- Built a Slack bot enabling metric creation, updates, deletes, and search from the core app using slash commands, events, scheduled messages, and interactive components.
- Delivered third-party integrations with Jira, Salesforce, Asana, Zendesk, Tableau, Baremetrics, Google Docs, and Google Calendar.
- Designed and implemented AWS network architecture for multiple workloads (web app, analytics pipeline, database) and environments.
- Established coding standards and review practices to improve consistency, readability, maintainability, and testability.
- Developed Angular front-end features and Laravel APIs; contributed to architecture discussions and peer code reviews.
- Designed a new REST API that unified legacy MVC components with custom client requirements.
Experience
Backend-heavy product engineering with integrations, scalable APIs, and team collaboration.
- Rebuilt the company brand website from scratch with a modular architecture.
- Integrated third-party booking systems and partner APIs.
- Built a module-based page builder to improve content flexibility.
- Integrated Salesforce and Dynamics CRM with WordPress through third-party APIs.
- Installed Google Analytics and refined reporting for faster troubleshooting.
- Built a tool to import Associated Press news and images into WordPress via the AP News Media API.
- Documented, built, and consumed RESTful APIs.
- Applied SEO best practices across web projects.
- Delivered new features using PHP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL.
- Maintained and modernized web apps through refactoring, performance tuning, bug fixes, and migrations.
- Optimized code for performance and maintainability.
- Collaborated in cross-functional agile teams.
- Collaborated with team leads and project managers to deliver on-time milestones.
- Applied core web concepts, including HTTP request handling.
- Used Git for version control in collaborative environments.
- Integrated MySQL databases with PHP applications.
- Diagnosed and resolved PHP development issues across multiple applications.
Skills
Core stack and tools used across the product lifecycle.
Backend & APIs
PHP
Laravel
Symfony
CodeIgniter
CakePHP
RESTful
SOAP
Frontend
JavaScript
jQuery
Angular
Vue
HTML
CSS
Bootstrap
Data & Storage
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MS SQL
Oracle
MS Access
Cloud & DevOps
AWS
Docker
Jenkins
Nginx
Apache
Tools
JIRA
Git
SVN
Selenium
Elasticsearch
Payments
PayPal
Stripe
Authorize.net
Payment Wall
Coinsgate
Education
Formal training in computer science and emerging technologies.
NED University of Engineering & Technology
Master of Science, Computer Science and Information Technology
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
University of Sindh
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Jan 2007 - Dec 2010
Software Engineering
Operating Systems
Database
Digital Logic Design