Experience

mPulse

• United States
• Technology, Information and Media
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • May 2021 - Present



Capital One

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Engineering Manager

  • May 2019 - Jul 2021



FactSet

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Dec 2011 - Mar 2019

  Lead Engineer and Manager of an agile team focused on news document retrieval systems and filing data delivery services. My team is responsible for News Retrieval Backend Infrstructure and Developing APIs to support entire FactSet Workstation, Web, Mobile and API platforms. Our system handles millions of requests a day, built on a polyglot services. Over these years at FactSet, ▪ Architect and Developed FactSet News Delivery for APAC, Europe and Austalia Regions which helped FactSet expand and grow clients in these regions ▪ Lead development of Fillings Wizard Application which improved Junior bankers workflow ▪ Spearheaded news retrieval services/api and document conversion services with the vision of performance improvement and scale the system to handle millions of requests a day ▪ Implemented a multithreaded insertion process that handle near realtime news stories ingestion of over 100 feeds ▪ Optimized existing database schema, improve the insertion speed and optimize queries which results in search results performance increase up to 25% ▪ Wrote a Web based database comparison tool that helps in testing different production sites data ▪ Wrote several bash scripts and developed different web based tool to help detecting data inconsistencies, bug fixing and testing



Gsm Nation LLC

• NewHaven, Connecticut

• Head of Technology

  • Sep 2010 - Dec 2011

  GSM Nation is a wireless retail and services company. Through its e-commerce platform the company sells a wide selection of smartphones and tablets. ▪ Spearheaded the IT department for this newly started company. ▪ As a head of technology, I managed the team of technologists to help grow company's E-Commerce Platform (Magento) built on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) Stack. ▪ Pitched the idea of Scan, Store and Manage Inventory Module in our E-Commerce Admin Portal to CEO, developed it which marginally reduce the manual operations. ▪ Developed Credit Card Document Verification Uploading Portal to increase the efficiency of Custom Support Staff. ▪ Lead the development of Savings-Calculator, industry recognized tool to help save money on mobile bills. ▪ Created ROM (return of merchandise) module to automate customer product returns. ▪ Worked with third party companies (FedEx, Affiliate Marketing etc) to integrate their APIs into our e-commerce Platform. ▪ Analyzed Company's online presence, optimized google product search and worked with business analysts to create search engine friendly product descriptions. ▪ Revamped product catalog page and wrote advance product finder tool to help. ▪ Managed company's web hosting platform, cost evaluation and future growth of the website. ▪ Helped accelerate company's sale from $8 Million to $40 Million in one year by providing state of the art technological platform. ▪ Nominated for 2011 Finalists: America's Best Young Enterpreneurs Finalists: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/slideshows/20110915/2011-finalists-america-s-best-young-entrepreneurs#slide13



University of Bridgeport

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Assistant

  • Aug 2010 - May 2011

  Assisted professor for the course of Object Oriented Programming with C++ and delivered short lectures on object oriented programming principles to graduate students, conducted lab sessions & course project demonstration and graded students assignments. Assisted professor for the course of Object Oriented Programming with C++ and delivered short lectures on object oriented programming principles to graduate students, conducted lab sessions & course project demonstration and graded students assignments.



PixSense

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2009

  Started as a freshman software engineer, promoted to senior software engineer, lead a team of developers and honored Must Clone Employee Award. Worked on Billing Framework, Publishing Framework and Protocol Handlers for PixSense SAN (Social Application Network) Platform having customer base of more than 10 million using J2EE (Servlets, Struts, Velocity, DWR) & PHP on distributed linux server environment with MySQL in backend handling. Started as a freshman software engineer, promoted to senior software engineer, lead a team of developers and honored Must Clone Employee Award. Worked on Billing Framework, Publishing Framework and Protocol Handlers for PixSense SAN (Social Application Network) Platform having customer base of more than 10 million using J2EE (Servlets, Struts, Velocity, DWR) & PHP on distributed linux server environment with MySQL in backend handling.



Karachi University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • Jan 2009 - Aug 2009

  Taught INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS & COMPUTER APPLICATIONS courses in Department of Computer Science & Department of Economics as a Visiting Faculty Member Taught INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEMS & COMPUTER APPLICATIONS courses in Department of Computer Science & Department of Economics as a Visiting Faculty Member