Arsalan Mehmood

Arsalan Mehmood Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan- - linkedin.com/in/arsalan-mehmood-mobile-dev Summary Self motivated Mobile Application Developer with over 8 years of experience in software engineering and mobile application development using Java & Kotlin. Excellent understanding of Android Backend and UI guidelines. Proven ability to interface with clients, understand product requirements, and design proof of concept prototypes. More than 4 years of experience in managing local and remote teams with different skill set to complete many app & web projects. Experience Founder and Senior Mobile app developer Virtual Proz Jun 2016 - Present (5 years 3 months +) * Extensive experience in developing native mobile application for Android in Kotlin & Java. * Experience in managing multiple teams to deliver diverse projects in SCRUM environment successfully, while also working on Android projects in parallel. Like for "parkego", I was project manager with team of 5 people: Graphic designer, Backend developer, Frontend developer, iOS developer and QA person. While I was developing Android version of parkego. * As a Senior mobile app developer, I've managed team of 4 people (Graphic designer, Android & iOS devs and QA) and delivered more than 20 projects in past 3 years. * Managed a team of 3 people (2 WP devs & 1 QA) and successfully delivered more than 100 Wordpress projects in past 4 years. * Experience in hiring technical resources, in past 5 years I've interviewed more than 70 candidates with different backgrounds and hired around 10 of them for different job positions. * Experience in creating the POC (Proof of concept) and LOE (Level of Estimates) for the projects. * Communicated with more than 50 clients to understand their requirements and translating those requirements for technical team. Senior Architect and Lead Mobile developer Steamist Oct 2016 - Present (4 years 11 months +) * Developed native android applications for TSC-550 (custom hardware shown in attached image). * Created an architecture to auto download and update main android apps and microcontroller from custom server backend instead of Google Play Store. * Added complex native functionalities like clearing cache & data of apps, updating apps without user interaction, maintaining bluetooth connection in backend, killing and rebooting apps and many more. * Developed a protocol for inter apps communication for better user experience. * Achieved satisfaction of more than 4000 product users. * Integrated Bugfender to track bugs with complete logs in realtime on end clients devices, which improved efficiency by 50%. * Alexa & Google integration for voice commands to interact with TSC-550. Arsalan Mehmood - page 1 Founder and Mobile App Developer Virtual Proz Jun 2013 - May 2016 (3 years) * Developed an Android application for Scoobeez (On-Demand Deliveries). * Developed an application "LocPro" which was covered by CNN. LocPro makes your smartphone smarter. * Also developed and published many other applications like SurveyPlanet, Netlift, Social dashboard, parking lot, GPS tracker, SMS app. Internee Ebryx (Pvt.) Ltd. Jul 2012 - Jun 2013 (1 year) Worked on a prototype software for data leakage prevention on windows platform. Mobile App Developer Mewapps Jun 2012 - Feb 2013 (9 months) As a mobile app developer, I had successfully completed and published security and spy apps for Android platform. Education University of the Punjab BS Information Technology (BSIT), Computer Science Sep 2009 - Jun 2013 Skills Android Development • Mobile Applications • Project Management • Business Development • Software Project Management • Java • Kotlin • Model-view-viewmodel (MVVM) • RxJava • Kotlin Coroutines Honors & Awards Entrepreneurship Certificate - Plan9 - PITB's Tech Incubator Dec 2013 It was a great honour for me as a founding member of Virtual Proz when we got selected for Plan9 2nd Incubation cycle. It was after a very tough competition between more than 720 teams from all major cities of Pakistan and only 16 were selected. We successfully passed Incubation cycle by achieving all deliverables within 6 months set forth by Plan9 Management and Mentors. Arsalan Mehmood - page 2