Mohammad Zubair Ahmed

Engineering Manager / Senior Backend Engineer

Venturenox | Nov 2022 – Present | Lahore, PK

Managing a team of 5 engineers to deliver an AI SaaS product within 8 months of initial requirements and proof of concept
Managing a team of engineers as their technical lead to build an ERP SaaS product, writing PRDs, estimating engineering effort, reviewing code and ensuring best practices
Designing the architecture, engineering plan and technical requirements for products
Set up ETL tools such as Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow and Airbyte as research tasks and in SaaS projects to clone data between micro-services and to replicate production data to staging environments
Developed proof of concept within 3 months for an AI based SaaS that produced insights from a live meeting (zoom/google) using TensorFlow and YOLO models that led to sale
Developed REST APIs using ExpressJS, Objection(ORM), KnexJS and PostgreSQL to store data from Google identity, Slack, Github and Azure active directory integrations
Developed a modular in-house analytics engine to reduce latency and frontend load by approximately 30% using Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Psycopg2, Alembic, Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Developing and designing micro-services and their communication with tools like Docker, Apache Kafka, GRPC maintaining an orchestrated communication pattern
Built data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams to transform external data into a unified format leveraging multi-threading in Java for intensive loads at scale
Writing testcases for micro services, describing test and deployment policies related to unit-tests

Software Engineer (Web)

i2c | May 2022 – Nov 2022 | Lahore, PK

Maintaining banking websites, working on time sensitive and security critical tickets built in Java Struts and Struts 2 frameworks and IBM Informix DB such as bank card holder login screen and bank admin rewards program management
Future proofing security and scalability of the code using updated tools and practices such as static analyzers and PMD
Experience in building card-administrator components for banks
Responsible for on-boarding new customer banks onto the product and setting up initial database and site configurations

Software Engineer

ConsoliAds | Oct 2021 – March 2022 | Lahore, PK

Creating and maintaining features for the Web Portal, developing APIs using CodeIgniter, JavaScript, MYSQL, and Redis
Writing Cronjobs for database operations eg: sending emails, notifications, and billing information
Implementing concurrency in MYSQL database by configuring database and using threading and locking mechanisms
Creating effective data visualizations for business development from dataset greater than 150 million rows using PowerBI
Additional responsibilities included maintaining and establishing GDPR 5 compliance and R&D

About Me

Experience

Engineering Manager / Senior Backend Engineer

Software Engineer (Web)

Software Engineer

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Projects

Maktab edx online.maktab.org.pk

Various Websites | WordPress, Shopify, Flask, Express

Technical Skills