Experience
Work, Internship and Volunteership
I am working as a Senior Software Engineer as a Full Stack Developer, Designer and a Software Architect. Its been 3 years of dedication that has made me capable of building solutions at scale. I am in Love with building research driven innovative solutions from scratch. Having the urge of giving back to people I teach students in my freetime, and raise funds for the deserving lads. From personally conducting hackathons to mentoring students as a Developer Advocate I have built empowering tech communities benefitting thousands of people across Pakistan.
- Work
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2022 - Dec 2023
Islamabad / Remote
- Responsible for developing full-stack solutions in MERN stack, NextJs and AWS ecosystem. - Communicating with clients for scrum support and building high scaled projects. - Worked collaboratively with QAs, development, and business groups to complete comprehensive testing on major software release. - Consistently recognized for excellent problem solving and analytical skills by stakeholders.
Software and Machine Learning Engineer
June 2021 - August 2021
Remote Work
- Created workflows triggers using React ecosystem. Applied cost-benefit analysis to obtain security and compliance tests helping the product to scale 20% faster. - Performed an in-depth comparison using fit-gap analysis between functional and non-functional requirements of building workflows, which saved 4 months of development time. - Implemented CI/CD using GitHub Actions on Azure. - Applied DevOps cycle (trigger-build-production) pipelining and unit testing using ARM configuration. - Anticipated in different domains which involved feeding and engineering data to control virtual instances. - Applied serverless use cases to build the MVP. - Main build tools involved adobe XD, AI, Azure, GCP, MERN, and Redux.
Open Source Developer
June 2020 - Aug 2020
Remote Work
Open Source project aimed to connect patients with doctors helping people psychologically by giving them advice. Mainly contributed to the project over MERN as the web stack. Resolved the issues of setting up the express server, contact us rendering, and form validation. I was involved in the team to help them build an optimized architecture. Core benefit: Reaching remote people deprived of good medical facilities.
- Internships
Machine Learning Research Intern
April 2020 - September 2020
SEECS, NUST
Worked on project of converting 2D image into 3D using the help of Machine Learning. The project covered two main aspects: (1) To enuemerate normal prediction of a 2D image. (2) Using ML techniques to draw coordinates on regions and locations. I have closely worked with deep learning models in combination with statistical methods to create solution. The project had the following scope: (a) Object Visualization for Uban Cities. (b) Generating/evaluating building hypothesis
Software Quality Assurance Intern
August 2020 - September 2020
Work From Home
Worked as a Software Quality Assurance Intern for an Enterprise software developed by Afiniti with a diverse group of 70+ students from multinational backgrounds. The work helped me build strong analytical approach. The agile feedbacks and suggestions improved the product to a greater extent. Ultimately, I gained keen knowledge of working in big corporates and been able to blend into their working environments.
Graphic Designer Intern
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
TIC, NUST
Mainly aimed to create face models for a photo editing mobile app using AI. The face features were designed using photoshop and illustrator. Used scripting for automation of rendering. The automation reduced the office overhead and labour by 60%. The initial boost helped the app to attain 1M+ downloads in the play store within a year. So far Vyro has more than 4 apps in play store with approximately 32M+ downloads.
Digital Marketing Intern
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Murree Road, Rawalpindi
Analyzed data from 25000+ monthly active users and used outputs to guide marketing and product strategies. Increased average online engagement time by 2x, 25% decrease in drop off rate, and 3x shares on social media.
- Volunteerships
Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador
Aug 2020 - June 2022
NUST, Islamabad
Microsoft Student Ambassador is a program for university students to lead the awareness and use of Cloud especially Azure tools in the development of their projects and startups. Under this program, I have organised hands on workshops of GitHub and seminars to teach Cloud Computing concepts to students.
Developer Student Club Lead - NUST
July 2020 - July 2021
NUST, Islamabad
2nd ever lead from NUST and Pakistani DSC Chapter. Lead the club for one of the most prestigious universities in Pakistan. Conducted tonnes of events in order to make student the next big assests in the market. The program provides an ecosystem that encourages sharing of knowledge, learning and community building using the power of Google and its resources. Finally, it gives the exposure of mentoring people to become the next Google Developer Expert and preserving the chain.
AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador
Apr 2020 - May 2021
NUST, Islamabad
Enabling students to learn the cloud based cooporate technology usage using AWS. Made more than 50 students a part of AWS Educate program. Conducted workshops and Community Day event powered by AWS in Pakistan. Founded AWS community of Pakistan, the first of its kind that helps more than 1K students on a weekly basis to learn AWS.
Global Leader
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
NUST, Islamabad
Leadership development program presented by the United Nations Academic Impact and MCN. Only 6% of campuses in 16 nations selected based on the calibre of applications. Over the semester, led the "Street School" project, helping 56 children ages 4-11 gain access to mentorship and 86% improved their lifestyle. Engaged in webinars with Katie Strock, Gates Foundation, Eric Knee, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Sam Vaghar. Mainly targeted SDG# 3: Good Health and Well Being, SDG#4: Quality Education, SDG#5: Gender Equality. Engaged in sessions to cultivate core values of empathy, humility, inclusion in leadership and social impact. Honed skills including how to write a budget and set and meet strategic goals. Helped build a community of practice - sharing best practices across organizations. Later our project was listed among the top 5 projects of the fellowship program. Collaborated with other non-profit organizations to help maximum people from back of areas to come up. Later, I was selected as the program recruiter which enabled me to select the future social entrepreneuers on the basis of merit. Finally, I was offered to become the program mentor for my university chapter.
Developer Program Member
October 2020 - PRESENT
Work From Home
I am actively contributing to many opensource projects. I have contributed to projects of organisations like StudentCodeIn, Hacktoberfest, flutter mobile apps, and MERN applications. These contributions include bug fixes, feature requests and formulating proper documentation for a project.
Executive Committee Member
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
NUST, Islamabad
Lead Social Responsibility program by NIMUN. Collaborated NIMUN with MCN in order to attain the common goal of making a difference in the lives of the people in need. Strived for: SDG# 3: Good Health and Well Being – Lives Impacted 20+. SDG#4: Quality Education – Lives Impacted 50+. SDG#5: Gender Equality – Lives Impacted 30+. SDG#12 Responsible Consumption and Production – Lives Impacted 100+.
Team Lead Social Media Marketing
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
SEECS, NUST, Islamabad
Conducted more than 20 events throughout the tenure including HackACM, Github workshops, and exclusive programming events. Engaged more than 100K people across all social media handles of ACM-NUST. Headed major events like: Redbulll University Outreach, Media Week, Facebook Developer's Workshop, MLH Local Hack Day