Syed Waqas

CTO at SkillsDB

United States

About

I have over 11 years of collective experience of hands-on software development and leading software engineering teams. I am well-versed in software design patterns and best practices and have extensive experience with tools & technologies such as Typescript, Javascript, NestJS, NextJS, ReactJS, React Native, SQL and AWS. I have a proven track record of developing applications across web, mobile, and API platforms, ensuring a seamless and integrated user experience. I have driven software development teams to deliver successful and profitable product outcomes. I have worked extensively on the AWS infrastructure especially with the serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito and CloudFormation. I have also supervisioned the automation of continuous integration and delivery pipelines for some major organisations. I am well versed with design patterns such as Domain Driven Design & Test Driven Development. I have designed and developed major projects web products such as Crypto-currency Exchanges, Trading Portals, Online Appointment booking Services, TOTP apps & Online Real Estate Services.

Experience

  • CTO at SkillsDB
    Dec 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Leading the technological vision at SkillsDB to enhance our competency-based talent management platform, ensuring it remains at the forefront of innovation.​ Overseeing the development of advanced features like skills tracking, gap analysis, and personalized learning plans to drive employee success.​ Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align our technology roadmap with organizational goals, fostering growth and operational efficiency.​

  • Chief Software Engineeer at Series Code
    Oct 2018 - Feb 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    ⇢ Responsible for planning software design & architecture for state-of-the-art products. ⇢ Mentor and team lead of software engineers. ⇢ Development head on multiple projects, ensuring fulfilment of optimal engineering practices and design patterns. ⇢ Overseeing development of software products using modern & stable tech stacks comprising of Hasura, NextJS, ReactJS, TypeScript & Cloud Computing. ⇢ Performing hands-on engineering to solve complex software problems.

  • Chief Software Architect at Crossover
    May 2018 - Aug 2018 · 4 mos

    ⇢ Incharge of the CI/CD maintenance team for TeamCity. ⇢ Handled migration of a large range of projects from TeamCity and Jenkins to an internal platform. ⇢ Responsible for reducing build times of long running builds by optimizing build pipelines and infrastructure. ⇢ Ensuring up-time of a wide range of deployed company products and providing support to engineering teams. ⇢ Adding new pipelines and building infrastructure as per requested by engineering teams.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Auxiliary Teams Inc.
    Sep 2017 - May 2018 · 9 mos

    ⇢ Responsible for maintaining AWS infrastructure for company products. ⇢ Automated AWS infrastructure deployment and management for company products using AWS CloudFormation. ⇢ Worked on BMW Canada’s web app using ASP.NET.

  • Founder at Zarqoon.com
    Feb 2017 - Sep 2017 · 8 mos

    Zarqoon.com is Pakistan's first specialized real estate rental app, enabling anyone to post a property anywhere in Pakistan. I am the sole architect & developer for this product, building it from scratch to it's launch. I was responsible for all the tasks involved; from design to full-stack development, from server setup to continuous deployment and from database setup to third party storage & API integration.