Professional Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years in Microsoft-centric application development,
specializing in backend engineering using C#, .NET (WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET Core), and
RESTful/API services. Proven track record modernizing legacy trading, healthcare, and
industrial platforms while delivering measurable performance gains. Currently leading
delivery of a cross-platform encrypted communications product on .NET 9 and Uno Platform.
Agile practitioner with full DevOps (Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Jira) and cloud (Azure, AWS,
Kubernetes) expertise. Applies AI-assisted engineering under architecture, review, and
production quality gates to accelerate delivery without compromising standards.
Skills
Languages
C#
Python
VB.NET
.NET Platform
.NET 9 / Core / 8
ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET MVC
Blazor
WCF
EF Core / LINQ
Desktop / XPlat
WPF / WinForms
Uno / WinUI
MAUI / Xamarin
XAML / MVVM
Prism / DI
Architecture
MVVM / SOLID
Microservices
Design patterns
DDD
Distributed systems
Data
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Oracle
T-SQL tuning
Messaging / Cloud
SignalR
RabbitMQ
Azure Service Bus
Azure App Service
AWS Lambda / RDS
DevOps / CI
Docker
Kubernetes (AKS/EKS)
Azure DevOps
Jenkins
Git / Bitbucket
SonarQube
Jira
Quality / AI
TDD / NUnit / MSTest
Performance profiling
L10n / I18n
AI-assisted delivery
Work Experience
- Lead delivery of a cross-platform secure communications and collaboration product (.NET 9, Uno Platform / WinUI) backed by ASP.NET Core, PostgreSQL (EF Core), and SignalR across desktop, WebAssembly, Android, and iOS.
- Architect confidential messaging and media: modern key agreement and ratcheting, encrypted group distribution, secure attachment handling, and fail-closed client cryptography integrated with platform keystores.
- Implement REST and hub contracts for chat, voice/video call orchestration (managed RTC), contact discovery, and shared list collaboration; grow automated regression coverage for API, hub, and client layers.
- Ship OTP-first and federated identity onboarding, multi-language localization, and premium UX; keep living architecture documentation aligned to security, compliance, and product goals.
- Drive performance: startup/UI pre-warming, streaming data flows, CI-ready multi-target builds, and resilient integrations with key rotation and degraded-mode handling.
- Optimized back-office trading forms (WPF/WinForms), reducing load times from 45s to under 2s (95% faster), boosting trader efficiency by 75%.
- Engineered asynchronous ASP.NET Web API and WCF services, cutting API latency by 60% and supporting 10x concurrent event updates during peak periods.
- Developed CSV imports for 150 market selections in under 1 minute (86% faster than manual), ensuring data integrity and error-free pricing across all markets.
- Architected multi-franchise system integrating retail operations and supporting nationwide rollout, reducing franchise onboarding by 40%.
- Resolved high-priority incidents, maintaining 99.9% availability and conducting post-mortems to prevent recurrence.
- Delivered modular EMR suite for 50+ hospitals, automating scheduling, pharmacy, and inventory, reducing manual processes by 50%.
- Developed multithreaded MVVM back-end on SQL Server, achieving sub-2-second transaction times for critical clinical operations.
- Created DevExpress-based reporting dashboards generating 200+ monthly reports at 99.9% uptime.
- Packaged and deployed EMR suite via InnoSetup to 100+ client sites, lowering installation issues by 90%.
- Enhanced nano-optical metrology software, optimizing WPF controls and multithreaded algorithms, accelerating image analysis by 50%.
- Built interactive trench-width measurement tool and a license-generation module for secure feature unlocking.
- Architected core framework for multi-domain EMR product, enabling rapid customization and deployment across hospital groups with varying clinical workflows.
- Led EMR feature upgrades and maintenance, refactoring legacy modules, improving system stability, scalability, and team velocity.
- Overhauled DataCenter software, scaling capacity from 2,000 to 16,000 test records and reducing PDF generation from 100+ minutes to 15 minutes (85% reduction).
- Modernized UI with WPF and multithreading, boosting user satisfaction by 40%.
- Developed reliability modeling enhancements that cut simulation runtimes by 90%, transforming previously impractical analyses into routine engineering workflows.
- Migrated MS Access/VBA automation of UK Power Networks (Energy) to a .NET client-server architecture, improving data processing reliability by 75%.
Earlier Experience
Software Engineer
Vining-Hartness Company · Andover, MA, USA (Remote)
Built RTI educational software modules in VB.NET, improving test-feedback cycles by 60%.
Apr 2005 – Sep 2007
Software Engineer
Pakistan Revenue Automation Ltd (PRAL) · Islamabad, Pakistan
Developed toll collection and tax systems, processing 100K daily transactions at 99.99% accuracy.
Apr 2003 – Mar 2005
Programmer
Informage Software Pvt Ltd (ISPL) · Islamabad, Pakistan
Developed ERP modules (accounts, sales, HR/payroll) in VB6/SQL Server.
Oct 2002 – Mar 2003
Education
MSCS
Master of Science in Computer Science
Data Engineering and Intelligent Systems
Exec-MSIT
Executive Master of Science in Information Technology
Technology leadership and management
BCS
Bachelor of Computer Science
Core computing foundations