Usman Khalid

Responsibilities/Accomplishments:
- System Architecture & Development: Designed and developed microservices using Node.js (NestJS/Express) and C#, achieving a 200% improvement in system performance and scalability.

- Monitoring & Observability: Integrated logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) to ensure system health, performance visibility, and rapid incident response.

- DevOps & Deployment: Containerized services using Docker and orchestrated deployments via Kubernetes. Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, cutting deployment time by 90% and reducing release downtime by 85%.

- Frontend Engineering: Built responsive, user-friendly UIs using React, Redux, Angular, HTML5, and CSS3 for customer onboarding and internal dashboards.

- Event-Driven Architecture: Used Kafka to manage task queues and inter-service communication, ensuring reliability, scalability, and real-time data processing.

- Quality Assurance: Established high-quality standards through comprehensive unit and end-to-end testing using Jest and Playwright, achieving 90% code coverage.

- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Conducted regular code reviews, introduced engineering best practices, and provided technical mentorship to junior and mid-level developers.

- Team Enablement: Delivered in-house training sessions and workshops on microservices, testing, and Kubernetes, fostering upskilling and knowledge sharing across the team.

Major Project:
EI Amazon Credit Card | Emirates NBD Noon Credit Card | Emirates Islamic Cashback Credit Card
Responsibilities/Accomplishments: - System Architecture & Development: Designed and developed microservices using Node.js (NestJS/Express) and C#, achieving a 200% improvement in system performance and scalability. - Monitoring & Observability: Integrated logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) to ensure system health, performance visibility, and rapid incident response. - DevOps & Deployment: Containerized services using Docker and orchestrated deployments via Kubernetes. Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, cutting deployment time by 90% and reducing release downtime by 85%. - Frontend Engineering: Built responsive, user-friendly UIs using React, Redux, Angular, HTML5, and CSS3 for customer onboarding and internal dashboards. - Event-Driven Architecture: Used Kafka to manage task queues and inter-service communication, ensuring reliability, scalability, and real-time data processing. - Quality Assurance: Established high-quality standards through comprehensive unit and end-to-end testing using Jest and Playwright, achieving 90% code coverage. - Team Leadership & Mentorship: Conducted regular code reviews, introduced engineering best practices, and provided technical mentorship to junior and mid-level developers. - Team Enablement: Delivered in-house training sessions and workshops on microservices, testing, and Kubernetes, fostering upskilling and knowledge sharing across the team. Major Project: EI Amazon Credit Card | Emirates NBD Noon Credit Card | Emirates Islamic Cashback Credit Card
Skills: Nodejs · TypeScript · JavaScript · MongoDB · Apache Kafka · Elastic Stack (ELK) · React.js · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Docker · Kubernetes · Micro Services · Microservices · Project Management · Agile · Scrum · Jira · Playwright · .NET · Microsoft SQL Server · Angular · Technical Project Leadership · IT Leadership · C#

· Planning, controlling and managing project execution to best meet project objectives while adhering to project scope, time and cost constraints.

· Conducting feasibility studies, analyzing critical business issues and developing immediate/long term solutions for enhancing existing business applications of the organization.

· Creating and maintaining detailed project plan that communicates tasks, milestone dates, status and resource allocation for the assigned project.

· Managing the technical development of Web/Client server projects in line with design specifications, feasibility, cost, time required, product and system capabilities.

· Delineating new business requirements/cases including finances approvals from Internal Board Stakeholders and administering project deliverables of requirements from system integrators.

· Regularly keeping the upper management abreast of status of assigned projects, focusing on the overall project schedule, budget, and resolution of project issues.

· Determining the impact of industry trends, new products and advances in technology to prevent obsolescence and assessing potential opportunities.

· Understanding of the Software Requirement Specification received from the Business Analysts and then designing and development of the Database and Front End using agile approach.

· Providing support to the end users by resolving issues faced by the users.

· Designing reports using Telerik Reporting tools and DevExpress reportings.

· Designing and developing Web Pages and Custom Controls using ASP.NET Web Forms.

· Understanding the user requirements and writing Business Logic based on it.

· Designing and developing reports using Crystal reports & SQL Reports.

· Creating database tables, Views, Stored Procedures and functions after analysis of the requirements.

· System’s support, modifications and adaptation according to customer’s requirements.

· Testing the applications and finding and fixing bugs.

· Troubleshooting and responding to the End User issues.

· Designing and developing Web Pages and Custom Controls using ASP.NET Web Forms, Telerik ASP.NET Ajax Controls, Flex and Action Script.

· Writing WCF Services to make Flex based UI communicate with server.

· Creating database tables, Views, Stored Procedures and functions after analysis of the requirements.

· Designing and developing reports using SQL Reports and Crystal reports.

· Testing the applications and finding and fixing bugs.

· Understanding the user requirements and writing Business Logic based on it.

· Wringing Data Access Logic Classes using ADO.NET.

· System’s support, modifications and adaptation according to customer’s requirements.

· Did R & D with the Azure Blob Storage and developed DLL to upload blobs on Azure Storage.

· Did R & D with the Amazon S3 and developed DLL to upload files on Storage using Flex and action script.