Wasif Raza

Engineering Manager

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan10 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

10+ years of experience in software development.
Expertise in cloud technologies like AWS and Azure.
Strong leadership skills in managing technical teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS software engineer with strong cloud and microservices expertise.

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Skills

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaApollo GraphQLArduinoAzure DevOpsComputer ScienceDockerExpress.jsGitHTMLHibernateJIRAJSONJSP

About

A highly adaptable and driven software professional: I have 10+ years of experience in the industry, with extensive exposure to domains such as payments, fintech, SaaS, cloud and microservices. As a software developer, I have worked on a different variety of products and projects targeting to solve problems related to several business domains, and developed them using various technology stacks: thus forming a very diverse skill set. I have hands on experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. I have good understanding of CI/CD, devops and infrastucture management Working in a leadership role, I have served as a Tech Lead on various projects/products where I have functioned within various positions as required which include but are not limited to: system architect, business analyst, scrum master, project manager and people manager. My primary strengths in terms of software development are performance optimizations, load balancing, scalability and microservices architecture. I have experience working remotely and am effective in communication in the English language. I constantly strive to improve myself, always giving my best by working hard with utmost dedication. I am a team player. I see challenges as means for myself to grow and openly accept them. I never shy away from work, and love to learn new things. I always accept the consequences of my actions and take ownership of my work.

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Nivoda

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Remote

Responsibilities: (1) determine tech effort required for projects / task under the umbrella of engineering vertical assigned (2) work with Product manager and other stakeholders in the company (and beyond) to scope out user stories (3) share the project management load from tech leads, remove any blockers that they have so they can function purely as tech owners (4) streamline engineering process within and across vertical (5) optimize the SDLC (6) mentoring and people management (7) code reviews and business reviews.

Technical Lead

Aug 2022 – Jan 2023 · 5 mos · Remote

Responsibilities: (1) coordinate with tech team, product manager and other stakeholders for product development to meet deadlines for delivery (2) work in a developer role and contribute toward the product success by working on coding related tickets (3) work on JIRA to keep track of sprint progress (4) code reviews.

Motive

Senior Backend Engineer

Feb 2022 – Jul 2022 · 5 mos · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

As a back end engineer in the research and development division, it was my job to work with different back end services that are in place for the company's safety product.
As part of the research and development team, my task was to work with other engineers to come up with solutions to our customer's everyday problem scenarios and needs. Our team worked with state of the art technology, and made use of cutting edge techniques to come up with AI and deep learning algorithms to build the company's product.
As part of the AI Infra team, I was working to create an end to end pipeline for the AI product infrastructure's automation.

Gosaas, inc.

2 roles

Project Lead

Jul 2021 – Jan 2022 · 6 mos · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

I was the project lead for EGNC 2.0, which was a re-engineering of the company's existing product.
During this role, my responsibilities were:
1. Product design
2. Requirements gathering.
3. Technology POCs.
4. Leading the technical development.
5. Quality assurance.
6. Bi-weekly meetings with all stakeholders.
7. Sprint planning, JIRA Board management.
8. Team goals, mentoring and check-ins.
9. People management.

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2021 – Jan 2022 · 9 mos · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

During my time in this role, i had the following responsibilities:
1. Requirement's analysis.
2. Software/feature design.
3. Hands on software development.
4. Deployment and CI/CD.
5. Customer demos and training.
6. Software processes improvement.
7. Cost and resource efficiency strategies.
8. Training and mentoring.

Confiz

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer - Team Lead

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

With this role, the responsibilities I had been delegated include (but were not limited to):
People management
1. Setting goals (technical, personal and organizational) for the team.
2. Conducting monthly check-ins and 1-to-1 meetings for goal progress.
3. Performance reviews
4. Approving leaves
Technical Leadership
1. Designing the application with Architect
2. Discuss and decide best suited technology for the projects / applications
3. R&D of frameworks, tools, technologies for project development.
4. Resolving technical issues within team.
SCRUM master:
JIRA board maintenance / ticket tracking.
Spring planning / backlog grooming.
Story pointing, estimating Sprint velocity.
Organizing and leading dev calls / standup calls.

Senior Software Engineer - Team Lead

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019 · 6 mos

Cloud Factory Team - My team worked closely with US based clients to deliver cloud solutions to their software.
Working on Microsoft Azure for cloud infrastructure. Working on multiple tools and technologies according to requirement of projects, which include (but are not limited to) JavaScript, Node Js, React Js, JAVA, Spring boot, Docker etc.
Working in a lead role, as a full stack software developer and cloud engineer, in Sprint/Agile mode.
Other responsibilities include:
1. Team building
2. Participating in Sprint planning / backlog grooming ceremonies.
3. Conducting interviews for company hiring.

Exponento pvt ltd

2 roles

Development Lead

Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2018 – May 2019 · 5 mos

Product Lead, "LeadCrush"
Worked as JAVA (Spring Boot) Software Developer for company's up and coming product "LeadCrush". Also worked with Reactnative for Mobile.
Lead back-end, mobile and web team for product development life cycle
Worked with customers (end users) for product success
Performance improvement and monitoring
JIRA management
Infrastructure management for AWS (RDS, EC2, S3 etc)
Build deployment and delivery on test and production environments
Pre and Post production verification, client support and real-time analysis.

I2c inc.

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 · 9 mos · Headquarters:1300 Island Drive, Suite 105 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 United States

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) team
Development and Maintenance of company's application.
Implementing projects and product enhancements.
Training of new resources.
Test-case planning through end to end planning sheet to reflect overall system change/enhancement test coverage.
Automation test bed preparation and test case designing.
Extensive test case execution Manual + Automated.
Regression testing through automated test suite.
Release production deployment strategy and planning with Configuration management team e.g Fail-over and scalability and roll-out impact identification.
Pre and Post production verification, UAT testing and client support and real-time analysis.
Training the respective stake-holders about the change in product and technical support in case of client queries.
Exposure to all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Development processes.