mentor for fresh & 1-2 years’ experience developers. Making improvement in their solution and problem-solving approach, also training and moving them to latest software stack like ReactJS, NodeJS & React-Native. Show less

Pakistan

 Worked standalone on a product for construction takeoffs & cost + materials estimation. Designed and architected the whole system from scratch, also choose the technology stack. Completed the MVP in 1 year by working 15-20 hours per week. It has features like STACK(https://www.stackct.com/Construction-Software/Pro)Demo video link(https://youtu.be/lMHLuSuxGDQ)-- Frameworks and Technologies usedReactJS, Redux, NodeJS, HTML Canvas, Linode. Worked on my own product for automated… Show more  Worked standalone on a product for construction takeoffs & cost + materials estimation. Designed and architected the whole system from scratch, also choose the technology stack. Completed the MVP in 1 year by working 15-20 hours per week. It has features like STACK(https://www.stackct.com/Construction-Software/Pro)Demo video link(https://youtu.be/lMHLuSuxGDQ)-- Frameworks and Technologies usedReactJS, Redux, NodeJS, HTML Canvas, Linode. Worked on my own product for automated data extraction from web-pages, idea was to make Crawler as a Service, Software Architect on this project. Freeze development 3 months after prototype phase.Demo video link(https://youtu.be/7JbyIroCjVA)-- Frameworks and Technologies used Electron, WebPack, ReactJS, Redux-Store, NodeJS, AWS Server-less Architecture. Developed the backend for social mobile game from scratch, game had 5+ million users with 80 thousand daily active users. I also managed the whole DevOps for that much load using Amazon Web Services.-- Frameworks and Technologies used Python, Django, SVN, shell scripting, amazon web services (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS) Working as a consultant for all kind of software solutions and providing on demand Full-Stack Services for Python, JavaScript and AWS. Show less

Singapore

Built a payment gateway system (goPay) from scratch. An intelligent backend which decides the payment channel among different payment providers based on financial matrix. The product also had 3 front-ends (admin dashboard, finance dashboard, developer’s dashboard) and 2 SDK’s (Android-SDK, Unity-SDK). I was responsible for coding all the services and supervising the front-end and mobile developers. Prior to that worked on game server backend as well (Java, Struts, EC2, RDS)-- Frameworks… Show more Built a payment gateway system (goPay) from scratch. An intelligent backend which decides the payment channel among different payment providers based on financial matrix. The product also had 3 front-ends (admin dashboard, finance dashboard, developer’s dashboard) and 2 SDK’s (Android-SDK, Unity-SDK). I was responsible for coding all the services and supervising the front-end and mobile developers. Prior to that worked on game server backend as well (Java, Struts, EC2, RDS)-- Frameworks and Technologies used Python, Django, git, GitLab (repositories hosting & auto-build-process), shell scripting, gunicorn, celery, supervisor, Nginx, RabbitMQ, AWS (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route-53, CloudFront, ElastiCache, IAM, SQS, SNS, SES, Load-Balancer, Auto-Scaling) Show less

Lahore, Pakistan

2015-16: Backend for the mobile game with skinning/theme management form backend as well (Django, PostgreSQL, amazon-AWS) Backend for cricket scoring application like CricInfo (http://www.espncricinfo.com/) later merged into company new cricket platform CricInGif (https://www.cricingif.com/) (Django, MySQL, amazon-AWS) Backend developed in Django for serving content (mini CMS) for various mobile applications (Django, MySQL, custom remote servers) Backend of sale and purchase… Show more 2015-16: Backend for the mobile game with skinning/theme management form backend as well (Django, PostgreSQL, amazon-AWS) Backend for cricket scoring application like CricInfo (http://www.espncricinfo.com/) later merged into company new cricket platform CricInGif (https://www.cricingif.com/) (Django, MySQL, amazon-AWS) Backend developed in Django for serving content (mini CMS) for various mobile applications (Django, MySQL, custom remote servers) Backend of sale and purchase application, having features of OLX and eBay. (ROR, MySQL, amazon-AWS) Handling company services on amazon-AWS for all other projects was also my primary responsibly. All server deployed using gunicorn and Nginx, supervisor as process control. Celery with Redis used for a-sync tasks. Cron jobs using Ubuntu crontab. ROR deployment using Nginx and unicorn.2014-15: SAAS project for the schools and colleges in Django framework, a fully featured web application with many features like college-builder. Single click subdomain creation and server setup from the main site.2013-14: Did four projects, which were serving REST API's for mobile applications (Google App Engine, Python, Django, MySQL) Show less

Lahore, Pakistan

 GVS was known as mobile social gaming company, my job was to provide server-side logic for games, a couple of servers were built on java play-framework after returning from Tokyo. But most of the work here was on google-app-engine and all web services were running on google infrastructure. Earlier worked on close source gaming engine build by DeNA and its subsidiary ng-moco, over Node.js. Framework name was Ng-Core. Still available as a trademark of mobage.

Tokyo, Japan

 In late 2012 worked in Tokyo for 3 to 4 months on play-framework (Java), our team did complete 2 projects during that time. First one a REST API for a 3D mobile game, aside from basic it had modules like social, PVP and events. Later worked with team on a HTML5 based complete server-side game (NFL-Machups) which did remain in the Japanese market top grossing apps for long period of time. Tools & Technologies user were Java, play-framework, Mysql, JPA, Hibernate, Amazon AWS, svn, git… Show more  In late 2012 worked in Tokyo for 3 to 4 months on play-framework (Java), our team did complete 2 projects during that time. First one a REST API for a 3D mobile game, aside from basic it had modules like social, PVP and events. Later worked with team on a HTML5 based complete server-side game (NFL-Machups) which did remain in the Japanese market top grossing apps for long period of time. Tools & Technologies user were Java, play-framework, Mysql, JPA, Hibernate, Amazon AWS, svn, git, Eclipse. Show less

Lahore, Pakistan

 I worked as the complete technology developer for the client of TRG (a telemarketing company), responsibilities were to handle Database, generate reports for the clients and automate them, give quick solutions whenever any new requirement comes from client. Automate the process using .NET on server machines to minimize the human effort/dependency and increase performance & accuracy. Tools & Technologies: C#.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server, MS Visual Studios