Digital Transformation Full-Stack Web

Asif Shiraz

ARCHITECT / TECHNICAL LEAD

Austin, TX 78750 512-***-**** **********@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/asif-shiraz-7671383 OVERVIEW

A seasoned technologist, with expertise in generating business value through digital transformation. I bring a diversity of technical experience running projects in the full-stack web, mobile and cloud space, with particular focus on FinTech, Blockchain and AI/LLM Ops. I align software architecture to business context in a pragmatic, value-oriented approach, creating efficiencies that are difficult to achieve for less experienced leaders. Affable personality. Can-Do attitude. Creative Thinker. Great analytical abilities.

KEY STRENGTHS

● FinTech Experience - Great fit for finance vertical, including Crypto and Bitcoin

● 15+ Years - Fortune 100 to startups, leading teams of up to 12 people

● Enterprise Architecture - Experience architecting greenfield and migration projects using Cloud, Data Ops and AI

● Dev Ops - Excellent grasp of Kubernetes, Docker and Containerization platforms

● Distributed Teams: Scrum and SAFe methodologies for complex delivery management

● Cutting Edge Skills: Ability to use latest technologies for digital transformation SKILLS

ARCHITECTURES Cloud-Native (AWS, Azure, GCP), Serverless, Microservices, CQRS, Event-Driven,, Actor-Based, ReSTful/HATEOAS, Fog/Edge, Massively Scalable, SPA, Containers, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) AI / DATA SCIENCE Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Rasa, Chat GPT APIs, Langchain, LLM, RAG, Embeddings, Milvus, NLP, Predictive Analytics, Recommendation Systems, AI Model Deployment and Integration, Data Visualization (Tableau, Power BI), Statistical Modeling

FRAMEWORK /

TOOLS

SOLID, 12-Factor, TDD, BDD, Pure Agile-Scrum, Waterfall-Agile, CI/CD, Design Patterns, Kubernetes, Docker, Kustomize, GitOps, Flask/Django, Kafka, Redis, Terraform, Istio/Service Mesh

LANGUAGES C#, Python, Rust, Javascript, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, PowerShell, C/C++. SQL. Dabbled in Elixir and Golang.

CRYPTO Ethereum/Solidity/Truffle/OpenZeppelin, Stacks/Clarity, Bitcoin/Lightning, (BTC Magazine Author)

WEB Aurelia, Angular, React (with Redux, Ducks), Bootstrap, Meteor, HTML5, CSS, JQuery, KendoUI, Infragistics

MOBILE Xamarin, React Native, Expo, Flutter

SERVER-SIDE/

MIDDLEWARE

Serverless, Net framework, ASP.Net, Django, Restful API, GraphQL, Web API, MVC, Node.js, Flask, Rest, Swagger, Owin, WebForms, Classic ASP, Isomorphic Javascript

(Phoenix), Microsoft Service Fabric, Microsoft Orleans, Akka.Net STORAGE SQL Server, Oracle, NoSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, T-SQL, Entity Framework, NHibernate, PostgreSql, MySQL

CLOUD Amazon AWS: Cloudformation, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, Alexa, Sam, CloudFront, CloudWatch, API Gateway, IAM, Cognito, ECR, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes, Heroku

Microsoft Azure: Azure Service Bus, Service Fabric, Storage, KeyVault, AppInsights, GCP: Cloud Functions, Datastore, Storage, Alexa, Kubernetes SEARCH STACK Elastic Stack, Elasticsearch

BUSINESS ANALYSIS Business Communication, Requirements Discovery, SRS Writing, Stories & Acceptance Criteria, Use Case Development, Visio, UML OTHER INTERESTS Blockchain, CNC, 3D Printing, Wood working, IoT, Raspberry Pi, Arduino COMMON

TOOLS/LIBRARIES

RhinoMocks, XUnit, NUnit, GIT, TFS, JIRA, MSTest, Selenium, Jasmine, Jest Verticals Healthcare, FinTech, Visual Studio, VS Code, PyCharm, Jupyter WORK HISTORY

Prescryptive Health Inc

Redmond, WA, Principal Software Engineer, 02/2022-10/2023 Prescryptive Health seeks to minimize the cost of prescription medicine by eliminating the middleman, and employ open technologies like Blockchain to secure healthcare systems. My role as principal engineer involved architecting and designing new solutions, as well as hands on coding, and mentorship of junior developers. Primary focus included development of FHIR compliant interfaces for PHI data.

Cox Automotive

Austin, TX, Lead Software Engineer, 10/2018-02/2022 Growing out of acquisitions, Cox needed a solution to manage and standardize its disparate suite of APIs. I designed a custom solution for an API Gateway platform, using Terraform, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Okta OAuth, .Net MVC & React. It allowed teams to manage the lifecycle of their APIs including automated provisioning with scalability and fault tolerance. Also streamlined the subscription process, and managed a cookbook style manual for standardizing Restful / Hatoes API development conventions in the enterprise.

Confluence Technologies, Inc

Pittsburgh, PA, Senior Software Engineer, 08/2016-09/2018 Confluence is a pioneer in the regulatory reporting segment of the wider Fintech industry. Our application processed huge amounts of data from Banks and Hedge Funds like Blackrock, to generate reports for regulatory filings. I designed this solution using a novel Actor based solution that process using Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft Orleans Framework, C# .Net Web API with Redux/Aurelia Front End and Auth0.

Charles Schwab

Austin, TX, Senior Staff Software Engineer, 08/2015-08/2016 Lead Schwab representative in consultant lead project for Authentication APIs for OAuth and Saml integration with Angular/Bootstrap login microsite. based SPA, employing .Net stack on MongoDB. Doubleline Partners (Dell Foundation)

Austin, TX, Senior Developer, 02/2014-08/2015

Azure based web application heavily employing Xml processing, code generation and T4 templates, for processing educational data.

Dell Inc.

Austin, TX, Analyst / Developer, 04/2007-02/2014

Agile development in Javascript & C# for Clickstream processing and Google Earth/Maps API. Worked in a high-performing Agile team that pioneered the popular onion-architecture. EDUCATION

MS. Software Engg, 2016, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

- Thesis: Distributed Constraint Optimization for robotic agents using Java / Mosquitto / MQTT BE Engg Telecom (1998), NUST, Pakistan

A-Levels 1994. Froebel’s International School, Pakistan Senior Cambridge, (1991), St. Mary’s Academy, Pakistan

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