TALAL ARSHAD
HOUSE # 520 A-1, TOWNSHIP, LAHORE, PAKISTAN
PHONE - • E-MAIL-DOB: 27 MAY, 1988 • NATIONALITY: PAKISTANI • GENDER: MALE
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
A young professional with experience in using Computer Science Skills within a professional environment.
Ability to learn and adapt quickly to the corporate world, ever changing environments, clients and company best
practices. Excellent communication skills, with the motivation and ambition to succeed in my chosen career.
My confident and hardworking demeanour lends itself to team situations and individual work. My professional
experience has driven my interest in securing a position within a successful, established outsourcing contact centre. I
feel that my strong communication, logical and persuasive skills combined with my ability to adapt to different
situations would be of relevance and immediately add value to your organisation.
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Skills:
Objective C, Java, PHP, JavaScript, ES5, ES6, Ruby, CSS, Html, C++, SQL
Team Working and Motivational Skills
Other:
Photoshop(Starter), MySQL, Database Design, API Development, Bootstrap
Frameworks:
Angular JS, React Native, Rails, Meteor JS, j2me, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Wordpress, Drupal, cocos2d-x,
Sencha, jQuery, Haml, sass, less.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2015 - Present
Punch Agency, Lahore
Full Stack Developer, Mobile App Developer, Mobile Games Developer
For the last 5 and a half years I have been working on IOS and full stack apps with different clients in Punch Agency.
This has really given me an opportunity to excel in areas like communication and requirement gathering. Here are some
interesting things I have been working on recently.
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Web Developer: Developed a website using Laravel framework, a newsletter publishing website. I designed and
developed the website completely from scratch. Website is live here, http://www.averos.com/.
Full Stack Developer: Developed an app using Sencha 4 for web for the frontend and Laravel PHP for the backend
which communicates with the API server developed in python which further communicated with the network devices to
control them and to get details of usage to show on our app.
Full Stack Developer: Developed an app using Meteor, a JavaScript framework for a US based company dispatchr. The
apps responsibility was to show all the grids and the status of the grids, if any of them need repairs and assign a crew
member to a grid. I developed many features for this app for about 6 months and is now stable and running.
Full Stack Developer: Developed an app using Facebook React on the frontend and rails in the backend, for a US
based company scrubpay. The apps responsibility was to facilitate the patients and the doctors for easy payments using
mobile phone. The app is live here, https://scrubpay-prod.herokuapp.com/login.
Full Stack Developer: Developed an app using Angular 1 on the frontend and PHP in the backend, for a US based
company bytesizemoments. The apps was to record to precious moments and I developed it using HTML5 video
recording API and with fallback to flash, record using laptop’s/mobile’s camera.
Full Stack Developer: Developed a website on shopify platform, vavavoo.com. The ecommerce was straight forward
using shopify, the hard part was monthly subscriptions for sending gifts and monthly subscriptions for a box of
products. We developed a node backend which would accept the web hooks when any order or subscription was created
and in there we actually created monthly subscriptions and handled the delivery using ship station integration with
shopify.
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Project Manager:. I was assigned as a project manager to a US based company named Giivv. Giivv is a platform to
facilitate organizations to post opportunities and help get them donors who can donate and volunteer in the available
opportunities. The front end was in Facebook React and the backend was written in Java Spring and there were third
party integrations with Volunteer Match API and stripe for accepting and processing payments.
August 2010 – August 2015
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foomotion, Lahore
Full Stack Developer: Developed a JavaScript based fun website where a person who logs in through Facebook, his
picture and his friend's pictures will be fetched and made part of the video being played. Sqlite3 was used as the database
and a self developed framework was used as the framework. This app was developed in JavaScript. Website is live at
http://kevilhill.dreamworld.com.au.
Full Stack Developer: Developed and designed an online store for educational documents in Ruby on Rails.
PostgreSQL was used as the database. No gem was used for the online store as no appropriate gem met the clients
requirements. Developed the gem for consuming the box API to upload the documents and show live preview of it on
the website. Website is live at https://www.eduary.com (production), https://eduary-staging.herokuapp.com (staging).
Web Developer: Developed and designed a mobile responsive and multilingual website in Drupal (PHP) for a company
based in Germany. Many modules were used and one as no appropriate module existed for basic PayPal integration so
one module was written to integrate PayPal into the website. Website is live at: http://www.brainorchestra.com/.
Web Developer: Developed a WordPress (PHP) based showcase website in two languages French and English.
Converted the PSD design to WordPress website. This website is mobile responsive. Website is live at http://kartedition.com.
Web Developer: Developed a WordPress based company portfolio responsive website for a client in Australia. Website
is live at: http://tvsarchitects.com.au.
Game Developer: Developed and designed a multiplatform and multiplayer turn based game named Mole a Hole for
iPhone, iPad and all android devices. One code base and one set of graphics were used for all the platforms. Game is live
at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/action-mole-a-hole-free-game/id-?mt=8
for
IOS
and
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tcg.moleaholefree for Android
IOS Developer: Developing a native IOS app named Stellar Relationships. This App consumes an API where we fetch
and save all the data in the IOS App. We can make calls through this app to our clients that can be added in different
groups and this app makes sure that we keep in touch with our clients.
Game Developer: Maintained a game named happy fish for android written in cocos2d for android in java. My
responsibilities were to fix different issues which were reported in this live game.
Game Developer: Developed the game word frenzy multiplayer for IOS from scratch. This game was developed in
Objective-C in the framework cocos2d for iPhone. It is a turn based multiplayer game which was developed using Game
Center's API where a user choses a word sends it to his friend on using game center and the other user has to guess the
word and gets numbers accordingly. The game is live at :http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-frenzy-multiplayerhangman/id-?ls=1&mt=8
Web Developer: Developed and designed a website from scratch on Drupal CMS (PHP). Customized modules to meet
the requirements. Main focus of the website was to advertise there new product. We were given the PSDs and we had to
convert them to a website in Drupal. The website is live at: http://na.sage.com/us/sage-one.
Full Stack Developer: Developed and designed a web based device controlling website consuming API provided by the
company to turn off/on Wi-Fi based devices and schedule them using the website. This website was developed in code
igniter framework and MySQL was used as the database. I developed and designed the scheduler plugin in JavaScript.
Web Developer: Designed and extended an existing CMS written in PHP language and used MySQL Database and
Smarty Template Engine for generating the views..
Web Developer: Designed and developed the backend for a fantasy sports system developed in Codeigniter framework
and MySQL was used as the database. In the web application a user could choose a team for the upcoming matches in
the cricket world cup, the matches information was obtained using the API provided by cricbuzz.com and we calculated
the scores of the players selected by the user on the basis of the performance of the actual players and the user with the
highest score wins.
Web Developer: Maintained different websites owned by the company in WordPress and Codeigniter which includes
the company website.
UNIVERSITY FINAL YEAR PROJECT
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My Final Year Project was to send text messages to mobiles without using any cellular network, Bluetooth was used for
the transmission purpose. This project was developed in j2me (Java) for Symbian mobiles. The concept of multi-hopping
was implemented to serve the purpose of sending the text message to the targeted user.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2006 – 2010
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Bachelors Degree
National University FAST
BS(CS)
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
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Attending the gym and playing football, cricket and badminton
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Socializing with friends
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Current affairs
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
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Arranging Blood Camps for blood collection in University.
Lahore, Pakistan
