Yasar Rahman

Experience

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  Metikulous

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2011

  Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer

  I have joined the company as software engineer and then later was promoted to senior software engineer after 2 years. During my tenure, I had worked on various desktop and web based applications. I was also involved in client engagements and was deployed on client side in Saudi Arabia in order to integrate newly build application with the existing ones.

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  ServicePath™

  Oct 2011 - Dec 2013

  Senior Software Engineer/Development Lead

  I Joined servicePath as senior software engineer and later was promoted to development lead in August 2011.I led a team of 4 developers which was responsible to develop and maintain company’s core web based product in order to manage the complex configuration and sale process of cloud infrastructure. I was also responsible for integration of the product with Microsoft CRM, Salesforce and Citrix systems through SOA and Azure Service Bus.I acted as scrum master for the team in order to conduct sprint planning, daily standups, and sprint review meetings. I had also established company’s offshore development center in Pakistan. My responsibilities were to build infrastructure, hire and train new resources and introduce agile culture in the office. I fulfilled all my responsibilities in excellent manner and received an appreciation note from founding partners of the organization. Show less

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  GAC Group

  Dec 2013 - Apr 2018

  Integration Manager

  Led a team of IT professionals and developers to develop and maintain business applications including a world class integration platform which has transformed thousands of spaghetti Point-to-Point interchanges into a structured network, resulting in reducing the cost of integration by millions of dollars. Participated in defining the digital transformation strategy. created and implemented the integration strategy according to the Group's vision towards digital transformation which involves creation of an API led echo system through SOA, Azure API Manager and Mule ESB.Coached and helped peers to increase their performance and quality for their deliverables.Took initiative to introduce DevOps culture in the organisation.Led the team to develop various applications in the domain of finance and warehousing to help the business. Show less

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  Talabat

  May 2018 - Nov 2020

  Senior Engineering Manager

  Led multiple cross functional teams working on different domains like Wallet, Payments and Discounts.Defined OKRs for the teams and managed the cadence to match the OKRs. CxO and stakeholder management and alignment with the vision of the product. Define, develop and execute strategies around modern architectural principles like microservices and container orchestration. Coached peers to develop their capabilities around modern architectural concepts and engineering principles to produce quality deliverables. Improve engineering principles by laying emphasis on code reviews, TDD/BDD, CI/CD and IaC. Promote and implement cloud-native approach within the teams and organization. Contribute as an individual contributor on complex codebases and architectural frameworks.Reduced tech debt by extracted wallet and payment micro-services and deploying them on AWS cloud. Promoted the culture of MVP deliveries, AB testing and customer engagements for continuous feedbacks and improvements.Actively participated in hiring process, in order to acquire best engineering talent for the teams. Show less

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  Greentube GmbH

  Jan 2020 - Mar 2021

  Platform Architect

  Created Platform architecture teams of 25 engineers by hiring and training the individuals.Helped CTO to create alignment between operations and tech processes.Defined micro-services based central platform architecture for all the Novomatic companies with collaboration of all the stakeholders.Successfully executed of 2 out of 4 phases to develop the platform.Defined and implemented DevOps strategy for the platform.Defined and implemented KPIs to monitor the platform development and to provide visibility to all stakeholders. Show less

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  Retailo Technologies

  Mar 2021 - Mar 2023

  Director Of Engineering

  Directly reporting to co-founders while Acting as CTO and leading whole engineering vertical including mobile and backend development, SQA, DevOps, and data engineering.Provide motivational leadership to all the tech teams in Retailo.Assist Co-founders to set short- and long-term tech vision of the organization.Grew Engineering team size from 15 to 95 individuals in 1 year and organized tech in various domainsand cross functional squads to align with the business needsDevelop high performing, result driven and customer obsessed tech teams.Transform Retailo into product led organization by promoting collaboration among product, businessand tech.Organize all the tech operations in Retailo i.e. requirement gathering, grooming, development and release cycles.Promote culture of timely deliveries without compromising on technical architecture through MVP approach.Implement best practices to reduce tech debt for example TDD, Automated testing, CI/CD, IaC, SOA.Promote DevOps culture in Retailo to ensure reliability, scalability and security of the platform.Setup Data warehouse and ETL pipelines to gather data from different sources to promote timely datadriven decisions throughout the Retailo.Help Co-founders to define and implement the key business KPIs to measure organization levelperformance.Promote agile methodology in Retailo.Promote the transparency and growth culture through continuous feedback loop and training. Show less

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  Careem

  Mar 2023 - now

  Senior Software Engineering Manager