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Zahir Koradia

CTO

United Kingdom17 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable technology solutions.
  • Proven track record in team leadership and development.
  • Strong background in software architecture and engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Software Engineering expert with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentTeam LeadershipInfrastructure EngineeringMobile Applications

Other Skills

DjangoDjango Rest FrameworkFlaskKubernetesDockerZipkinPrometheusGrafanaAWSFabricJenkinsPostgresS3RedisAngular JS 1.x

About

I am a Computer Science professional with a passion for writing and managing beautiful code, and building simple technology solutions to complex problems.

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs
Current Experience

Up learn

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Head Of Engineering

Jun 2019Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Gocardless

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2018May 2019 · 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

Lantum

2 roles

Lead Engineer

Jan 2018Sep 2018 · 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Manage the technology team of 8
  • Lead architecture definition and make design decisions taking long term view of the the product
  • Define platform provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance strategies
  • Help define product processes (agile) and development automation
  • Recruitment, training, and professional growth of the technology team
  • Key Achievements
  • Doubled the technology team from 4 to 8 in first 2 months of taking up the role
  • Trained several team members on writing maintainable code and building architectures that stand the test of time.
  • Started team bonding and knowledge exchange activities within the technology team
  • Started monthly meetings for tech, product, and design teams to interact
  • Raised Net Promoter Score in the tech team from 0 to 100 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter)
DjangoDjango Rest FrameworkFlaskKubernetesDockerZipkin+13

Senior Software Engineer

May 2017Dec 2017 · 7 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Part of the two member senior tech team that makes all architecture, processes, and other technology decisions.
  • Lead the billing squad through requirements analysis, feature ideation, design and development
  • Lead the improvement of architecture design
  • Lead recruitment and training of new team members
  • Key Achievements
  • Part of two member team that migrated the infrastructure from Rancher to Kubernetes
  • Built two microservices from scratch introducing new design patterns to the architecture
  • Helped build the continuous delivery pipeline for microservices
  • Technologies used
  • Django, Django Rest Framework, Flask
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Zipkin, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, Fabric, Jenkins
  • Postgres, S3, Redis
  • Angular JS 1.x, HTML, CSS
DjangoTastypieCeleryRabbitMQElasticsearchPostgreSQL+7

Encyclokidia ltd.

CTO

Jan 2015May 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Responsible for the complete technology stack and infrastructure
  • Manage technology team to deliver mobile app and web app
  • Define product development processes
  • Liaison with the other teams on feature UI/UX ideation and scoping
  • Key Achievements
  • Single handedly built www.encyclokidia.com. Built tools and processes to deploy multiple times a week.
  • Grew the technology team to 5 people and data team to 4 people
  • Ran the entire company for 2 months
  • Built search engine to enable complex searching and filtering
  • Optimised search api to reduce response time by 80%
  • Technologies Used
  • Django, Tastypie, Celery, RabbitMQ
  • Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL
  • AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3
  • Fabric, Gulp
DjangoTastypieCeleryRabbitMQElasticsearchPostgreSQL+7

Gram vaani community media

2 roles

CTO

Promoted

Oct 2011Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Roles and responsibilities:
  • Manage a team of 8 people (3 Tech Support, 5 Developers including me)
  • Design and development of Mobile Vaani (a voice based social network)
  • Co-design social development projects in coordination with charities
  • Key Achievements:
  • Architected statistics, advertisement, and billing infrastructure of Mobile Vaani
  • Defined processes for code review, source control, server upgrades, and team communication
  • Analyzed user behaviour to understand content preferences for building a recommender system
  • Languages and Technologies:
  • Python-Django, Tastypie, South, Celery
  • AngularJS, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3
  • MySQL, RabbitMQ, Git, Gerrit
  • Asterisk, Freeswitch
  • Java, C++
  • Nagios, Asana
Python-DjangoTastypieSouthCeleryAngularJSJavascript+10

Software Developer

Feb 2009Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • As lead developer, I worked on design and development of GRINS automation system for community radio. I was a part of a 3 member team that conducted requirements analysis, did system and UI design, and deveoped and piloted GRINS. I also conducted engineering research to optimize GRINS operation on single board computers. Languages and technologies that I worked on include Java, Perl, Asterisk, MySQL, and Lucene.
JavaPerlAsteriskMySQLLuceneSoftware Development

Persistent systems

Member Of Technical Staff

Jun 2004Dec 2004 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

  • I worked primarily on development of a website using client and server side Javascript.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

PhD — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2014

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

MTech — Computer Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Maharashtra Institute of Technology

B.E. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2004

North Maharashtra University

BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2002

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