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Zahin Alwa

Zahin Alwa

Head of Technology
Punjab

Summary

An Engineering leader passionate about building scalable and reliable software that drives real business impact. Over the past 12+ years, I've worked across diverse verticals, including AdTech, MarTech, Travel, Fintech, and Edutech, where I've created robust web applications and mobile SDKs.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Technology

IION Digital Pty. Ltd.
02.2022 - 06.2025
  • Spearheaded the development of 5+ feature-rich web applications, serving a combined user base of over 200 paying customers and internal teams.
  • Built the engineering team from scratch, with an employee retention rate of 100% over 3+ years. The team size gradually grew from 0 to 10, comprising 1 senior frontend engineer, 2 full-stack engineers, 3 senior backend engineers, 1 QA engineer, 1 UI/UX designer, 1 DevOps engineer, and 1 Unity SDK engineer.
  • Completed the codebase and infrastructure migration of the flagship DSP platform, Immersiion, from a third-party development partner with my backend and DevOps team within three months. We scaled the platform from zero to over 50 clients and shipped more than 15 critical features within 12 months.
  • Architected the data processing cron jobs for the central reporting system that has ingested over 20GB of data to date. This system empowers our mission-critical campaign reporting dashboards, download reports, and schedule report features for our live clients.
  • Reduced the Dashboard and Reporting APIs' response time by 80% using a Redis read-through caching strategy.
  • Optimized the MongoDB monthly cost by 50% from $1,950 to $980 by adding primary and secondary indexes with the DevOps engineer.
  • Shipped multiple high-revenue impact features, such as an audio ad with a companion banner, and a native ad with GAM demand for the in-game SDK with the Unity engineer.
  • Actively shaped the product and tech roadmap with the leadership team over the quarterly scale-up sessions.
  • Performed extensive tech due diligence with an external company before an ad SDK startup acquisition by the co-founders.
  • Set up the complete tech hiring process for the engineering team with close collaboration with the founders and the talent acquisition partner.

Associate Director Engineering

Alchemy Group
06.2020 - 01.2022
  • Built a sophisticated, cutting-edge ad placement engine for web publishers that served over 100 million ad impressions and generated over $25,000 across 30 food-blogging websites in the first 15 months. Features included:
  • 5+ ad formats from Google Ads (Display, Web Interstitials, Video)
  • 95% average ad fill rate and 60-70% overall ad viewability
  • Engineered a swift publisher Dashboard to actively track their ad revenue and generate granular (country/ad format/weekly/monthly) reports with a cutting-edge Next.js tech stack.
  • Established the tech team with a retention rate of 100% over 2+ years. The team included 2 Frontend engineers, 1 UI/UX designer, 1 Backend engineer, 1 QA, and 1 Product Manager.
  • Collaborated with the co-founders to actively shape the product and tech roadmap.

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

INDmoney
11.2019 - 04.2020
  • Launched the m-web version of the desktop app by building a responsive, pixel-perfect user onboarding experience.
  • Added responsive and sleek product features for the dashboard, profile, and investment pages.
  • Developed a mobile-first hackathon web app within 24 hours, and earned 3rd place.
  • Crafted reusable navigation components as part of code refactoring.

Senior Software Engineer

AdPushup Inc.
02.2016 - 11.2019
  • Developed and contributed to the full stack of web applications (app.adpushup.com and console.adpushup.com).
  • Built reusable and performant JS and CSS libraries, UI components, NodeJS services, and product features.
  • Built a fast and scalable queue consumer service (QueueWorkers).
  • Made substantial changes to the core backend framework used in every production app (Old App, Console, Beta, AdRecover, and AdsTxt).
  • Led the Genie Inc. product integration with the publisher portal as a dedicated project manager for two years.
  • Gave efficient tech support to the Ops/Sales team for the core products.

Vice President, Front-end Engineering

Routofy
04.2015 - 01.2016
  • Developed and maintained the entire frontend of the B2C travel app.
  • Achieved cross-browser compatibility for the B2C web app by removing the Polymer framework, which played a critical role in securing a 50 lakh seed funding round.
  • Implemented complex UI features such as bus and flight seat ticketing systems.
  • Optimized the production build by 60% with the Gulp module bundler.
  • Reduced page load time from 10s to under 3s through various asset and build optimizations.

Javascript Engineer

Excelsoft Technologies
08.2014 - 04.2015
  • Developed cross-browser compatible features using the MVC design pattern and the latest JS frameworks, such as Backbone JS, Underscore JS, Require JS, and jQuery.
  • Core features built solely for the product:
  • Language internationalization for five clients.
  • Table of Contents for Every EPUB/PDF Book.
  • Front-end pagination for product widgets (Audio, Video, Image, Image Gallery, File, HTML, Tip, and Learnosity).
  • PRD analysis of each feature/module before agile development.
  • Active peer collaboration in code reviews, code optimization, and knowledge sharing.

Frontend Engineer

Information Mosaic
01.2013 - 07.2014
  • Built core features such as user dashboards, dynamic tooltips, accordion blocks, carousel sliders, and table sticky headers for the IMConnecting web app, used by five overseas clients.
  • Accomplished cross-browser compatibility for the IMConnecting app (IE8+ standard/compatibility mode, Firefox 24, and Chrome latest).
  • Consistently met ETAs for feature development and production bug fixes.
  • Actively collaborated with QA for feature testing and backend engineers for API integration.
  • Provided a detailed description with screenshots in every code review to the team lead.

Frontend Engineer (Trainee)

Information Mosaic
06.2012 - 09.2012
  • Built the entire frontend of the IMConnecting mobile MVP version as an intern, which gained traction from a big client, the Singapore Stock Exchange.
  • Rapid implementation of PSD to HTML for a quick design review.
  • User interface testing in various smartphones resolution, varying screen-sizes.
    Browser: Apple Safari (mobile)
    Smartphones: Apple iPhone (3g, 4, 4s)
    Web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JS & JQUERY.


Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Computer Science

Jamia Hamdard
Delhi, India
04.2001 -

High School Graduation -

Vardhman Public Senior Secondary
Delhi, India
04.2001 -

Skills

CSS3

JavaScript

Reactjs

Nodejs

HTML5

Nextjs

MongoDB

PHP

RabbitMQ

Redis

AWS

Engineering Leadership

Problem Solving

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Timeline

Head of Technology

IION Digital Pty. Ltd.
02.2022 - 06.2025

Associate Director Engineering

Alchemy Group
06.2020 - 01.2022

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

INDmoney
11.2019 - 04.2020

Senior Software Engineer

AdPushup Inc.
02.2016 - 11.2019

Vice President, Front-end Engineering

Routofy
04.2015 - 01.2016

Javascript Engineer

Excelsoft Technologies
08.2014 - 04.2015

Frontend Engineer

Information Mosaic
01.2013 - 07.2014

Frontend Engineer (Trainee)

Information Mosaic
06.2012 - 09.2012

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Computer Science

Jamia Hamdard
04.2001 -

High School Graduation -

Vardhman Public Senior Secondary
04.2001 -

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