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Usman Khalid

CEO

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia19 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20 years of experience leading engineering teams.
  • Expert in full-stack development across multiple technologies.
  • Proven track record in delivering scalable software solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with expertise in SaaS and Gaming industries.

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AJAXAmazon EC2AndroidAngularJSGitHibernateJIRAJSONJSPJavaJavaScriptMemcachedMobile ApplicationsMobile GamesMySQL

About

A seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience leading high performance engineering teams. I mostly work full-stack - I'm a polyglot who is well-versed with a multitude of frontend and backend tools & technologies. I have experience working with startups as well as multinational tech giants.

Experience

Stripe

Senior Manager

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineering Manager

Dec 2019Sep 2025 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Greater Sydney Area

Atlassian

Engineering Manager

Dec 2016Dec 2019 · 3 yrs · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • I lead the Confluence Enterprise and Data Center teams

Favorite medium

Senior Team Lead

Oct 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • My responsibilities include designing and architecting software solutions for several high profile clients, in addition to supporting and developing many in-house products and tools. I have successfully delivered robust, scalable and secure turn-key software solutions for many global clients. I mostly work full stack on most of the products. I am well versed with a multitude of server-side and client-side technologies. Also, part of my responsibilities include mentoring a team of engineers to help them overcome technical challenges and become a good fit for the organization.

Dena

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2012Dec 2012 · 11 mos · Tokyo, Japan

  • Building highly scalable social games for Japanese Feature phone and World-wide Smart phone market.

Gameview studios pvt ltd

Principal Engineer / Technical Lead

Apr 2010Sep 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • GameView Studios, former subsidiary of DeNA, Japan
  • I work on building scalable, secure and robust social games and applications for the iPhone and Android platforms, many of which have been ranked in the top 5 on app store and google & amazon android market.
  • Role & Responsibilities: Architecting & implementing social games - designing server & client architecture of these games and working with a team of talented engineers & operational staff to maintain and scale them. Designing user acquisition and retention plans by integrating and analysing key performance indicators, including but not limited to ARPU, DAU etc.
  • Some of the titles that I have worked on in the recent past:
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.happymage.google.how
  • https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nfl-matchups/id579387796?mt=8
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobage.ww.a1200.NFL_CARD_Android
  • https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobage.ww.a607.wondercove_Android
  • http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tap-mall/id391616681?mt=8
  • Here are some of the tools, technologies & platforms that I usually work with
  • Java stack (Play framework, Spring, Struts, Hibernate), Perl, PHP, C/C++, MySQL, Objective-C & iOS, Android, ngCore, Cocoa, Cocos2d, Box2d, Flurry, Tap Joy, SQL Lite, Zwoptex, Amazon EC2, Linux (ubuntu), Google App Engine.

Offerpal media

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2007Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Offerpal Media, Inc - http://www.offerpalmedia.com/
  • Offerpal Media is the leading social media monetization platform for social applications, online games, virtual worlds, mobile apps, and social publishers. The Offerpal virtual currency solution enables game developers and social publishers to monetize, analyze, and optimize their virtual economies while also growing their distribution. Our full-service payment platform has enabled more than 100 million consumers to purchase virtual currency through direct payment options such as credit cards, micro-transactions, and mobile billing, or earn it by taking part in any of our 4,000+ targeted advertising offers. Offerpal’s turnkey monetization platform uses a sophisticated optimization engine and proprietary algorithms to generate publisher revenues at a network-wide average of $80 per day for every 1,000 Daily Active Users.
  • I was part of the team that developed a monetization platform which integrates within social networks (like facebook, myspace, bebo, hi5 etc) to facilitate the purchase of virtual credit throughout various applications. The platform hosted integrations with 25+ mobile and payment gateways including the prominent ones like PayPal, Amazon, Zong, Rixty, ClickAndBuy, Dao pay. The major challenges were scalability and security of the application.
  • Related tools & technologies: J2SEE, Struts, Hibernate, Freemarker, Spring, JSP/Servlets, Memcache.

Cambridge docs

Software Engineer

Aug 2006Jan 2007 · 5 mos

Techlogix

R&D Engineer

May 2005Sep 2005 · 4 mos

Education

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Master of Science (MS) — Theoretical Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2010

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

Bachelor of Science (BS) — Computer Science

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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