Muhammad Iqbal

Summary

Experienced IT professional with over 7 years of experience. Past roles include senior and lead levels of development with ruby, rails and PHP. Last 3+ years have been focused on ruby/rails using agile development practices along with Test driven development and Behavior driven development as well as other Best Practices.

Experienced linux administrator. Experience includes Managing of oracle, postgresql, MySQL, SQL Server databases, and Amazon EC2, EBS, HaProxy, Nginx, apache, Pessanger, unicorn and other Linux/Unix resources

Extensive experience of deployment of web applications and databases on hosting servers.

Self-motivated, highly adaptable to technology changes, a quick learner, and a strong team player with great interpersonal skill.

Experience

Senior Software Developer

Ovex Technologies

(2011 - Currently Holds This Position)

Senior Software Engineer

Palmchip Pakistan

(2006 - 2009)

• Developed marketing web application (http://www.fireeye.com) using Pylons (python based web framework).

• Designed and developed some modules of an Intranet reporting application for a security tool (fireeye) using Ruby on Rails

• Installed and customized Plone CMS (intranet) for the client to use for documentation and communication between engineers and marketing.

• Design and developed a time sheet management system for internal use in office branches using Ruby on Rails backed with fingerprint identification device.

• Architect scalable Ruby on Rails based solution for meeting minute’s application (http://gminutes.com/). Designed production environment and data center architecture to support future growth.

• Designed and developed GMinutes Salesforce small version http://gminutes-developer-edition.na7.force.com/ in APEX, Visualforce.

Associate System Architect

Moobila

(2011 - 2011)

• Manage team of 3 technical resources, Business Analysis, Configuration Management, Technical Writing and Training. Responsible for team performance, reviews, career guidance and skills development.

• Responsible for developing high level deliverable schedule, estimates, detailed project plans and managing each team member to deliver the solution within a specified range of budgeted hours.

• Deployed and managed SaaS infrastructure (Web applications on multi-platform server configurations) on Amazon cloud.

• Architect scalable Ruby on Rails based solution for meeting minute’s application (http://gminutes.com/). Designed production environment and data center architecture to support future growth. Developed security module to protect from security vulnerabilities (i.e. CSRF, SQL injection, and XSS etc.). Used Sphinx for indexing/searching and memcached for cache.

• Designed database system architecture, manage production databases to achieve high availability and scalability.

• Installed, configured and migrated development, staging/QA, and production database instances across different environments.

• Designed and developed the new interface for http://gminutes.com to improve UI experience.

• Administered Linux system on amazon and on Slice Host.

Principle Software Engineer

Moobila

(2009 - 2011)

• Migrated version control system to Subversion, Mongrel to Passenger and establish new workflow & best practices.

• Teach developers profiling and code analysis techniques and guide them in system design

• Work with development team to identify coding flaws through system scans and code audits

• Define development processes that improve the speed and quality of development, testing, and deployment

• Designed and developed GMinutes iPhone (http://gminutes.com/iphone) and mobile (http://gminutes.com/mobile) internet versions

Education