Developer Engineer

Usman Asif

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phone: +1-425-***-****

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● MS and BS in Computer Science

● 7+ years of industry experience of building scalable web apps

● 2 successful startups running on their own

● 4 years of running a software house, with a team of around 30 developers.

● 10+ large scale projects.

● Worked alone and in teams, as a leader and otherwise, with large groups and startups.

● Experienced in front end, back end, system administration and test driven development. Education

● Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pk

MS in Computer Science (2014)

● National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST NU), Lahore, Pk

BS in Computer Science (2008)

S kills

Expert: C /C++ • Ruby on Rails • Git • JQuery • Rspec Proficient: Schema less Databases • Cucumber • Oauth 2.0 • Javascript • 3rd Party APIs Novice: A ngularJS • EmberJS

W ork Experience

Intellirentsf.com Techlead (July 2015 - Present) Ruby on Rails • JQuery

A web application to automate the rental process.

Devsinc. Techlead (Dec 2010- July 2015)

E DULEAF.COM TECH LEAD

C • Ruby on Rails • JQuery

An exam checking software, used by provincial board to grade 22.5 million questions to date.

● Project manager and team leader of 5-6 developers.

● Highly modular code to handle scalability.

● Worked on back-end in C, which automatically checks MCQ questions, calibrates paper orientation, and filters out blank questions.

● Software checked around 4000 questions per minute per CPU and handled around 1500 simultaneous users.

● Developed and wrote algorithms to:

Avoid collisions and conflicts, similar to the two-way handshake, while multiple teachers are simultaneously collaborating on grading an exam.

Efficiently display reports depending on screen resolution and report orientation API.MPHORIA.COM SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Rspec • Cucumber • Rails • CouchDB

A social, mobile, and web merchandising platform that allows retailers and publishers to set up fully-functional storefronts.

● High traffic website with more than 1.6 million users.

● Worked in team of 2 developers.

● Improved performance by 78%, as measured by GTMatrix pro, by shifting from apache to nginx, serving assets through CDNs,running multiple database slaves using multiple reads/single write Master-slave configuration, serving compressed assets if supported by the browser and improving cache techniques.

● Full stack engineering for scalability.

● Achieved 4+ GPA points on security and code coverage by test cases as measured by codeclimate.com by rigorously following test driven development guidelines. CIRCLESOFT.NET TEAM LEAD

Rails • QT Nokia SDK • JQuery

Circlesoft helps bookstores set up their complete online store in minutes.

● Worked with a team of 3 developers.

● Extremely busy site with 1500+ white label companies.

● Did major code refactoring on live website including:

Major architectural changes

Rails 2.3.5 to Rails 3.2.9

Non-standard URLs to RESTful routes

Schema changes

Maintained backward compatibility

Built offline desktop front end that syncs up automatically when connected. O THER PROJECTS

● CHIMPCHAMP.COM TECH LEAD

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● HUDDLEHR.COM TECH LEAD

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● PINTRIPS.COM DEVELOPER

● MEMOFIRE.COM DEVELOPER

● IAMSCIENTIST.COM DEVELOPER

● LETSLIVEWIRE.COM DEVELOPER

● SMILETIME.COM TECH LEAD

● MARKETFORMS.COM DEVELOPER

● PAPERLESS.PK MANAGER

Confiz Solutions Software Engineer (Sep 2009 - Dec 2010)

● SIMPLICANT.COM TECH LEAD

● IDEALINVENTORYSOLUTIONS.COM TECH LEAD

Uraan Software Solutions Software Engineer (Aug 2008 - Dec 2008)

● VIVOOK.COM TECH LEAD

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