Uzair Zaffar
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Summary
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Experienced software engineer with 8+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, from
requirements gathering and analysis to design, development, testing, and deployment.
7+ years of practical expertise in front-end development, emphasizing contemporary frameworks
like Angular and React.
4+ years of hands-on experience developing RESTful APIs using Node.js and Spring Boot.
Familiar with software development life cycle models such as Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
methodologies.
Proficient in HTML5 and CSS3, with a keen eye for aesthetics and usability.
Skills
Programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java
Frameworks: Angular, React, Node.js, Spring Boot, Tailwind
Tools: AWS (EC2, S3, lambda, SNS, SQS), Docker, Jenkins, Git, JIRA
Experience
Staff Software Engineer - 05/2021 to Present
10Pearls, Karachi
• Spearheaded front-end development for an online food delivery platform Tastebuddy using
Angular. This project empowered individuals to search, sell, and promote homemade food .
• Took the helm in the deployment process of Tastebuddy utilizing AWS S3 to ensure a seamless,
reliable, and efficient user experience.
• Worked on a React.js and Node.js application focused on integrating OpenAI's capabilities to
generate unit tests for provided code.
• Led front-end team on the migration of a legacy Angularjs application to Angular 14.
• Led a team of front-end developers at Stride to develop an ed-tech platform, focusing on creating a
personalized education experience for students.
• Collaborated as a team member to work on the back-end development using Node.js and AWS
lambda.
Senior Software Engineer - 08/2020 to 04/2021
Ositech Communications inc, Karachi
• Took the lead in the front-end development of Connected4Life, an EMS service, using Angular, to
help increase survival rates of out-of-hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrests
• Collaborated as a team member that worked on the back-end development of the Connected4Life.
• Enhanced existing components and crafted new APIs using Spring Restful architecture and Node.js.
• Undertook comprehensive responsibility for end-to-end deployment of the Connected4Life,
encompassing both front-end and back-end.
Senior Software Engineer - 06/2015 to 08/2020
GfK Etilize, Karachi
• Part of the team that maintained and provided support for the legacy crawling service, RBEHelper,
including bug fixes and code refactoring.
• Played an integral part of the team that accomplished the successful development and deployment
of IONA, a crawling service, to crawl and deliver processed data as per requirements, replacing the
RBEHelper.
• Developed batch processing using spring batch procedures for retrieving and processing data using
IONA into the product management system.
• Engineered user interface (UI) for IONA utilizing Angular 2 to initiate, oversee, and track batch job
executions for new crawling service.
• Implemented oauth2 security using spring security for the new micro-service-based product
management system BURRAQ.
• Worked on creating the user interface using Angular 5 for the product management system
including key modules and training resources in Angular.
• Built a team from the ground up for front-end development using Angular 5.
Education
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Bachelor of Science: Computer Science - 2015
FAST NUCES University, Karachi
