Waqas Hassan

Waqas Hassan https://www.linkedin.com/in/waqashassan98 http://github.com/waqashassan98 - |- Summary I am an experienced full stack software engineer/architect, who can get involved in any stage of digital product lifecycle, be it leads capture, sales funnel setup, delivery of products, SaaS application development, any bespoke app development or just Project Management. Skills Programming Languages Content Management Systems Frontend Tools/Technologies Backend Tools/Technologies AWS Services API Integrations Project Management Tools PHP, Javascript, C, C++, C#, Objective C Wordpress, Joomla HTML/CSS/SCSS, VUE JS, Angular Gulp, Bower, jQuery Composer, Node NPM, MySQL Workbench Lambda, S3, CloudFront, EC2, RDS Xero, Ontraport, Google Drive, Stripe, Dropbox, etc. Trello, Asana, Jira, Basecamp Work History Engineering Manager - 10/2020 – Till Date NewRich Network, Canada (Remote)  Created multiple startup projects in WordPress and Laravel.  Handled different CRMs, payment gateways and Sales Funnels automations  Lead a team of 5 developers.  Tasked with proposing solutions for all the technology related scenarios. Senior Software Engineer - 03/2019 – 09/2020 NextBridge, Lahore  Built WordPress sites and custom plugins  Built an Enterprise Scale WordPress Product Information Management System. Web Developer - 06/2017 - 02/2019 Segen Tech  Managed and trained new interns for Web Development  Websites and Portals Web Developer (Remote) - 03/2015 - 05/2017 Positive Profits LLC – Carson, Nevada US  Funnel development while remaining focused on client needs.  Collaborated with the design, development and support teams to launch products, sales funnels on time.  Designed and developed membership sites from the ground up.  Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer needs into prioritized product requirements and use cases.  Created and Monitored Split tests, Analytics to measure KPI and find factors affecting performance.  Collaborated with developers to enhance conversions and identify performance bottlenecks.  Implemented & documented use of best technologies and platforms. Web Developer (Remote) - 08/2014 - 02/2015 PeakLifePublishing – Yelm, Washington US  Developed and optimized sales funnels.  Designed and developed membership sites from the ground up.  Wrote and implemented scripts to enhance user experience and integrated scripts with the CMS and CRM.  Provided continued maintenance and development of bug fixes and patch sets for existing web applications.  Managed server and developed website architecture, test plans, and software of various components. Mobile Apps Developer - 06/2013 - 10/2014 Semantic Notion – Lahore, Punjab Pakistan  Modified existing applications/games to fix errors, adapt to new standards and improve performance.  Designed and developed 2d games for iOS using Cocos2d.  Migrated existing 2d games to Android using Cocos2d-x.  Built, tested and deployed Cocoa Apps Education Bachelor of Science: Computer Engineering, 2012 National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - Lahore, Pakistan O/A Level: Majors in Computing, Maths and Physics, 2008 Sadiq Public School - Bahawalpur, Pakistan Past Projects PIM This is an enterpise level product information management system built in WordPress, which uses AWS lambda and S3 services to manage content, queues and media. This project was built in a tenure of 1 year, and is used by renown companies. Arkival Magnetics This is a WordPress Order Handling Mechanism for one of the major Magnetic Testing Companies. The project needed the clients to automatically place an order, and view its progress on real-time. Upon placement of an order, the site admin would confirm the details of the order from the client and send the order to a technician. The technician would conduct the tests, fill in the form values and assign back to admin. The admin would then assign the order to a Reporter, who will generate and upload pdf records of the files based on the test data. After completion, the order would be marked as completed. This requires the data to be only accessible to particular users if they are assigned to it. Any information of the order that is shared is on need to know basis for that user role. SVA – Students Volunteer Army They had a platform to log service hours and award certificates based on the hours. They were managing everything in Ontraport and that was where they starting seeing limitations. I overhauled their backend architecture. Shifted the storage and logging mechanism to WordPress and created integrations to sync timely records with Ontraport. I also created a student report mechanism, where users could download their performance reports but with API usage limits enforced. PlanPhone – Cell Phone Plans Selection Tool and Blog dev.planphone.com was a project that started off as a very simple project but grew exponentially. The purpose of this project was to build a wordpress based tool, which allowed the selection of plans, lines and cell phones to US based customers. We used custom post types and pods templates to bring and show data hosted on google sheets. The site uses some advanced wordpress concepts, ajax data handling, understrap, scss, with everything custom made. Christian Simpson – Woocommerce Xero Ontraport I created a plugin in WordPress, which synced their purchases from US and UK stores with Xero and Ontraport on US and UK accounts respectively. Spring Lotto API Integration with Ontraport This was an interesting reverse engineering project. We were receiving a feed of player activities with no structured data and we had to organize and integrate the player activities with Ontraport, so that the client could promote the in-app purchases via emails. I developed an intermediate database, and with the help of a couple of crons, one of which was responsible for pulling data from feed server and the other was responsible for updating required data on Ontraport, we accomplished this feat. Biometric Attendance System and SMS Notifier Developed this Desktop Application for a client (Electronic Solutions - Lahore). The application interfaced with a mesh of biometric Attendance Machines. It maintained a database for sign-in and sign-out times. It had an option to notify guardians via sms when the employee/student signed in, out or when he/she was absent. SMS Campaigns Portal - http://electronicsolutions.pk/smsportal This was a web portal, which integrated with Mobilink's SMS API. It provided the ability to schedule and send masked sms to a list of clients, uploaded by the customer. Monthly Recurring Billing System was also added. It kept track of sms sent and available for assigned package to the customer. Shahkaar - The Masterpiece - http://shahkaar.org This is an online marketplace aimed to connect artists as a vendor to their customers. This was a self initiated project to facilitate the skilled artists of Pakistan. Online Membership Portals Developed a number of web portals during my job with Positive Profits. They were used to manage the access to video lectures and purchased software by the customers based on their subscription history. The portals were connected to CRMs and Payment Processor handlers to maintain the current status of deliverables to the customer. Sample: http://library.theartofsimplegolf.com/ https://youtu.be/5-XpII4M1EE GPS Based Navigation Robot This was my final year project at university. I built the software responsible to localize the robot based on GSM Modem and deploying path finding algorithm to navigate the robot to its destination. The Twelves Network based windows game, built on top of Allegro Graphics Library and C++. It was a tournament based game. It was designed for Computer Networks Course Project.