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Bilal Afzal

Bilal Afzal

8 years of experience Pakistan

Full stack developer with 7+ years of development & management experience in complex enterprise IT projects. Bilal has experience as a Developer, Analyst, System Architect, and a team leader of many projects & organizations. A skilled professional that has built entire apps from scratch as well as optimized existing apps that are efficient, automated and improve business processes.

He is an IT expert who is result-oriented, reliable, and dedicated to continuously learn and take on more challenging opportunities that are rewarding while at the same time provide value to the clients, companies, and teammates. He strives for perfection in everything he does. He likes writing clean, readable, maintainable, reusable, and optimized code, as well as solving complex programming problems and writing database queries.

NodeJS Vue.js ReactJS MySQL

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Sep, 2022 - Present
Love Bonito
  • As a full-stack developer, was involved in every phase of the software development lifecycle, from brainstorming and architecture design to feature development.

    Responsibilities:

    • Managing and collaborating with international clients and companies to develop their web and mobile applications.
    • Supported the team in grooming sessions and assisted the QA team in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with clients to ensure a smooth flow.
    • Collaborated with the product owner and project manager to identify and estimate business needs, which then translated into specialized software applications.
    • Provided training and coaching to team members and interns.
    • Developing and implementing new features in existing live products.
    • The project was built using technologies like: Node.js, JavaScript, Typescript, Microservices, Docker, MongoDB, MySQL, React, Redux, AWS DevOps, Git, GitHub, Jira, and Redis.
  • Technologies: NodeJS, Vue.js, SQL, Jira, Redis
Senior Software Engineer
Feb, 2022 - Feb, 2023
Climb Credit
  • As a Senior Software Engineer working on web based application with three different portals to facilitate schools and students to submit fees.

    Responsibilities:

    • Managed & worked with international clients & companies for the development of their web applications, mobile apps.
    • Supported team members while having in grooming sessions.
    • Supported QA for UAT with client to make a smooth flow.
    • Worked closely with product owners and project managers to define and estimate business needs and then translated them into specialized software applications.
    • Provided training and coaching to several team members and interns.
    • Responsible for the development & implementation of new features in many existing and live products.
    • Effectively managed the operations and worked with many different departments within the organization.
    • Involved in every phase of the software development lifecycle as a full stack developer i.e., from brainstorming to architecture design and then development of the features.
    • The project was built using technologies like Node.js, JavaScript, Typescript, Microservices, Docker, MongoDB, MySQL, React, Redux, AWS DevOps, Git, GitHub, Jira, RabbitMQ, and Redis.
  • Technologies: NodeJS, ReactJS, AWS, MongoDB
Senior Software Engineer and TechLead
Jun, 2020 - Jul, 2022
Core Direction
  • Working on a fitness base application in which users can book the slots for the class and join the fitness sessions, responsible to develop a payment module coupled with a booking flow that earned a lot of money for the client.

    • Collaborated & worked with several co-located and remote teams for the development and improvements of many R&D Projects.
    • Managed & worked with international clients & companies for the development of their web applications, CRM platforms & mobile apps.
    • Wrote backend APIs for frontend and mobile app in NodeJS.
    • Worked on Vue JS as Frontend Engineer.
    • Worked on the improvements of already developed applications to ensure optimal performance, quality, and accountability.
  • Technologies: NodeJS, MySQL, MongoDB, Microservices, Express.js, Redis, Vue.js
Senior Software Engineer
Oct, 2016 - Aug, 2020
Synavos
  • • Developed the backend and database architecture of the CMS and POS system for the currency foreign exchange. Multi-Region Deployments is integrated as well as wrote the optimized PHP source code with MYSQL, NodeJS, Laravel, React, and VueJS.
    • Worked and developed multiple CMS framework-based applications. Most of the applications were based on POS architecture. Managed the team of MEVN and MERN stack developers and developed multiple SQL and no SQL architectures.
    • Worked on Multiple Projects and managed CRMS, development process & Services for the Mobile App.
    • Worked on Backend APIs for mobile app and web app.
    • Developed Multi-language architecture for the backend services and the backend panel.
    • Integrated and managed about 20+ payment gateways with exchange rate features.
    • Acted as Team Lead & managed multiple teams on several projects including the Mobile development teams.
    • Making Architectural and business decisions (Micros-services, Multi-tenant Databases).
    • Communication with the client.
    • Managing deployments on AWS.
    • Working full time on Node and React, as well as using Redis, Mongo, Mysql, RabbitMQ, Node, and React for the project.
    • Mentored junior and mid-level software engineers.
    • Interviewing and hiring potential candidates.
    • Writing clean and optimized code using SOLID principles.
    • Worked with Several Databases including MongoDB, Maria DB, and MySQL.
  • Technologies: NodeJS, ReactJS, AWS, MongoDB, MySQL, Express.js, Jira, Redis, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Microservices

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science
2012 - 2016
Fast-Nu