Muhammad Talal Khan

Staff Software Engineer, Techwards

Jun 2020 — Present

• Enhanced efficiency of a SaaS security product (CloudSoc) and an educational administrative product (Stellic) through up-gradation of depreciated back-end services i.e., Python (2.7), Django (0.9), celery and related dependencies with modern development standards. Allowing teams to increase products’ functionality and performance up to 100%, and adding more years to the products’ shelf-life.
• Lead a team of engineers for designing and developing the baseline architecture of a Seed Project: that provides a pre-built template to the users with advance features integrated i.e., multi-tenancy, two factor authentication, auditing, mobile/email verification etc.
• Designed and developed the back-end architecture of a security auditor app (PurePrivacy) using Flask, Python, PostgreSQL, and RESTful APIs.
• Worked on automating the order purchasing of an e-commerce
  product, enabling customers to purchase products from different Shopify/ WooCommerce stores using a single checkout mechanism.
• Promoted experience with GCP, cloud computing and micro-services.
• Participated in team building and provided guidance to junior team members to improve overall team’s performance.
• Documented and presented knowledge to other engineers about the processes and on-going projects. Experienced in training and on-boarding new employees.

Key achievement:

• Delivered apps with 100% on-time record and meeting customers’ satisfaction.

Software Development Engineer, Astica (Symantec) 

Apr 2018 — Jun 2020

• Worked as a Full Stack Engineer on a cloud based security product (CASB) that provides full life cycle of security for SaaS applications using APIs.
• Investigated Facebook, Dropbox and multiple other SaaS apps and incorporated them as Securlets into the system using SaaS APIs, which eventually increased product sales and functionality.
• Design and developed customised advance search filters on priority basis, which resulted in 7% more customer retention than the previous quarter and helped retaining some of the major clients of the product.
• Presented demos of the implemented features to QA teams and Management leads.
• Developed code, system design and test/QA plans for all solutions of the product and demonstrated new features to the QA/Management leads.

Key achievements:

• WOW LEVEL 2 Award - Awarded with `WOW level 2 award` as an appreciation by the manager.
• Got retention of 6 more months even after company closed its regional offices due to acquisition.

Software Engineer, Axact

Jun 2017 — Mar 2018

• Worked on RMS (Reel Matching Software) that is used for sampling and autonomous detection of advertisement segments on the reel. Enhanced performance by speeding up the sampling process 4x times through multi-threading.
• Designed and developed multiple new features for the project (RMS) and made them available to the support teams within deadlines.
• Brainstormed the architectural design of a teleprompter for the company's owned media house. Planned and designed the processes for it and developed the software using C# .Net and AngularJS.
• Handling back-end and front-end processes along with maintenance and modification of the developed systems. Improved performance and re-usability of the systems through implementation of SOLID principles.

Key achievements:

• PLATINUM Award - Got the `Platinum Award` for outstanding performance in the last quarter at Axact House.
• PERFORMER Award - x2 times `Performer Award` winner at Axact House.

MS (Data Science), NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi
2020 — 2022

BS (Computer Science), FAST - National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES)
2013 — 2017