MUHAMMAD ASIF ASHRAF
Technical Lead
Dubai
Summary
- Accomplished Application Architect and Technical Lead with 20 years of experience driving the architecture, design, development, and deployment of enterprise-wide software systems.
- Proven expertise in designing and implementing cutting-edge systems using diverse architectural styles including SOA, Microservices, and Event-driven architectures.
- Deep understanding of API-driven architecture and real-time integration capabilities, empowering organizations to achieve seamless connectivity and enhanced operational efficiency.
- Highly skilled in Omni Channel Architecture, specializing in the creation of unified frontends such as Single Page Applications and Headless Web Content Management.
- Extensive technical architecture experience with major mobile app frameworks like React Native and Flutter, enabling the creation of powerful and user-friendly mobile solutions.
- Exceptional proficiency in Java programming language and Spring platform stack, encompassing Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, JPA, Hibernate, and related frameworks and tools.
- Successfully executed integration projects utilizing Enterprise Integration patterns and leveraging advanced ESB tools.
- Adherence to industry best practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Secure coding guidelines (e.g., OWASP Top 10) to ensure robust and secure software solutions.
- Proficient in messaging and streaming platforms such as ActiveMQ/Artemis and Kafka, enabling efficient data processing and communication.
- Versatility in working with both SQL and NoSQL backends, providing flexibility in database design and management.
- Well-versed in AWS and Azure cloud platforms, empowering organizations with scalable and resilient cloud-based solutions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Application Architect - FAB (Outsourced Consultant
Omnia FZ LLC
Dubai
01.2023 - Current
● Working as an Application Architect and Technical Lead for National Housing Loan (NHL) project.
● Responsible for technical governance of the design and implementation of the system.
Performing periodic reviews of the code and artifacts to make sure that implementation is complying with the defined architecture and its principles and guidelines.
● Provide technical assistance to the development team and help them to resolve any technical spikes.
● Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders for requirements elaboration and issues resolution.
Senior Technical Lead
Dubai Customs
Dubai
07.2008 - 01.2023
- Responsible for understanding the business and system requirements and producing high level and detailed level solution architecture and design deliverables.
- Performed a Technical Governance lead role for projects outsourced to the external vendors.
- Led various integration and workflow based projects, designed and implemented using ESB and BPM products such as Oracle OSB and Camunda BPM.
- Developed and managed API-driven architecture and implementation of backend APIs and Microservices
- Responsible for performing proof-of-concepts for new technology related approaches and ideas.
- Led teams of Developers across many projects, steered and guided them technically throughout the solution design and implementation and performed the reviews to ensure that the implementation is as per the agreed architecture and design
- Led the cloud transformation initiative, defined the strategy for transformation of existing traditional monolith applications into the microservices-based architecture and also defined the DevOps practices for moving toward continuous integration and deployment approach.
Senior Software Engineer
Datel Systems (Now Emaratech)
Dubai
06.2007 - 07.2008
SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
EDev Technologies
Karachi
02.2004 - 05.2007
Education
Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sir Syed University of Engineering And Technology
Karachi, Pakistan 01.2000 - 12.2003
Skills
Solution Architecture and Systems design
Enterprise Application Integration
Team Leadership
Communication and Stakeholder Management
Problem Solving and Analytical Skills
Architecture and Design Documentation
Collaboration and Teamwork
Business Acumen
Certification
● The Open Group Certified: TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2
Timeline
Application Architect - FAB (Outsourced Consultant
Omnia FZ LLC
01.2023 - Current
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
08-2022
● The Open Group Certified: TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2
06-2022
Senior Technical Lead
Dubai Customs
07.2008 - 01.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Datel Systems (Now Emaratech)
06.2007 - 07.2008
SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
EDev Technologies
02.2004 - 05.2007
Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Sir Syed University of Engineering And Technology
01.2000 - 12.2003