Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• ✓ Expanded 23% subscribers growth to 850,000 for Nebula app by refactoring ExoPlayer2 to Media3 APIs.
• ✓ Enhanced Nebula app load times by 40% through code refactoring to Mavericks and Jetpack Startup API.
• ✓ Built the offline downloaded media feature for Nebula's Android app by Media3, WorkManager, and Coroutines.
• ✓ Build new features in Nebula's Android & Android TV app
• ✓ Debug and fix bugs in Nebula's Android & Android TV apps
• ✓ Deliver high-quality polished app to over 500k paying subscribers of Nebula

Mar 2021 – Dec 2021 · 9 mos · Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan · Remote

• ✓ Improved user engagement by 43% through major revamped architecture and design of the CX app.
• ✓ Increased daily orders by 62% through implementing globalizing, enabling Airlift to expand to 3 countries.
• ✓ Led a team of 14 Android engineers to 68000 orders a day to build q-commerce apps for customer, and riders.

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Google Developer Expert (GDE) is a global program to recognize individuals who are experts and thought leaders in one or more Google technologies. These professionals actively contribute and support the developer and startup ecosystems around the world, helping them build and launch highly innovative apps.
• Due to my quality contributions to the community through writing more than 80 articles on Android development, 2 worldwide published books, contributing my code to open source in organizations like Mozilla, Facebook etc and giving lots of public talks in various events and workshops, I have been selected as Pakistan's first GDE in Android by Google.

Mar 2018 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs · Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• ✓ Reduced crash rate by 40% through refactoring a Java codebase to modern MVVM & Kotlin framework.
• ✓ Improved 31% app performance through optimizing Google Maps rendering for Canada's transport apps.
• ✓ Grew user base by 280% with 17 white-label apps for various public transportation systems in Canada.
• ✓ Worked on large-scale enterprise transportation apps like Uber, Google Maps etc.
• ✓ Lead the Android team as Component Lead Refactored an old codebase of 2008 with deprecated libraries and zero architecture into MVVM and Kotlin with Modern Android Development practices
• ✓ Delivered flavor-based customized apps to different clients from the single codebase

Mar 2016 – May 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• AndroidPub is one of the largest publications on Medium (www.medium.com) platform. It has currently more than 50k followers and has been read for over 34 million minutes with 14000 average visitors daily.
• My role as volunteer included:
• Editing and reviewing article submissions
• Planning, scheduling and promoting article publications
• Writing and publishing my own articles

Jul 2015 – Mar 2016 · 8 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

• Retina VR provides you the experience of the most immersive way to visualize places with 360 virtual tours at anytime, anywhere you want.
• http://www.retinavr.co/

Jan 2015 – Apr 2015 · 3 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

• One of the 4 survivors from total 30 enrolled and went through a tough time of 12 weeks to incorporate and start an entirely new startup technology company Approkers Limited.

Nov 2014 – Oct 2015 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Approkers Limited was founded in November 2014 and incorporated in March 2015 in London, UK with an aim to enable advertisers get real audience by rewarding their potential customers’ efforts.
• Approkers Limited is an android advertising platform which enable developers, game publishers to effectively boost their apps/games’ installs or downloads by incentivising android phone users with real rewards such as cash, mobile credits, or special deal offers. Not only developers and publishers, the advertisers can also use this platform to get any custom action from the android phone users such as filling surveys,watching trailer videos, geniune feedback etc. to spread the word about their new products or offerings.
• Approkers Limited is a two-way software as a service platform which provides a paid to advertisers and publishers to reach a real audience of android phone users with an active internet connection by mobile notifications directly on their phones.

May 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

• In this role, I lead a team of around ten developers of android, iOS, Cordova, web, and graphic designers to develop and deliver high-quality polished apps.
• My day-to-day duties include:
• Understanding and analysing clients' requirements for their projects
• Writing scope of work documents to make requirements clear
• Creating detailed wireframes and mockups to define the app UX and screen flow
• Guide graphic designers to convert wireframes into designs by following mobile standards such as Material Design or Flat UI
• Lead and help developers to bring apps into life by following advanced technolgies and latest standards

May 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

• Lead and manage mobile development team to deliver highly polished mobile apps and games.

Sep 2013 – Apr 2014 · 7 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

• Develop new Android, iPhone, and Facebook games using Flash for a SalSoft that focuses on providing software solution services.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Karachi, Pakistan

• AppSoul Studio is group of few engineers of various disciplines focused on creating software and hardware products to provide users easy life and entertainment.

May 2013 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• I co-authored a 300 book "Mastering Android Game Development with Unity" focused for the novice or intermediate Android game developers.
• The book has been published worldwide along with online book stores including:
• Packt Publishing Store
• Amazon.com Store
• Amazon UK Store
• Barnes & Noble Store
• O'Reilly Store
• Safari Books Online Store
• and worldwide printed copy (Hard Edition).

May 2013 – Jan 2014 · 8 mos

• I authored an android book "Learning Android Intents" for novice and intermediate android developers. Learning Android Intents, focuses on using intents to make the best use of various features of Android platforms. It is ideal for developers who want to understand the backbone and the domain of Android intents, its power, and the need of it inside an Android application. Practical, in-depth examples are used throughout the book to help understand the key concepts of using intents.
• The book has been published worldwide along with online book stores including:
• Packt Publishing Store
• Amazon.com Store
• Amazon UK Store
• Barnes & Noble Store
• O'Reilly Store
• Safari Books Online Store
• and worldwide printed copy (Hard Edition).

Dec 2012 – Oct 2013 · 10 mos · Karachi

• I work in Games Department at Folio3, where we develop games for mobile and Facebook.
• Technologies I work on:
• Unity3D
• Flash
• Android Development

Oct 2012 – Feb 2013 · 4 mos · Karachi, Pakistan

• I do freelancing as part time job. I did a few projects in this short time. I worked on Android Development, Flash Intro Designing, and Logos and Posters in Photoshop.
• Following is one of the project, which got published on Google Play.
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamyguru.cardlust&hl=en

Mar 2012 – Sep 2012 · 6 mos · Islamabad

• We, at White Rabbit Studios, develop social games like FarmVille for Facebook.
• BabyWorld (http://apps.facebook.com/babyworldgame)

Feb 2011 – Sep 2011 · 7 mos

• Develop Android Applications

Sep 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Analysis and code implementation in C/C++, OpenGL, Qt Toolkit.
• 3D Modeling in 3D Studio Max

Jan 2009 – Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Managing Project, Solving Technical Problems, Delivering Lectures, Conducting Labs, Checking Quizzes, Assignments and so on.

Nov 2008 – Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• I was an engineering student at NUST SEECS in discipline of Information and Communication System Engineering. After 1 years, I also started becoming Teacher Assistant, and I remained Teacher Assistant (TA) for 3 years at NUST teaching and assisting teachers in various programming subjects like Fundamentals of Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms and so on. I also delivered lectures as TA on different topics including Inside A Game, Game Development using Console Graphics, Game Development using OpenGL, What Black Console Can Do, Qt Toolkit in Visual Studio 2008. I also used to guide and help my students through their projects and used to motivate them to do something bigger and better. After 2 years, I also joined SMART Research Lab, where I was Research Assistant. While at SMART, I conducted Android workshops, participated in Mobily Competition. In my final year at NUST, I developed a 3D Strategy Game for Android tablets, and participated in different competitions and won different positions including 3D Game Development Competition winner.