Saif Ali Tharani

Co-Founder

Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia9 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded a successful retail management solution.
Scaled operations to 200+ merchants across 5 countries.
Led product development with a user-centric approach.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong e-commerce and education experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyTeam LeadershipAmazon Fba ConsultingE-commerce StrategySoftware DevelopmentDatabase ManagementEducationBusiness Intelligence

Other Skills

Account ManagementAgile MethodologyAmazon EBCAmazon Listing Creation and OptimizationAmazon PPCAmazon Seller CentralAmazon SourcingClient Requirement GatheringCloud-based SolutionsCurriculum DevelopmentDashboard DesignData AutomationFinancial AnalysisFinancial PlanningFull Stack Development

About

Asaan Retail's mission is to equip the retailers with an all-in-one integrated multichannel commerce business management solution that connects all the different parts of their retail business to save time and allow efficient growth by centralizing their inventory, fulfillment, and accounting.

Experience

Asaan retail

Co-Founder & CPO

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Pakistan

As Co-Founder and CPO at Asaan Retail, I lead the development and implementation of our product strategy, ensuring we deliver innovative, efficient, and user-centric solutions that address the needs of e-commerce and retail businesses. My role involves a blend of high-level strategy and hands-on involvement in product design, engineering, and user experience.
Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
▪ Product Vision & Strategy: Defined and executed the product vision, aligning it with the company’s mission to streamline retail operations and reduce manual errors.
▪ Team Leadership: Built and led a cross-functional product team, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages innovation and quality.
▪ User-Centric Design: Ensured a customer-first approach in all product development, resulting in features that directly address user pain points and drive higher user adoption.
▪ Market Analysis & Competitive Positioning: Conducted continuous market research to refine our product roadmap, keeping Asaan Retail competitive and aligned with industry trends.
▪ Operational Growth: Played a critical role in scaling Asaan Retail to 200+ merchants across 5 countries, achieving $215K in ARR with 50% Quarter-on-Quarter growth.
▪ Partnerships & Integrations: Led partnerships with top e-commerce platforms and courier partners, ensuring Asaan Retail seamlessly fits into diverse retail environments.
This role fuels my passion for innovation and commitment to empowering retailers with the tech muscles they need to succeed in an ever-evolving market.
Visit: https://asaanretail.io to learn more.
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Product Vision & StrategyTeam LeadershipUser-Centric DesignMarket Analysis & Competitive PositioningOperational GrowthPartnerships & Integrations+1

Piaic

Faculty Member

Jul 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Working alongside other faculty members to teach Internet of Things (IoT) specialization.
▪ Mission of PIAIC is to reshape the Pakistan by revolutionizing education, business and research by adopting latest cutting-edge technologies. The aim of this initiative is to make Pakistan the global hub of 4th Industrial revolution in domains of IoT, block chain, artificial intelligence, edge computing, cloud native computing.
▪ IoT specialization aims to teach the state-of-the-art stack of technologies needed to develop an IoT solution. It involves components such as: Embedded programming in Rust, Micro Services Development for IoT Edge and IoT Cloud, Voice Computing, etc.
▪ Successfully taught the following modules:
1. Fundamentals of Rust Programming Language
2. Embedded Rust and Real-time Systems Programming
to more than 500 students.

TeachingCurriculum DevelopmentEducation

Amazon fba private label retailer

Amazon FBA Private Label Consultant

Jun 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos · Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

▪ Strategy and Business Plan Development
▪ Ungating Restricted Product Categories on Amazon
▪ Quality Keyword, Product, and Niche Analysis
▪ Complete Keyword Enriched Listing Creation and Optimization (Title, Bullet Points, Description, Back-End Keyword Optimization, EBC/A+ Content)
▪ Supplier Sourcing
▪ Amazon Sponsored Ads (PPC), Driving External Traffic to Amazon
▪ Account/Portfolio Management and Customer Service
▪ Inventory Management
▪ Budget Planning
▪ Measure and Report Performance against business objectives and goals (ROI and KPIs)
▪ FBA Private Label Product Hunting

Strategy DevelopmentKeyword AnalysisListing OptimizationSupplier SourcingAccount ManagementInventory Management+2

Techlogix

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

I worked on the product: Techlogix Sales & Distribution Solution (TMX-SD)
▪ Worked as full stack developer on cloud-based software product that applies the power of Mobility to streamline Secondary Sales and Distribution operations. The product serves around 30 clients that includes renowned sales and distribution companies in Pakistan, Dubai and Tanzania.
▪ Conceptualized, designed, and developed core features of the native Android application including UI, core-functionality and third-party SDKs.
▪ Managed the database architecture: Wrote optimized SQL queries, stored procedures and jobs.
▪ Worked on all the phases of the product from requirement gathering, development and implementing the product for the clients.
▪ Active participation in team meetings, daily scrums and other rituals of agile software development methodology.
Tools and Technologies: Android Studio, .NET Web API, SQL Server, Oracle and Microsoft Azure.
Apart from that, I also worked on: Techlogix Digital Lending Platform Solution (TMX-DLP)
▪ Cloud-based mobility product which automates the current account opening and loan initiation process in banks.
▪ Worked as part of the implementation team to gather the requirements from the client, configuring the product based on the need of client, debugging and providing immediate solution.
▪ Solution reduced the bank’s operational costs and business process cycle drastically.
Tools and Technologies: Android Studio, .NET Web API, SQL Server

Full Stack DevelopmentDatabase ManagementAgile MethodologySoftware Development

Systems limited

Business Intelligence Intern

Jul 2017 – Jan 2018 · 6 mos

Worked alongside Business Intelligence team on Government of Sindh’s Reform Support Unit (RSU) project.
▪ Analysed and formulated KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) through interviews and observations which could accurately depict the true picture of Interior Sindh schools
▪ Designed dashboards which summarized different KPIs at every level (District, Tehsil and UC). Dashboards get updated in real time after a monitoring administrator (MA) inspects a school.
▪ This project successfully allowed for better monitoring of more than 40000 schools, which was never implemented before.
Worked alongside Business Intelligence (BI) team on Khaadi’s BI project.
▪ Automated the procedure of converting spreadsheet data into comma separated file (CSV), which then incorporated Microsoft Azure’s utility, Bulk Copy Program (BCP) to export data on the Azure SQL database.
▪ Developed Java application that crawled Islamic website to scrape data in order to track lunar historic and future dates for analytics via Microsoft Power BI.

KPI AnalysisDashboard DesignData AutomationBusiness Intelligence

Lahore university of management sciences

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Lahore, Pakistan

Subject: Computer and Problem Solving (CS100).
▪ Conducted tutorials and office hours for the class of 120 students.
▪ Supervised 10 group semester projects on developing different computer applications.

TeachingProject SupervisionEducation