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Aquid Shahwar

Aquid Shahwar

Technical Entrepreneur, CEO, Tech Leader And Advisor, Software Developer
Wagholi, PUNE,MH

Summary

Tech Entrepreneur, Leader, Founder & Chief Executive Officer with 9+ years of experience, aiming to to obtain a leadership position within a growth-oriented computer science industry. Skilled in Team building, software engineering and planning, technology learning and implementation, project design, development and management.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages

Work History

Engineering Lead

Drivelah
Singapore
10.2022 - 09.2024
  • Conducted thorough risk assessments for complex engineering projects, minimizing potential hazards while maximizing resource utilization.
  • Managed multiple projects concurrently, effectively prioritizing tasks to achieve successful outcomes within budget constraints.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop tailored engineering solutions that met business needs.
  • Achieved customer satisfaction by diligently addressing concerns, promptly resolving issues, and consistently delivering top-notch service.
  • Building end2end tech for Drive Lah. Develop apps, build processes, train team, plan, prioritize and execute to enable company's vision.
  • Achieved customer satisfaction by diligently addressing concerns, promptly resolving issues, and consistently delivering top-notch service.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop tailored engineering solutions that met business needs.
  • Led a team of engineers to meet aggressive deadlines, ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality products.
  • Enhanced product quality through meticulous design reviews and rigorous testing protocols.

Engineering Team Leader

CAE ( RB Aero Group)
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2022 - 09.2022
  • Provided input to team lead regarding areas for process and procedural improvement and Tech development.
  • Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
  • Performed preventative maintenance to keep tools and equipment functional.
  • Tested and analyzed equipment design and performance feasibility to determine potential ROI.

Technical Leader

Ignite Solutions
Pune, Maharashtra
12.2019 - 01.2022

Worked as a Technical leader for Ignite solution and developed projects for customers in various domains. My responsibility was mainly to handle the project end to end, active developments, project management, sprint and scrum master, team mentorship, and client communication

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

WhizedIn Solutions
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2019 - Current

WhizedIn vision is to be the bridge between talent production and consumption in the software industry. It's the best and one-stop solution for companies to find the best, highly skilled, pre-trained, pre-vetted employees.

  • Evaluated policies and processes to develop and implement plans for improvement
  • Worked with executive board to determine values and mission and plan for short- and long-term goals
  • Conceptualised and implemented creative and compelling marketing programs, increasing revenue
  • Coordinated third-party vendors and client IT teams to seamlessly deliver effective solutions
  • Maintained thorough understanding of all key and current technologies, platforms and trends
  • Built, tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products
  • Maintained existing applications and designed and delivered new applications
  • Trained various candidates in technologies like NodeJs, React, Angular, Java, HTML, CSSS and helped them find good high paying jobs
  • Placed trained candidates from WhizedIn at some great startups and Corporates with alluring packages
  • Developed innovative sales and marketing strategies to facilitate business expansion
  • Maintained team efficiency by strategically delegating daily activities, monitoring output and rewarding positive contributions
  • Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organise workflows to meet any daily demand

VP of Engineering

ShoppinPal
Pune, Maharashtra
05.2016 - 12.2018

Shoppinpal provides software and services solutions to SME retails in operations and commerce(similar to Alibaba and IndiaMart). It also had tie-ups with leading POS system like Vend and LightSpeed where we use to deliver useful reports which these POS couldn't.

  • Develop and manage the complete tech solutions for Shoppinpal and manage the tech side of the business
  • Increased the tech team from 3 member team to a total of 25+ tech member company
  • To build a complete buyers and sellers portal solution through core engineering for our customers, find the solution to customer pain points through algorithmic knowledge and implement features relevant to them
  • Build robust micro-services backend architecture to support recurring heavy reporting queries along with handling regular traffic
  • Understand customer's empathy and drive engineering with continuous improvements and new tools
  • Build and deploy Serverless architecture for backend support and analytics reporting. Building and managing a solid technical team
  • Contribute to the community through my day to day learnings, open source contributions, and tech events. Help and train other team members and interns to build a great team and produce some skilled developers

Software Architect Consultent

Smartserv
Pune, Maharashtra
06.2018 - 11.2018

Smartserv is one of the recent and hottest upcoming startups in India. It's a SAAS company which provide back-office, sales & service solutions to other Companies with focussed technicians and customers.

  • Build Micro services backend system using Loopback, NodeJs, Docker and MongoDB, and trained team to continue with it
  • Database schema update and previous data migrations to support better and faster API's
  • Built a new application with React and integrated react into the existing application
  • Planning for improving the current code and making it more modular, by optimising the code and adding in React and Loopback whenever needed
  • Optimisation and Migration of code and data as needed
  • Training team with new technology like Loopback, Docker, NodeJs, React

Senior Frontend Engineer

Loginext
Mumbai, Maharashtra
05.2015 - 05.2016
  • This company used to provide logistics solutions between companies and their customers
  • It had more than 500 delivery people and more than 300 customers with more than 3000 deliveries in just one city
  • We had to build a web application and mobile application for our customers to come and place delivery requests, check and track delivery status, add all different kind of products and their customers and addresses
  • And for the internal operations team to view and track the route of the delivery, assign delivery people with minimum distances and manage and track delivery guys
  • We also had to build payments collection and minimal accounting interface to track and manage COD payments along with delivery guys attendance tracking and reports for the HR team
  • My key roles and responsibilities in this project were From planning to coding and testing I used to handle everything related to the frontend using Angularjs, React, HTML, CSS3 etc
  • Build the complete web application using the latest technologies for our customers and for the internal operations team to manage and track deliveries and delivery guys
  • Integrate live tracking of the customer using google maps APIs
  • Research and improve and implement a better design and UX for the customers to make it easy for them to use the app Training and onboarding of our customers and delivery people on how to use and manage our app
  • Integrate unit testing using protractor and mocha, for automation testing
  • Integrate CI/CD using GitHub, bitbucket and CircleCI

Web/Software Developer

AudioCompass
Mumbai, Maharashtra
06.2014 - 05.2015
  • AudioCompass used to provide travel guides to people traveling to different countries
  • You can download the app and just visit the tourist spot and this app will guide with all the necessary information, audio, video about the spot based on your location
  • We had to build the mobile and a CMS application to manage all the content for the app
  • This CMS app used to allow internal team members to add new spots and locations
  • Add data, images, audio, video for the places tourist can visit
  • Manage previous spots and update them
  • My role included developing both backend and frontend
  • I developed the backend using nodejs/hapi.js and the CMS application using angular.js for this product
  • Web Development, Frontend, Backend, Database Management, API creation and maintenance, Testing, UI UX enhancements
  • Getting my hands dirty by coding, prototyping and solving problems
  • Providing technology help to marketing and content teams for growth hacking initiatives
  • Helping manage the company's tech infrastructure in the cloud and Linux server management
  • Other activities as per the business requirements keeping in mind my skills, background and professional interests

Software Developer Intern

HuntShire Recruitment Solutions
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2013 - 08.2013

Developed Software Web Game development and ASP application for recruitment

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Institute of Technology And Marine Engg
Kolkata
05.2010 - 07.2014

Higher Secondary, Science -

Delhi Public School
Dhanbad
01.2000 - 03.2010

Skills

    Product Development

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Accomplishments

  • Developed an open source Elasticsearch connector for Loopback (a Node.js framework) which is now the official connector for the framework
  • Plug and Play utility plugin for loopback which comes with inbuilt UI for a password reset and other features
  • Setup complete microservices backend architecture along with new FrontEnd using React
  • Developed the complete CMS application for Mobile app content management at Audiocompass
  • Complete Buyer and seller commerce portal for Shoppinpal Bnext
  • Developed an interactive game for Huntshire for educational training of students in a fun way
  • Meetups

  • Along with learning new technologies and building applications I also love to contribute and share learnings.I have been part of various groups and Meetups and I also own a few Meetup groups
  • Loopback-and-Elasticsearch-Meetup-Pune - https://www.meetup.com/Loopback-and-
  • Elasticsearch-Meetup-Pune/ Crack IT or Hack IT JS-Coding-Tutorial-Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/Crack-IT-or-Hack-IT-JS-Coding-Tutorial-Meetup/
  • Podcast

  • You can find my podcast interview published about startups ecosystem in India and how to build a good startup culture here
  • Https://www.demandmatrix.com/podcast/
  • Https://www.demandmatrix.com/podcast/index.php/episode-1-fire-your-relatives-3/
  • Open Source

  • IBM recognition for Loopback open source developer - https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/f11b052a-03d2-4119-8113- 892aa54e4cb3/linked_in_profile
  • My Github Profile with all my contributions - https://github.com/aquid

Software

Web Application

Serverless Systems

Mobile App Development

Certification

Open Source Developer by IBM

Interests

Art and Craft

Team Building

Social contribution

Hiring

Training and Education

Work Availability

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Work Preference

Work Type

Full TimeContract WorkGig Work

Work Location

RemoteHybridOn-Site

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCompany CulturePersonal development programsWork from home optionStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingTeam Building / Company RetreatsCareer advancement

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Quote

99% is never 100%
Aquid Shahwar

Timeline

Engineering Lead

Drivelah
10.2022 - 09.2024

Engineering Team Leader

CAE ( RB Aero Group)
04.2022 - 09.2022

Technical Leader

Ignite Solutions
12.2019 - 01.2022

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

WhizedIn Solutions
01.2019 - Current

Software Architect Consultent

Smartserv
06.2018 - 11.2018

VP of Engineering

ShoppinPal
05.2016 - 12.2018

Senior Frontend Engineer

Loginext
05.2015 - 05.2016

Web/Software Developer

AudioCompass
06.2014 - 05.2015

Software Developer Intern

HuntShire Recruitment Solutions
06.2013 - 08.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Institute of Technology And Marine Engg
05.2010 - 07.2014

Higher Secondary, Science -

Delhi Public School
01.2000 - 03.2010
Aquid ShahwarTechnical Entrepreneur, CEO, Tech Leader And Advisor, Software Developer