Work Experience πŸ’Ό

Rocketbots Malaysia sdn bhd (respond.io)

Mobile Team Lead

  • In my current role as Mobile Team Lead, following my promotion from Senior Developer, I manage a range of responsibilities that include team leadership, stakeholder communication, defining and tracking quarterly goals, conducting 1:1 meetings, and participating in the hiring process. My focus as a leader has been to ensure the team consistently delivers high-quality features aimed at enhancing the mobile user experience.
  • A notable achievement was leading the initiative to significantly improve app performance. Under my guidance, we optimized the application, resulting in a 73.7% improvement in loading times on Android and a 55.8% improvement on iOS. These efforts have helped ensure a smoother, more efficient user experience for our mobile customers.
  • In addition to my leadership responsibilities, I have remained hands-on with coding and the development of proofs of concept (POCs) for high-priority projects. This has allowed me to stay close to the technical aspects of our work while ensuring innovation and technical excellence in project delivery.

March 2024 - Present


Senior Mobile Developer

  • Worked as senior member of a newly formed team to develop a native mobile application for respond.io's messaging platform.
  • Responsibilities included creating a new react native project using the latest patterns, selecting the libraries for meeting the requirements, setting clean coding practices and standards etc for a performant and scalable app to meet the demands of a messaging platform.
  • Achieved to successfully build and release the respond.io - inbox with limited resources and boasting crash free rate of above 99.9% for iOS and Android.

November 2022 - April 2024

Maze Design Lab

Founder & CTO

  • Leading Maze Design Lab Technologies in entrepreneurship and development efforts to deliver high value custom software to small and medium business enterprises.
  • Past and current projects include developing furniture e-commerce site, IoT enabled smart farming solution and clinic management system.
  • Responsibilities also include communicating with clients, doing market research, overseeing project management and handling company operations.

Jan 2019 - Present

SOCAR Mobility Malaysia sdn bhd

React Native Developer

  • Mobile application developer using React Native to develop and maintain the main business applications ie SOCAR, TREVO.
  • Everyday tasks included improving the stability of the SOCAR 2.0 application, increasing the crash free rate of a low of 70% to above 90%. While also developing new features.
  • Significant achievements included enhancing the Trevo booking experience by implementing dynamic calendar search functionality, creating a seamless and intuitive interface comparable to the Airbnb booking process.

    Completely rewrote the error prone bluetooth smart key module using state machines leading to a significant improvement on business growth operations and customer satisfaction.

March 2021 - October 2022

tiger lab sdn bhd

Junior Frontend Web Developer

Frontend developer working in insurance-tech industry to delivery enterprise level solutions to insurance companies. Working with technologies such Angular, React and Django to deliver high quality UI/UX experiences.

Apr 2020 - Feb 2021

REKA Inisiatif Sdn Bhd

Software Developer (Intern)

Part of the core software development team, relied upon to deliver to clients. Worked on MERN stack to develop PWAs using React and Firebase. NodeJs and MongoDB used separately for projects tasked to create own secure database. Worked in a self motivated team to quickly deliver products.

Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission

Software Engineer (Intern)

Part of the GIS department, trained to use software suites such as ArcGIS and QGIS to develop and maintain databases using SQL language. Worked on Android development project to create database of hospitals to quickly send location of the hospital based on users current location.

June 2018 - August 2018

Programming & ToolsπŸ’»

Languages:

Java Script, TypeScript, Python, PSQL

Technologies and Frameworks:

React, React Native, AWS, NodeJS, MongoDB, Firebase, Angular, Django, Git, Docker, GatsbyJS

Project Management & Productivity

Jira, Click Up, Linear ,Zapier, Make. com

Operating Systems:

Mac OSX, Windows, Ubuntu(Linux)

Education πŸŽ“

Bachelor in Computer Information & Electronics Engineering

Minor in Business Administration

International Islamic University Malaysia

2015 - 2019

Relevant Coursework: Programming for Engineers, Digital Logic Design, Computer Organization and Microprocessors, Data Structures and Algorithm Design, Computer Architecture and Systems Design, Software Engineering Design, Multimedia Information Systems, Computer Networking, Database Design, Object Oriented Programming with Java, Operating Systems


American High School Diploma

International School of Kuantan

2011 - 2015

Class Valedictorian

Volunteer Work πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ

Vice President of Students Industrial Training Club, IIUM

Part of the main board of the society. Responsible for organizing site visits for students to increase their exposure to real-world technical problems.

Nov 17 - Mar 19

Multimedia Team Member for Global Ummatic Festival 2017

Member of the team responsible for handling audio/visual effects for the duration of the event. Responsible for creating posters, graphics and name-tags for the activities that were part of the week long festival.

Nov 17

IEEE Student Member

Student member of the IEEE IIUM chapter. Responsibilities included organizing seminars and promoting IEEE between the students.

2017

ICAN (NGO) Committee Member

Part of the team responsible of promoting the NGO, to collect funds and organize visits to charities and shelter homes.

2017

Publications πŸ”¬

β€œAn Overview of Ethical Concerns in Re-engineering the Human Body”

Scholar's Bulletin 10/17

DOI: 10.21276/sb.2017.3.10.16

Awards πŸ†

Dean's List Award

Awarded to students who achieve GPA of 3.50 and above in a full academic semester. Recipient on multiple occasions.

IEEE FYP Presentation Award

Awarded in recognition of presenting my final year project titled, "A Blockchain Solution to IoT-based Energy Security". 2nd Runner Up in the Computer Track

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