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Saqib Rashid

Saqib Rashid

Stockholm

Summary

  • More than 17 years of experience in enterprise application development, design and integration.
  • Oracle Certified Professional for Java SE 6 with score of 98 %.
  • Oracle Certified Expert for Java EE 6 with score of 91 %.
  • Well versed in Test Driven Development, Agile software development and Continuous Integration. Demonstrable knowledge of Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Micro-services, distributed applications, Message-oriented-Middleware, stream processing, secure coding standards (OWASP), Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure), Containers and Databases (SQL & No-SQL).
  • Great communication and interpersonal skills with experience of working in multi-culture environments (Netherlands, Pakistan, UAE, UK).

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Stakater AB
11.2022 - Current
  • Working as a Senior Consultant for Ikano Bank Sweden on implementation of enterprise event middleware in a micro-services based system.
  • Hands on experience with:
    - Confluent Apache Kafka API s - Producer, Consumer, Connect and Streams
    - Spring Boot, Spring Cloud , Java/J2EE, Junit, Mockito
    - Designing event based and cloud based micro-services
    - Kubernetes, Docker, Bash Scripting, CI/CD
    - AWS Services and Serverless Development
    - ELK, Prometheus and Graffana

Lead Software Engineer

Seamless Distribution Systems (Pakistan)
03.2019 - 08.2022
  • Worked on a telecom application that enables telecom operators to manage their agent distribution network who (agents) can make sales to customers
  • Application is composed of micro-services and is integrated with third party systems and payment solutions.

Solution Designer

Redmath Technologies
06.2018 - 03.2019
  • Worked on a portal application for a fin-tech company based in Netherlands
  • This is a cloud-based application, developed using micro-services architecture with Spring Boot
  • It provides a single point of access to bank accounts and other products and services from many banks and financial service providers

Senior Software Engineer

UWorx Services / PCMS Group
01.2014 - 05.2018
  • VISION BeanStore is a Point-of-Sale software solution that services multi sector, multi-channel, multi country and multi-tiered retailing
  • Service oriented architecture that allows the application to integrate with supply chain management, retail management and reporting solutions.

Senior Software Engineer

Dicetek / VoiceTrust MiddleEast FZ, UAE
03.2011 - 08.2013
  • MTP (Mobile Transactions Platform) is a product developed by VoiceTrust which enables users to have an online mobile wallet
  • Users can use this wallet to perform different financial transactions
  • Most common transactions are cash deposit, cash withdrawal, top-up from bank etc
  • This product also supports a complete financial chain containing merchants, agents, outlets etc.

Senior System Analyst

Red Math, Pakistan
03.2008 - 02.2011
  • I worked on a data integration and distribution framework for a British Bank
  • It presents a common interface to various front-end banking applications in form of Web-services, and integrates various back-office banking applications using MQs, FTP, SFTP, etc.

Software Engineer

Netsol Technologies, Pakistan
05.2007 - 02.2008
  • This project is developed to streamline and automate the business processes of GHQ Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Lahore, Pakistan
02.2007

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology
Karachi, Pakistan
08.2004

Skills

  • Spring Boot
  • Microservices
  • API Development (REST, SOAP)
  • Java 11 / Java EE
  • Test automation
  • Relational and NoSQL Databases
  • Apache Kafka, Connect, Streams API
  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • Containers (Docker & Kubernetes)
  • Elastic Search
  • Maven, Gradle
  • GIT

Education Certificates

  • Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE 6 EJB Developer (91 %)
  • Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer (98 %)
  • MS in Computer Science from LUMS, Pakistan (CGPA 3.71).
  • BS Computer Science from SSUET, Pakistan (CGPA 3.55).

Personal Information

Nationality: Pakistani

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Stakater AB
11.2022 - Current

Lead Software Engineer

Seamless Distribution Systems (Pakistan)
03.2019 - 08.2022

Solution Designer

Redmath Technologies
06.2018 - 03.2019

Senior Software Engineer

UWorx Services / PCMS Group
01.2014 - 05.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Dicetek / VoiceTrust MiddleEast FZ, UAE
03.2011 - 08.2013

Senior System Analyst

Red Math, Pakistan
03.2008 - 02.2011

Software Engineer

Netsol Technologies, Pakistan
05.2007 - 02.2008

Master of Science - Computer Science

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology
Saqib Rashid