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- Developed and launched new features in financial markets for airtime, data and voice lending.- Worked on both Clojure and Java applications as different services were developed in both languages. - Also improve the code quality by writing tests for the existing services.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Built and improved an online venue listing and booking platform with full-stack clojure. Features included performant fuzzy searching of venues, uploading of venues, addons and booking management and more.- Collaborated and brainstormed with the founders, working closely with the CTO, product and marketing teams to come up with new features and improve existing ones such as price modifiers, calendar blocks and internal admin management.- Led and took ownership of the host side platform, developing the back-end for the host dashboard, enabling users to quickly upload spaces and manage customer bookings.

- Founding engineer working closely with the CEO in a fast feedback loop, developing the entire system from scratch in 6 months, which helped secure our first paying customer.- Designed the system architecture for scale and rapid growth, which led the company to increase its customer base exponentially within a few months, with revenues increasing by 20% month on month. - Initiated development in Clojure, Clojurescript and Postgres as tech stack for the simplicity of the language and for its superpowers to enable quick iteration.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

- Collaborated on the development of the PLT mobile app as part of the core mobile team, using React Native, Typescript and Redux. The app had 5 million monthly active users, generating 513 million GBP annually.- Wrote Integration and Unit tests to prevent recursion using React Native Testing Library and Jest.Worked within a remote team and used Agile methodologies to achieve the quarterly goals set by the management translating to regional expansion to the Middle East and Africa (MENA).

Islambad, Pakistan

- Senior software engineer at We are Nova , a Tech Startup Fund/Venture Builder. Was the tech lead of notable startups like Menu Guru and Door.- Led the development of a Restaurant Menu mobile and web app for allergy sensitive diners.Spearheaded the conversion of a legacy web app (Extjs based) into React Js which improved the performance of the app by 10x.- Coached and mentored the 20+ engineers in the company to learn and work with the React Js ecosystem.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

- Worked as a software engineer at eMumba, a global software agency, developing solutions for multiple startups and enterprises using Java, Javascript, AngularJS, React, and React Native among others technologies.- Collaborated on a realtime chat application which enabled extended Muslim families in Saudi Arabia to communicate and stay updated with each other, working similarly to a family-tree, using React native, Node Js and Ejabberd XMPP server.- Built a GUI to configure network devices for a large networking company, using AngularJs. - Worked on a web application for car dealerships using Java, Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, and Backbone.