Shahzad

Chief of Engineering Management

Glowfish Product Studio • Fulltime

Jun 2024 - Present • 1 yr 11 mos

- Implement mechanisms to monitor, manage, and provide progress on all software development activities. - Drive innovation with new ideas and options made available by new technologies, by identifying and implementing technology trends that will be able to support the future success of the product. - Lead and oversee all technical analysis, specifications, and estimation to make sure they are complete and accurate, leading to top-quality written specifications, strategy, and implementation. - Facilitate technology and decision-making throughout the team, including standardization of system architecture, reusable code base development, versions of software tools, best practices, source control, and deployment processes. - Provide technical leadership through coaching and mentorship. - Plan for team growth, considering the blend/level of skills required within the team, with a focus on excellence across the engineering organization. - Maintaining high standards of software quality within the team by establishing best practices, systems, and policies. - Facilitate the smooth delivery of the product enhancements and support delivered by the team. - Help plan future-proof reusable core code libraries, which can be shared, to drive further efficiencies throughout the team

Engineering Manager

EMPG Labs (SMC-PVT) Ltd • Fulltime

Feb 2022 - Mar 2023 • 1 yr 1 mo

- Led the diverse team of the Jobs vertical. - Reinitiated the vertical, which was dormant for about 5 years. - Got the project stabilized and upgraded to the latest version of Django and NextJS. - Delivered 5 big projects for the vertical within a year. - Launched an Application Tracking System (ATS) for the Recruiters built using the latest version of Django, PostgreSQL, and NextJs.

Head Of Engineering

Dawaai (Pvt) Ltd • Fulltime

Sep 2019 - Oct 2021 • 2 yrs 1 mo

- Scaled the application and architecture from one single monolith to many domain-specific monoliths. - Scaled the infrastructure from one Big EC2 instance to many smaller ones and leveraged the full potential of Amazon AWS. - Reduced the infrastructure cost by 70% while increasing the scalability and reliability of the application. - Scaled the department from 2 Junior developers to 30+ teams working on the Mobile, Backend, Frontend, SQA, and DevOps departments. - Solved inventory and finance issues by getting the Odoo ERP implemented. - Launched 3 internal mobile apps along with Tele-Consultancy support in customer-facing applications. - Strengthened departmental policies and security, along with application security, to get PCI-DSS certification. Dawaai.pk became the first PCI-DSS-certified e-pharmacy in Pakistan. - Helped the operations to process 200% of orders in a day by running the operation 24/7 without technical glitches. - Ensured the uptime of the system by 99.8%. - Awarded with the CEO Pick Award.