Jan 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• Planned quarterly roadmaps in collaboration with PMs and senior leadership; defined engineering OKRs aligned with overarching business goals.
• Mentored engineers and junior managers through regular 1:1s and continuous feedback, driving professional growth and improved team performance.
• Shipped multiple learning features that directly contributed to a 20% increase in revenue.
• Increased cache hit ratio from 63% to 98% by implementing a custom caching layer using Cloudflare Workers with on-demand purging, significantly improving application speed and reducing infrastructure load.
• Improved release velocity by shifting from weekly to daily deployments through CI/CD pipeline optimizations and a revised Git branching strategy, resulting in a 300% increase in engineering throughput.
• Streamlined the on-call process by introducing team-specific rotations, leading to a 75% reduction in backlog and a 30% decrease in mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Led the effort to improve developer onboarding by empowering an engineer to create a tailored onboarding plan, resulting in a 30% reduction in mean time to first commit for new team members.
• Acted as a product manager in collaboration with the marketing team to develop an in-product marketing editor with interactive widgets, increasing conversion rates by over 200% and enabling the team to meet their OKRs.
• Co-designed the execution engine at the core of Educative, contributing to new service architecture and enhanced security, unblocking the launch of 30+ new courses.

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · 3 mos

• Contributed to the execution engine by implementing interactive components that enabled data-driven decisions, resulting in a 50% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 40% improvement in execution times.
• Enabled support for custom Dockerfile configurations in the assessment product, unblocking the launch of 10+ new courses and expanding platform flexibility.
• Implemented support for lazy data migrations, minimizing downtime and improving the reliability of production deployments.
• Evaluated container orchestration solutions including Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and LXD for the execution engine, influencing long-term architectural decisions and platform scalability.

Sep 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs

• Built the product and engineering organization from the ground up, scaling the team to ~15 engineers, 2 project managers, and 2 designers.
• Designed and executed the hiring strategy, including a structured screening process and a full-loop interview stage, enabling rapid and high-quality team growth.
• Introduced a 360-degree performance review process, leading to a 60% increase in employee retention by fostering a culture of feedback and growth.
• Implemented agile practices across the organization, resulting in a 60% boost in team productivity and more predictable delivery cycles.
• Delivered multiple client projects with 100% client satisfaction, adapting to diverse tech stacks and business requirements.
• Authored detailed technical design specifications for key projects, ensuring clarity, alignment, and technical excellence across cross-functional teams.

Mar 2018 – Aug 2018 · 5 mos · Pakistan

• Worked on integrating Google Calendar into the platform, and users could add events directly from the platform with this integration.
• Worked on an airplane ticket booking module. We were able to book the tickets for the attendees of the event using API integration. This also included parsing the information from emails and using that information to gauge the user intent.
• Worked on integrating Sendgrid with the platform with which we were able to successfully notify the users about everything via email.

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos

• Worked on the class enrolment module in an LMS product. The module allowed the users to enrol in an offering of a class.
• Worked on Calendar view for the daily schedule of the students.
• Worked on query optimizations for a few APIs and was able to successfully reduce the server compute time by 75% of the APIs.

Jun 2014 – May 2015 · 11 mos · Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• I worked on designing and implementing algorithms for smart grids. The idea was to schedule the load smartly to reduce the bills for the end consumers. The algorithms used queuing theory concepts. Mainly, the algorithms were written in MATLAB with some parts in C++.