SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of expertise in web application development with PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, AJAX, Bootstrap, Angular, REST API and JSON.
• 4 years of experience in Agile Development process as Technical Lead .
• Experience with multiple frameworks like CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Zend and MVC architecture.
• Extensive experience in architecting and developing CMS driven web applications using WordPress, Drupal, Concrete5 frameworks.
• Expertized in extending the functionalities of existing frameworks by creating plugins and modules.
• Experience in developing UI applications using HTML5, jQuery, AJAX and Angular / AngularJs and Hybrid mobile applications using Ionic Framework and Cordova.
• Experience with Front - End Development Frameworks like 960Grid and Bootstrap for building mobile-first and responsive applications.
• Knowledge of modern web technologies and techniques (Node.JS, SASS, LESS, ESLint, Babel, npm, RxJS etc.)
• Built next-generation scalable websites that look great on all devices, computers, tablets and Smart Phones.
• Expertise in web applications that required cross browser compatibilities.
• Experience in loading huge data into Oracle database using SQL Loader and executing jobs using GNU Parallel .
• Extended Knowledge of version control systems like GIT, SVN etc. Led the designing of repository structure for projects, following GitFlow branching model.
• Expertise with code reviews, performance optimizations and deployment management.
• Good understanding of Automatic Testing Frameworks like Selenium .
• Experience in automating repeated manual efforts by developing PHP and Shell scripts and using CI tools like Jenkins .
• Expert in documentation using MS tools (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Experienced in development based on Web Standards.
• Experience in Project management tools like Jira, Targetprocess and Rally.
• Have good organizational and customer management skills. Experience in managing scrum calls and have direct customer handling experience.
• Strong inter-personal skills, allowing good communication at all levels. Able to prioritize and complete tasks within strict deadlines while maintaining high standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Development: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Java, XML, AJAX, Smarty, MVC Architecture, CSS3, Chatbot Scripting

Frameworks and Toolkits: CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Zend Framework, TypeScript, AngularJs, Angular, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHPUnit, GE CDx, Webpack, Composer, Node.Js etc.

Mobile Frameworks: Ionic Framework, Cordova, Android Web App Development

CMS: WordPress, Drupal 7, Concrete5, ExpressionEngine, Chameleon, Navisite.

Social Media and APIs: Google Adwords and Maps API, Twitter API, Yammer APIs Facebook Connect, Facebook Apps, etc.

IDEs and Other Tools: PHPStorm, Eclipse, Zend Studio (ZDE), Xcode, Notepad ++, Atom, VS Code, phpMyAdmin, phpDesigner

Database: MySQL, Oracle, PHP PDO.

Web Services: SOAP/WSDL, REST interfaces in PHP.

Source Control and Code Review Tools: GIT, SourceTree, SVN, Mercurial, GitHub, Gitlab and Crucible.

Project Management Tools: Jira, Rally, Targetprocess, MS office etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Associate

Responsibilities:

• Coordination with business, requirement gathering, feasibility study and estimation of tasks.
• Build and Integration of different reporting tools to the intranet tools portal using PHP, JavaScript, Oracle and Bootstrap framework.
• Building automation scripts using PHP, Perl and bash scripts - to collect, format and change network devices configuration data which will reduce manual troubleshooting and client complaints.
• Consumed RESTful APIs for Ticketing Systems, Rally integrations, AdWords etc.
• Developed a dialer feed job using CodeIgniter and MySQL, which will collect leads from their lead collection tool and feed to the Avaya Dialer system.
• Created a handy Chrome extension using JavaScript to use with Targetprocess and published in chrome store.
• Enhanced existing Widgets performance by integrating Redis Cache mechanism.
• Integrated AdWords API using CakePHP to import offline conversions details from the OTS - a sales system to the Google Adwords for the marketing team analysis and tracking.
• Follows the system development Life Cycle to efficiently meet each milestone during the application’s development.

Environment PHP 5.6 and 7.1, Oracle, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CodeIgniter, Bootstrap, Angular, Shell Scripts, GNU Parallel, Perl, Node.js, Memcached, GIT, CentOS, Vagrant etc.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Major responsibilities include working with client to gather requirements for the web portal/application and provide architectural suggestions and feedback for building new portals.
• Participated in design and development of complex Drupal and WordPress portals and components, database design, integrating internal API’s with the system, technical support to the team, performance analysis and extensive documentation.
• Designed and lead the creation of an Insight application using CakePHP framework to effectively manage multiple WordPress blogs maintenance and upgrades from one place.
• Lead a group of 7 engineers in the design, and development of LAMP based software solutions.
• Development was done using agile methodology with daily scrums, TDD, code reviews and continuous integration using the SDLC process.
• Developed a complex configuration tool in PHP to automate the creation and configuration of WordPress blogs for customers which helped team to reduce manual repeated human tasks.
• Architecture of products catalogue and cart system for the customer portal.
• Led the development of bulk product import tool and structured product data for a B2B portal.
• Created Drupal 7 modules for integrating lead generation system with Salesforce APIs.
• Expertize in architecting content types for Drupal and WordPress based portals.
• Created custom OpenID WordPress plugin for GE user authentication.
• Developed Rest based Server API using CodeIgniter.
• Successfully executed maintenance and upgrades for Drupal 7 and WordPress based web properties.
• Created a Bootstrap based frontend reusable component using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Integrated interactive charts in PHP applications using Highcharts JS library.
• Build an internal hybrid mobile news app using Ionic and AngularJs framework.
• Created AngularJS modules, controllers, directives, services and used AngularJS filters for filter functionality in search.
• Interacted with native mobile functionalities like Geolocation, InAppBrowser and Notification services using Apache Cordova.
• Integrated GE Single Sign on using OAuth 2.0 and push notification using Google Cloud Messaging for the mobile app.
• Developed PHP pages enforcing the Model View Controller design pattern (MVC).
• Created multiple custom Drupal 7 modules and WordPress plugins for Yammer and Maps Integration.
• Developed Shibboleth multi sign-on WordPress plugin.
• Developed PHP components to support different Single Sign on systems like Siteminder, OpenID etc.
• As part of continuous integration plan, developed scripts to support auto deployments and integrated with tools like Jenkins and Jira.
• Worked on migrating internally hosted applications to AWS cloud.
• Mentored team to develop a custom tracking application to record GE confidential information that cannot be sent/stored outside GE network.
• Performance optimization, Code review and deployment management.
• Lead the efforts to implement automated testing using Selenium and helped testing team to integrate screen capture library to the framework.
• Worked on POCs to evaluate and understand the capabilities of different Machine Learnings framework for Chabot integration.
• Created a Single Page Micro portal using AngularJs, Bootstrap and WordPress API JSON features.

Environment AWS Cloud, PHP 5.4 and 5.6, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJs, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, WordPress, Drupal 7.x, Bootstrap, PHPUnit, Composer, Memcached, Redis, SVN, GIT, CentOS, Vagrant, Ionic, Cordova, Selenium etc.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Ignite, a Project and Task Management System as a lead developer.
• Database design and architecture of the application using CakePHP and MySQL.
• Task estimation and assignments, application performance analysis and quality assurance.
• Integrated frontend using HTML, JavaScript, jQuery and CSS.
• Created REST APIs using CodeIgniter framework and MySQL for Atlantis -Adopt a Fish Facebook application which used flash in frontend and PHP as backend.
• Integrated Facebook Graph APIs for the gaming app.

Confidential

PHP Programmer

Responsibilities:

• I have worked on twofour54 projects as lead developer in developing sites such as twofour54 intranet, twofour54 connect, twofour54 tadreeb, twofour54 intaj etc. As the lead developer of the team my responsibilities were database design, performance analysis and extensive documentation. I have also developed a Naviflix iPhone app XML generator during this time period.
• Developed an online creative community portal using PHP based Navisite framework, which helps to find creative people in the region.
• Developed and maintained multiple multilingual portals for the Twofour54 group utilized the PHP localization for multilingual site.
• Developed a user management system together with a messaging and friends' manager module.
• Integrated Facebook Oauth API, Twitter APIs. Amazon CDN service, Sphinx search, ShareThis API and jQuery UI drag and drop.
• Participated in the development of an intranet software using PHP based internal framework for that helps to manage employees of the company, managing their leave, time sheets etc. In this, different services are provided for users like periodic email alerts, internal newsletters etc.
• Participated in the development of a connect tool for managing different partners of twofour54. In this each partner have their own system to manage sub-users and their functionalities. Partners can control ACL permissions, news and comments of its sub users. In this, different services are provided for partner users like email system for internal communication, news systems etc.
• Developed a power outage map using Google map API for showing different power outage updates. Made use of Google Map overlay, polylines API to mark and show power outage areas and made use of geocoding to fetch geo codes from the given location.
• Developed a custom User Management system using WordPress user API’s.
• Developed a feed reader system using Zend framework, and used different components of Zend framework like zend feed, zend http, zend db etc.
• Implemented a weblog module using the capabilities of Zend based internal framework.
• Created a sitemap plugin for Navisite CMS using which we can generate dynamic sitemaps.
• Created an XML and web parser application using PHP Query and TMDB API to fetch movie and cast information.
• I have also participated in the rapid development of web applications using Content Management Framework. I worked on projects like SinoGulf Investments, DMCC, Brand Central and Karachi Electric Supply Company. Most of the developments were using MVC based architecture, AJAX and JavaScript plug-ins like jQuery for more interactive client side scripts.