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Muhammad Aatif Ghafoor

Backend Engineer

Summary

  • Design & Development of Automated Customer Support System
  • Integrating with popular Social Media Channels.
  • Design & Development of Mobile and Branch-less Banking System
  • Integration with various Businesses / Payment gateways.
  • ETL, Dashboards and Business Intelligence.
  • Well versed in Security Standards like PA-DSS and ISO 27001.
  • User Trainings and and UATs

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages

Work History

DevOps / Backend Engineer

eBanqo, Inc.
04.2019 - Current
  • Company Overview: eBanqo delivers a multi-channel customer engagement platform that enables clients to provide automated support to customers coming from different social media channels, and also provide a single interface to manage all that
  • Design and development of the product backend services
  • Integrating various internal and external system components through APIs or other options like Message Queue etc
  • Planning the deployment through integrated CI/CD pipelines over the cloud
  • Monitor the system performance to ensure 99.9% uptime
  • Plan maintenance, upgradation and support related to cloud infrastructure when needed
  • EBanqo delivers a multi-channel customer engagement platform that enables clients to provide automated support to customers coming from different social media channels, and also provide a single interface to manage all that

Technical / Customization Consultant

Maison Consulting & Solutions
03.2015 - 03.2019
  • Company Overview: Maison Consulting & Solutions is a Microsoft partner for Enterprise solutions including but not limited to Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM
  • Providing technical support to the Dynamics customers all-over Pakistan
  • Integrating 3rd party applications with Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM using the built-in IDE, connectors, other tools and languages like .Net & PHP
  • Facilitate the technical processes involved in system upgradation
  • Maison Consulting & Solutions is a Microsoft partner for Enterprise solutions including but not limited to Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM

Development Lead

Activa Financial Technologies
07.2010 - 02.2015
  • Leading a team working on mobile banking and commerce solutions, the System has various desktop and web-based components, my duties include the design, development and integration of all the components
  • Development of an out-of-the-band transaction authentication system that works with various communication media like IVR, SMS, USSD and / or Web (HTTPS)
  • Development of custom middle-wares for system integration with financial transaction system using various protocols like ISO-8583 and ISO-20022
  • Managing the implementation of Activa's Mobile / Branchless Banking system at various client locations
  • This includes integration of Activa's banking solution platform with local and foreign EFT (Electronic Financial Transaction) gateways via ISO-8583, ISO 20022 etc
  • PoCs, UATs and client based customization is also conducted at client location under collaboration with technical and non-technical teams

Development Lead

Paybox (Pvt.) Ltd.
05.2008 - 06.2010
  • Company Overview: A Joint Venture with Paybox AG for mobile payments
  • Managed day-to-day process of translating product roadmap into feature sets, writing PRDs and user stories, prioritizing 2-week agile iterations, working hands-on with engineers and QA
  • Recognized gap in engineering execution on back-end product requirements and drove creation of new UI engineering group to evangelize accessibility, standards compliance, and re-usability of back-end
  • I was instrumental in integrating the middleware developed for Paybox AG to fast track the integration of their system into the ATM switch network using ISO-8583
  • A Joint Venture with Paybox AG for mobile payments

Software Developer

ENMAC Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd.
03.2007 - 04.2008
  • Developed embedded applications for portable devices and Smart Phones using C/C++
  • The application was based in C, then ported to MFC for Windows Mobile platform
  • My duties there were to build, enhance the embedded application, as well as switch the application to new hardware chips with improved Audio (MP3/WMA) and Visual capabilities

Internee

Fields Consultants Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.
08.2005 - 09.2005
  • Company Overview: Fields Consultants Inc
  • Is a niche and prestigious technology consulting services organization based in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
  • Provides world-class technology consulting solutions to its customers business needs
  • During my internship, I worked on the ASP based online Problem Reporting System
  • This system is used as an in-house bug-tracking portal
  • Fields Consultants Inc
  • Is a niche and prestigious technology consulting services organization based in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
  • Provides world-class technology consulting solutions to its customers business needs

Education

Bachelor of Science (Hons.) - Computer Science

GIFT University
01.2003 - 01.2007

F. Sc. - Pre-Engineering

F. G Degree College Gujranwala Cantt
01.1999 - 01.2001

Skills

Cloud Computing

Certification

Administering Microsoft SQL Server, 2012

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Work Availability

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Timeline

DevOps / Backend Engineer - eBanqo, Inc.
04.2019 - Current
Technical / Customization Consultant - Maison Consulting & Solutions
03.2015 - 03.2019
Development Lead - Activa Financial Technologies
07.2010 - 02.2015
Development Lead - Paybox (Pvt.) Ltd.
05.2008 - 06.2010
Software Developer - ENMAC Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd.
03.2007 - 04.2008
Internee - Fields Consultants Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.
08.2005 - 09.2005
GIFT University - Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Computer Science
01.2003 - 01.2007
F. G Degree College Gujranwala Cantt - F. Sc., Pre-Engineering
01.1999 - 01.2001

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