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Owais AliSoftware Engineer
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+49 176 29043239
Location
Elisabeth-Wolf-Straße 39, Sandow, 03042 Cottbus, Germany
https://ows-ali.github.io
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Education
Masters in Artificial Intelligence, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg
10/2024Cottbus, Germany
BS Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
08/2013 – 05/2017
Diploma in IT Entrepreneurship, Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
10/2018 – 02/2019
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer II, Creative Chaos

Working as a frontend developer on Foxtons-UK based real estate project. Technology stack include NextJS, Typescript, AWS, React Testing Library, Storybooks, AWS CICD, Tailwind CSS, MaterialUI, etc

08/2023 – present
Software Engineer/Session Lead Full Stack Nano-Degree, Udacity, Inc (Part time)

As a teaching assistant, conducted weekly sessions and provided support on slack to a batch of fresh university graduates. Helped with Python, CRUD APIS, SQL (joins, migration, foreign keys), ORM, Auth0 authentication, AWS CI/CD etc

11/2022 – 02/2023Remote
Freelancer, Codementor

Worked as a freelancer and got the opportunity to mentor other students and developers on hourly basis for $50 per hour across the globe (usually 15 minutes to 2 hour sessions), and worked on freelance projects spanning 1 day to 2 months.

03/2023 – 07/2023
Software Engineer, Din Global (DBank)

Worked as a Full Stack developer building a FinTech solution for international markets. Connected backend with SQL and AWS cloud services as well as integrated GraphQL APIs for communication

10/2022 – 03/2023Hybrid
Senior Software Engineer (Contract), Codup

Mentored frontend and backend teams, helped in React, Node, SQL and React Native projects, improved workflows, implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, worked on AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, KMS envelope encryption)

09/2022 – 10/2022Contractural
Full Stack Developer, Ricult
  • •Working on the mobile application on AgriTech to help farmers in AI-backed farming and also get financial facilities
  • •Worked on Python, and Ionic
    • 06/2021 – 05/2022
  • •Maintaining existing and building new features in the backend on Python-Flask with Sql database and Firebase object storage
    • Software Engineer, Bank Alfalah Ltd
  • •Working on IBM Business Process Manager to automate the business processes
  • •Worked on Power BI, VBA and SAS
    • 02/2019 – 01/2021
  • •Segment the most active consumers based on transaction volumes, transaction types, and card types using SQL
  • •Usage by merchant category analysis and reporting on credit and debit analytics allowing to identify top merchants based on the number of transactions and the value of transactions
    • Software Engineer, Lakson Business Solutions
  • •Building API module of micro-services architecture on PHP and Mysql and MariaDB to expose the APIs to third parties to bill their customers for OTT-TV services
  • •Billing the customers and generating invoices based on the packages and services used, using stored procedures, sub-queries and cursors
    • 09/2017 – 01/2019
    Interests
    Certificates
    Certificate of Mentorship-2022

    To guide and mentor participating teams in the 3rd Edition of Techwiz, The Global Hackathon Competition by Aptech (headquarted in Malaysia)

    IELTS Academic-7.5 Bands

    Listening: 8, Reading: 7, Writing: 7, Speaking: 7.5

    Skills
    Next JS

    SSR, SSG, ISR etc, File based routing, caching

    MS Excel and VBA

    Automation, Macros, User Forms

    Testing

    Unit testing using Jest. Integration and End-to-End testing using Selenium, Cypress, Playwright

    Python and SQL

    Flask and Django, with Mysql and Postgres

    React/Node

    Redux toolkit, Typescript, functional hooks, etc

    CI/CD

    Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, ECR, EKS, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, CloudFomation, Jenkins

    Projects
    Instagram Automation Bot using Python and Selenium

    Created an open sourced bot which helps users increase their followers. The bot automatically logs into Instagram, likes and comments on posts, etc

    Code is open-sourced on Github. Also wrote an article on this on Medium

    CareerPaths, Freelance

    A UK-based startup careerpaths.io to connect mentors with mentees from a vast variety of domains/industries and they can book 15 min to 1-hour calls. Worked on NodeJS and NextJS as a full stack software developer.

    2021
    CyberizeIt-Virtual Notarization

    Worked as a developer on a US-based startup which provides notarization services virtually and helps solve the issue of being physically present at same location in front of a notary. It was implemented on MERN stack

    2022