Experience

Stormatics

• Singapore
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Feb 2023 - 11 months

  Singapore Take 2! Stormatics is a venture whose roots are defined by my passion for PostgreSQL. Our mission is to help businesses use PostgreSQL reliably for their critical data workloads. Our prominent services are: Optimized Scaling: Boost performance of your database to match your workload, while maintaining high availability and the ability to recover from disasters. Managed Services: Focus on your core business and leave your database to experts who will seamlessly manage your… Show more Take 2! Stormatics is a venture whose roots are defined by my passion for PostgreSQL. Our mission is to help businesses use PostgreSQL reliably for their critical data workloads. Our prominent services are: Optimized Scaling: Boost performance of your database to match your workload, while maintaining high availability and the ability to recover from disasters. Managed Services: Focus on your core business and leave your database to experts who will seamlessly manage your entire database infrastructure for you. Migrations & Upgrades: Migrate your database infrastructure or technology and upgrade to the latest major releases with zero downtime so your application never goes down. Show less



Percona

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Head of PostgreSQL

  • Jul 2021 - Dec 2022

  I was responsible for driving software adoption and commercial success for PostgreSQL at Percona. This involved: - Product roadmap based on competitive landscape and user interviews - Defining OKRs and then defining the strategy to deliver on them - Interfacing with stakeholders across the breadth of the organization to drive results



2ndQuadrant

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Product & Marketing

  • May 2015 - Jan 2021

  I was a part of the executive team that led 2ndQuadrant's internally funded growth, culminating in its acquisition by EDB. My role here had a singular objective: Make 2ndQuadrant the Gold Standard for PostgreSQL Products & Services. It involved: - Strategic planning to define and then achieve KPIs for business growth - Identifying new channels to promote the organization's competitive advantage - Creating roadmaps for 2ndQuadrant products that make up the PostgreSQL ecosystem -… Show more I was a part of the executive team that led 2ndQuadrant's internally funded growth, culminating in its acquisition by EDB. My role here had a singular objective: Make 2ndQuadrant the Gold Standard for PostgreSQL Products & Services. It involved: - Strategic planning to define and then achieve KPIs for business growth - Identifying new channels to promote the organization's competitive advantage - Creating roadmaps for 2ndQuadrant products that make up the PostgreSQL ecosystem - Analyzing market behavior to launch new services that distinguish 2ndQuadrant from competition - Operationalizing product development for predictable and high quality releases - Supporting the PostgreSQL Global Development Group by means of active participation in development, conference sponsorships, & local user groups Show less

• PostgreSQL Architect

  • Dec 2014 - May 2015

  New Jersey Providing services around Business Intelligence and PostgreSQL database management. Stormatics was my attempt at creating a consulting company around the PostgreSQL eco-system. Unfortunately, however, I ran out of my personal financial runway before the company took off.



OpenSCG

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Consultant

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2014

  New Jersey Providing consultancy around the PostgreSQL database involving onsite work with the clients. Some of the major achievements in this role are: - Leading a team to develop the complete Business Intelligence stack including automated reports for a leading U.S. telecom service provider. This BI stack handled more than 500GB of data every day and was based on the PostgreSQL database with applications developed in Java. - Part of the team that implemented Agile/Scrum methodologies for a… Show more Providing consultancy around the PostgreSQL database involving onsite work with the clients. Some of the major achievements in this role are: - Leading a team to develop the complete Business Intelligence stack including automated reports for a leading U.S. telecom service provider. This BI stack handled more than 500GB of data every day and was based on the PostgreSQL database with applications developed in Java. - Part of the team that implemented Agile/Scrum methodologies for a leading telecom service provider in the U.S. - Migration of schema, data, and application Java code from Oracle and MySQL to PostgreSQL for a leading SaaS provider in the U.S. The migration involved more than 300 tables, over 250 stored procedures, and adjustments in tens of thousands of LOC in Java. - Leading a team to migrate approximately 500 existing Crystal reports to Jasper for a leading logistics firm in the U.S. - Articulated the messaging for inside sales for the company's fresh focus on services around big data technologies like Cassandra, Hadoop, & MongoDB. Created email and website content for marketing purposes. Show less



EnterpriseDB

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Development Services

  • Sep 2003 - Jul 2011

  United States / Pakistan Primarily responsible for release/sustenance management to ensure timely and top quality delivery of the flagship product, Postgres Plus Advanced Server. During my time in this role, the development organization was transformed from an ad hoc group to a highly functional and organized team delivering two major and four minor releases per year in a highly consistent and predictable manner. Some of the major accomplishments are listed below: - Increased automation of… Show more Primarily responsible for release/sustenance management to ensure timely and top quality delivery of the flagship product, Postgres Plus Advanced Server. During my time in this role, the development organization was transformed from an ad hoc group to a highly functional and organized team delivering two major and four minor releases per year in a highly consistent and predictable manner. Some of the major accomplishments are listed below: - Increased automation of script-based testing 500-fold to dramatically increase throughput for releases - Expanded product maintenance from 1 code path and 2 platforms to 7 code paths and 5 platforms while staying within the same staffing capacity - Successfully implemented the process for delivering hot fixes to production environments - Led the implementation of build and test farms that runs daily automated tests on 7 supported code paths across 5 supported platforms - Introduced automated performance testing framework as part of the daily regression runs. This helped identify memory leaks and performance regressions very quickly and early in the development cycle. Show less



UsaimiGulf

• Kuwait
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Dec 2004 - Jun 2005

  Kuwait - Architect for a 4-tier infrastructure to support portfolio management for investment banking - Led the team to implement all 4 tiers of the product; database schema, Data Access Layer, Business logic, Graphical User Interface - Developed processes for quality assurance and quality control - Recruited the entire team from Pakistan and took them to Kuwait for the project (On sabbatical from EnterpriseDB for this project)



Advanced Engineering Research Organization

• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Manager

  • May 2002 - Sep 2003

  Pakistan Joined as a fresh graduate and added value to various modules the organization was working on. Quickly got promoted to team lead position on one of the projects. - Team lead for a real-time software to automate message switching system for the Civil Aviation Authority - Developer on a software for centralizing interface with various radars of the Civil Aviation Authority - Developer on a digital sound recording software to store air traffic communication