Dec 2022 – Jun 2023 · 6 mos

• ↳ Continued managing a team of 5 developers after moving to a new company.
• ↳ Researched the stock market domain and introduced new technologies to improve systems.
• ↳ Guided and trained new developers to speed up their onboarding and effectiveness.
• ↳ Worked on backend infrastructure to keep the platform stable and cost efficient.

Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

• ↳ Managed a team of 5 developers, including WordPress, frontend, and junior developers.
• ↳ Optimized cloud infrastructure and reduced costs by 50% while keeping uptime at 100%.
• ↳ Conducted over 50 interviews to hire backend developers and achieved a 70% success rate.
• ↳ Trained new hires in the stock market domain with company leadership.
• ↳ Shifted the entire backend to Django REST Framework and managed backend systems.
• ↳ Wrote API documentation for frontend developers and guided them in integrating APIs into the platform.

Sep 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• ↳ Learned the stock market domain under the guidance of company heads.
• ↳ Built a Django-based stock screener using Django templates that provided real-time market insights.
• ↳ Scraped data from Yahoo Finance and other finance sites, cleaned it, and stored it.
• ↳ Displayed processed data in the screener for easier analysis.
• ↳ Set up schedulers on AWS servers so scripts ran automatically and kept data updated.
• ↳ Scaled infrastructure across AWS and Digital Ocean, reducing downtime from 75% to 25%.
• ↳ Automated workflows for content teams, cutting down repetitive manual work.

Dec 2022 – Nov 2023 · 11 mos · Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan · Hybrid

• ↳ Learned serverless systems and gained hands-on experience with GCP.
• ↳ Built and managed data pipelines, ETL processes, and scheduling with Apache Airflow.
• ↳ Worked directly with clients on multiple projects without needing top management.
• ↳ Created a job listing project that scraped millions of jobs from LinkedIn, Monster, and Indeed, stored them, and built a dashboard to show insights.
• ↳ Applied advanced techniques in data engineering to improve accuracy and reliability.
• ↳ Learned React and built an Instagram clone as a side project to strengthen frontend skills.
• ↳ Practiced BDD and TDD with over 90%+ code coverage across projects.
• ↳ Interviewed and hired more than 10 engineers and trained them to become effective contributors.

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Pakistan · Remote

• ↳ Helped clients launch private projects and public MVPs for the stock market based on their strategies.
• ↳ Built fast systems and replicas of trading strategies using both intraday and end-of-day data.
• ↳ Worked with clients across the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Nepal, India, and Saudi Arabia.
• ↳ Developed a real-time Saudi Exchange chatbot using OpenAI APIs with 100 percent uptime.
• ↳ Automated transcription of 5TB of video courses into structured datasets with advanced data engineering techniques.
• ↳ Designed AWS Glue pipelines to scale ETL processes for business and financial data.
• ↳ Built stock forecasting systems using machine learning libraries, including FBProphet.

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo · Bahria Phase &, Rawalpindi · On-site

• ↳ Delivered responsive user interface with Bootstrap for African client
• ↳ Created graphics and visuals with Photoshop to improve brand presentation