Tilal Husain
Senior Solutions Architect
Profile
• Overall 12+ years of experience with 5 years of experience in
Javascript Frameworks (VueJS, AngularJS & ReactJS) with DevOps
tools and methodologies.
• Experienced in leading small to mid sized engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of DevOps methods and CI/CD automation
practices (Git and Jenkins).
• Hands on experience in building large scale ReactJS/VueJS SPAs.
• Working knowledge of different JS task runners such as Webpack
and gulp.
• Ability to envision and design whole application structure from
ground up.
• Managed multiple teams of developers and led them to
development and deployment of large scale applications
• Experienced in creating auto deployment bash scripts.
• Deep understanding of server side frameworks such as Laravel,
Rails, NestJS and Yii.
• Skilled at various version control tools and services such as git,
svn, github and bitbucket.
• Hands on experience in developing mobile first application
experience.
• Working experience of project management tools and techniques
such as Jira, Asana, Trello and Scrum.
Employment History
Chief Technical officer at CitizenRemote LLC, Remote
January 2023 — Present
In my current role as CTO, I am leading a tech team in building an
ecosystem of products spanning across web and mobile.
Managing Director Interview Technologies at Talent Inc, Remote
January 2022 — December 2022
• Oversaw the future development of our mock interview software
and ensuring ongoing innovation.
• Worked with marketing teams to develop and execute acquisition
strategies on our consumer side.
• Integrated Interview School with other Talent products to build an
ecosystem of career related products.
Chief Technical Officer at Interview School LLC, Remote
June 2018 — December 2021
• Lead a team of developers and designers to create AI powered
interview preparation tool.
• Used Git as Source Code Management and Asana as project
management tool.
Details
Islamabad
Pakistan
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Skills
HTML5
MongoDB
Node.js
React
PHP
CSS
MySQL
Git
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Amazon AWS
Agile Development
DevOps
Docker
• Designed complete AWS architecture for deployment of
application including (EC2, S3, Cloudfront and RDS).
• Designed and developed highly efficient database architecture.
• Designed and developed REST API to be consumed by VueJS based
single page application.
Chief Technical Officer / Founder at PushPrime, Islamabad
November 2016 — May 2018
• Lead a team of developers and created one of the world’s first web
push notifications platform.
• Developed an AngularJS based dashboard which offers real time
analytics and deep data insights to customers.
• Architected designed and developed fault tolerant solution for
sending millions of notifications reliably.
• Created Pre-requisite document, requirement specification
document, analysis and high-level design document and detail
design document.
• Designed and developed a JS library which is now embedded on
150+ websites and ecommerce stores.
• Developed a REST API for third party integrations.
• Oversaw the development of plugins for wordpress, shopify,
magento, opencart, joomla and weebly.
• Ran the product successfully until its acquisition in late 2018.
Engineering Manager at Vite Technologies, Remote / Mauritius
November 2016 — August 2017
• Implemented a ride sharing solution similar to Lyft for African
market.
• Oversaw the development of a server less mobile application
using Firebase (Cloud Messaging, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage
& Real Time Database)
• Designed a cutting edge real time backend using AngularJS and
AngularFire.
• Lead the company in its ICO along with founders Isaac & Ukeme.
• Actively participated in the development of rider and driver
application for Android.
Tech Lead at Tap Tap Entertainment LLC, Remote
August 2013 — August 2016
• My daily job responsibilities included design, development,
testing and deployment of mobile and web applications.
• As main technical lead, spearheaded the development and
created an application which was ranked no. 4 in entertainment
category on iTunes.
• Implemented bug tracking mechanisms to maintain quality for an
application with over 5 Million downloads.
• I worked on Eclipse (and later Android Studio) to develop Android
Applications using JAVA, XML.
• I worked on xCode to develop iOS Application using Objective-C
and Swift.
• Worked with designer and used Adobe Creative Suite CS to design
applications.
• Coded these designed applications in JAVA and used JSON
parsing.
• Gathered customer’s requirement and put up the project plan for
future projects.
• Developed web applications using WordPress CMS.
• Followed Scrum Methodology during my time and participated in
daily stand up meetings and sprintreview meetings.
• Did project workflow management and issue tracking using JIRA.
• I also conducted technical interviews for new hires in android and
web development departments.
Founding Engineer at SoulGap Pty Ltd, Remote
August 2011 — August 2013
• Developed a real time messaging application using Ejabberd and
Objective-C.
• Worked closely with management to gather requirements and
convert them into project milestones.
• Wrote a completely secure end to end chat solution for iOS
platform.
• Oversaw the design process to create a unique user experience.
• Wrote custom ejabberd modules to push open source server to
99% throughput.
• Handled the application release and worked closely with Apple
and SoulGap team to remove issues in release.
Freelancer at VWorkr.com / Freelancer.com, Remote
May 2008 — August 2011
Worked as a professional freelancer during my studies and was ranked
70 out of 500k freelancers on vWorker before it was acquired by
freelancer.com.
Education
B.S. Electronics Engineering, Muhammad Ali Jinnah University,
Islamabad, Pakistan
May 2007 — August 2011
Courses
Cisco Certified Networking Associate CCNA Training Certificates
September 2011 — September 2011
Cisco Certified Networking Professional CCNP Training Certificates
December 2011 — December 2011