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• Software Engineering Manager, 

  May, 2015 - Present

  Car classifieds website for connecting sellers and buyers in UAE

  • Design and development of Dubicars website, dashboards, apps and CRM software for car dealerships

  • Moved the search functionality to Elasticsearch

  • Introduced TDD and developed automated tests covering 90% of the application code

  • Integrations with the partners apps.

  • Led the automation and migration of our backend infrastructure to Kubernetes

  • Responsible for infrstructure of our backend systems ensuring it's availability

  • Establish a new tech support office in Pakistan and built a team of 5

  • Maintained the software quality by code and design reviews

  • Launched CRM for car dealerships adopted by 95% of Dubicars clients

  • PHP, Python, Mysql, PostgresSql, TDD, CI/CD, AWS, Elasticsearch, VueJs, IAAC, Docker, Kubernetes

• Software Engineer, 

  Jul, 2014 - Apr, 20159 months

  Home cleaning startup operating in dozen countries in Europe

  • Integration with the payment provider for payouts - Ayden

  • Enhancements on the core matching algorithm between customers and service providers

  • PHP, MongoDB, Phalcon, AWS

• Senior Software Engineer, 

  Mar, 2012 - Apr, 20142 years 1 month

  Namshi.com is the largest online shopping destination for women, men and kids in the Middle East

  • Integration with the payment gateway - innovate payments

  • Transition from monolith to service oriented architecture

  • Led a small team to move product catalog and search to its own service

  • PHP, Mysql, Symfony 2, Zend, Yii, Angular Js, Solr, Redis, Memcached, AWS, Docker

• Software Engineer, 

  Sep, 2009 - Mar, 20122 years 6 months

  A financial news portal covering GCC

  • Developed profile module where users can share stories and follow other users similar to Twitter

  • Developed and launched company news portal www.akhbaar24.com

  • C#.net, SQL Server, PHP, Mysql, WordPress, AWS

• Software Engineer, 

  Jul, 2007 - Jul, 20081 year

  A privately held company provider of ICT services and solutions

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