Worked as the founding engineer an EdTech startup in the South Asian market. Responsible for all technical decisions including team building, software architecture and engineering management.- Saved the company over 2.5 million PKR in yearly losses by optimizing the cloud infrastructure, making the company profitable.- Optimized a file upload API by implementing streaming uploads resulting in concurrent file uploads of over 50 gigabytes on a single server.- Achieved 99.95% uptime on our core user-facing application by effectively monitoring and administering the cloud infrastructure.Leveraged Knowledge in PHP, Moodle, WordPress, Node.js, Vue.js, AWS Media technologies, Linux, Engineering Management

- Enabled rapid dashboard development by building a UI generation tool using JSON Schema, Vue.js and Node.js resulting in faster development of a custom configuration management system. - Enabled deeper insights into user behaviour by building a business intelligence dashboard using SQL, Postgres and Metabase. - Improved asynchronous background tasks by using dedicated worker server deployments resulting in uninterrupted continuous task processing at scale.

Worked with Arbisoft to assist in solution architecture and team management for their German clients.- Successfully managed client relationships as the engineering manager, resulting in an NPS score of 100 from the client and expansion of the engineering team.- Successfully delivered a custom video encoding MVP in 40 days by effectively managing the engineering team and project scope. - Gave two talks on effectively architecting greenfield projects to the Pakistani and German engineering divisions.Leveraged Knowledge in JavaScript, Video encoding, Python, SQL, React, Vue.js, Node.js, Engineering Management, Jest, Kubernetes, SQL Server, Cypress

►FRONT-END: - Designed and developed API clients and consumers in GraphQL and Apollo. - Implemented designs and components using React and styled-components.►BACK-END: - Designed and developed GraphQL based APIs using Node.js, Apollo-server and PostgreSQL.►DEV OPS: - Developed a proof-of-concept custom CLI for development environments of our engineers.

►FRONT-END DEV: - Developed pure client-side applications using React.js, Redux - Configured build scripts using Webpack and Gulp.js - Extended the Open edX platform using Backbone.js, jQuery and Mako templates - Implemented socket.io based client-side apps to interact with Node.js based back-ends►BACK-END DEV: - Developed and configured forum software using Node.js, Express.js, Benchpress.js and NodeBB - Extended and customized the Open edX platform using Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, DTL and Mako templates - Worked with both relational and non-relational database back-ends such as SQLite, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis►DEV OPS: - Configured Open edX and Node.js based development environments using Vagrant and Virtualbox - Assisted the DevOps team in deploying Node.js based applications to AWS based production servers - Wrote management commands to backup production databases and automate email delivery using Django management commands, MailChimp and Mandrill - Configured custom Vagrant based development environments to streamline onboarding of new engineers►OPEN-SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS: - Fixed a bug in NodeBB that enabled a user to upvote his own post - Updated an outdated plugin in NodeBB to work with the latest version - Released a custom version of a NodeBB plugin that enabled users to subscribe and receive notifications/emails for any forum category they subscribed to

Education startup funded by Stanford University that teaches professional skills to students and corporations.