Oct 2024 – Feb 2025 · 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• ➤ Lead a team of 8 engineers, managing 2500 white-label apps across 3 core products, ensuring high-quality delivery and operational excellence.
• ➤ Define and execute the strategy for the entire Apps ecosystem, ensuring it aligns with the company's business goals.
• ➤ Play a key role in shaping product direction and growth strategies, bringing innovation to meet market trends and user needs.
• ➤ Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality apps across mobile, wearables, and future platforms, driving business growth and exceeding user expectations.
• ➤ Oversee the full product lifecycle, from design to deployment, ensuring new features are rolled out smoothly and with minimal disruption.
• ➤ Foster a diverse and inclusive team environment, mentoring engineers and helping them grow professionally.
• ➤ Work closely with product, design, and marketing teams to gather requirements, prioritize work, and ensure smooth communication.
• ➤ Build strong partnerships with external vendors and platforms to ensure app scalability, seamless integration, and competitiveness.
• ➤ Lead the adoption of new technologies and best practices, ensuring apps are built for performance, scalability, and security.
• ➤ Continuously monitor app performance and user feedback, making improvements to maintain a consistent and high-quality user experience.

Sep 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• ➤ Directly managing a cross-functional team of 5 engineers, including mobile and infrastructure engineers, to ensure smooth collaboration and successful project execution.
• ➤ Leading and managing engineering teams to develop and deliver high-quality products and features on time.
• ➤ Defining and executing engineering strategies and roadmaps for cross functional projects.
• ➤ Promote diversity and inclusion within the team and advocate for the needs of the team and its members to senior management.
• ➤ Collaborating with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to gather requirements, define specifications, and prioritize work.
• ➤ Assigning tasks, providing guidance, and mentoring team members to help them grow and develop their skills.
• ➤ Lead and manage a team of engineers in adopting new technologies and best practices to develop innovative and user-friendly mobile apps.
• ➤ Promote diversity and inclusion within the team and advocate for the needs of the team and its members to senior management.
• ➤ Advocating for the importance of mobile apps to the company's leadership team, and helping to make the company an App First Company.
• ➤ Work with other departments to ensure that mobile app development goals are aligned with the company's overall business goals.
• 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
• ➤ Successfully Transited company's strategies to Mobile First Approach.
• ➤ Optimized Mobile Apps and achieved 40% Improvement in Performance.
• ➤ Achieved a 30% increase in sprint velocity, and engineer's satisfaction rate.
• ➤ Successfully Optimized Engineering Processes and reduced Weekly Time Loss
• ➤ Successfully achieved the App Web Parity in less than 3 months.
• ➤ Established an efficient rollout process, ensuring smooth deployment.

Sep 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr

• ➤ Lead a business operations team of 12 members, including frontend, backend, QA, and mobile engineers, ensuring efficient collaboration and delivery across functions.
• ➤ Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for the engineering department.
• ➤ Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.
• ➤ Analyzes and solves engineering-related problems with the assistance of subordinate managers and department personnel.
• ➤ Responsible for interviewing, hiring and training employees in engineering department.
• ➤ Develops evaluation criteria that will serve to measure progress and effectiveness of departmental operations.
• ➤ Review engineering releases for completeness and accuracy, documenting engineering errors and omissions through engineering change requests.
• 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
• ➤Achieved a 45% increase in sprint velocity, reaching 290 story points.
• ➤ Revamped existing tech stack to Nest/NextJS, and Postgresql.
• ➤ Successfully implemented code pipelines and branching strategies.
• ➤ Introduced the TDD Approach, leading to improved product quality.
• ➤ Significantly reduced production bugs by 90 %.
• ➤ Established an efficient rollout process, ensuring smooth deployment.
• ➤ Successfully upskilled engineers, enabling them to obtain certifications.

Jun 2022 – Sep 2022 · 3 mos

• ➤ Line management and personal development of a team of 15 highly skilled developers.
• ➤ Translate business strategy into product strategy.
• ➤ Own the product roadmap and Execute product strategy
• ➤ Manage product profitability and commercial success – own the business case
• ➤ Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues.
• ➤ Capable of understanding and contributing to the technical solution from design through to code level.
• ➤ Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle.
• ➤ Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress.
• ➤ Supporting project resource scheduling and department capacity planning.

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · 9 mos

• ➤ Line management and personal development of a team of 10 highly skilled developers.
• ➤ Managing the delivery of multiple complex simultaneous system development projects from design through to release.
• ➤ Capable of understanding and contributing to the technical solution from design through to code level.
• ➤ Define delivery phases of the project including activities, sub-activities, and milestones ensuring these are documented and used as the basis for the project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting.
• ➤ Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle.
• ➤ Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress.
• ➤ Supporting project resource scheduling and department capacity planning.
• ➤ Contribution to the definition of departmental and systems strategies and progression of any allocated objectives.
• ➤ Ownership, development and management of allocated departmental processes.
• 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 :
• ➤ Optimization of App from 29 Mb to 10 Mb file size.
• ➤ Startup time optimisation to 4 folds
• ➤ App rating from 4.3 ★ to 4.7 ★
• ➤ Initiatives for Fraud Prevention
• ➤ Designed Algorithm to prevent app cloning
• ➤ Participated in Optimization of recommendations

Mar 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan

• ➤ Mobile Applications Development using Kotlin, Java & React Native.
• ➤ Develop and apply advanced technologies, engineering principles, theories and concepts
• ➤ Work cross-functionally with other teams to help make their features fully accessible to all users
• ➤ Design and build applications for the Android and IOS platforms
• ➤ Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• ➤ Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• ➤ Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• ➤ Consistently demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge, ingenuity and creativity

Nov 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

• ➤ Responsible for the design, build, deployment, debug & maintenance of Android applications for Google play.
• ➤ Insured all applications were developed with the SDLC Software Development lifecycle.
• ➤ Worked on location nearby agents with respect to the customer with the ability to navigate to the agent and call the agent location directly by using Google API's.
• ➤ Responsible for designing distinctive screens for tablet optimization and a cleaner layout
• ➤ Responsible for applying android architectures like MVP, MVVM.
• ➤ Programmed with clean, modular, robust code using Java and XML with Android SDK platform.
• ➤ Fixed bugs with code, design patterns and miscellaneous occurrences during projects

Apr 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan · On-site

• Taught Mobile Application Development Course

Jul 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pakistan

• ➤ Responsible for designing, building, debugging and deploying android application.
• ➤ Responsible to solve different structural issues by applying android architectures.
• ➤ Implemented Location Listener to show exact location on Google Maps.
• ➤ Programmed with clean, modular, robust code using Java and XML
• ➤ Used Polylines to draw path on Google Maps with accurate GPS location changes.
• ➤ Developed the database wrapper functions for data staging and modeled the data objects relevant to the mobile application.
• ➤ Responsible for designing distinctive screens for tablet optimization and a cleaner layout.
• ➤ Tested applications on multiple devices to insure compatibility standards.

Sep 2014 – Mar 2015 · 6 mos · Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

• Designed and built android applications for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, focusing on clean, modular code using Java and XML.
• Implemented Location Listener to display precise locations on Google Maps, enhancing user experience.
• Developed database wrapper functions for data staging and optimized screens for tablet usage.
• Tested applications on various devices to ensure compatibility and functionality.

May 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Washington, United States · Remote

• Designed and built android applications, debugging and deploying with clean, modular code.
• Implemented Location Listener for precise location display on Google Maps.
• Developed database wrapper functions for data staging and mobile application data modeling.