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Basit Ali

Software Engineer

Education

BS in Software Engineering

University of Karachi
2012 - 2015

Intermediate (Pre-Engineering)

PECHS College Karachi
2006 - 2008

Languages

Urdu (Native)

English (Professional)

Interests

Digital Painting

Football

Swimming

Games

Career Profile

I'm passionate about programming for its thrill of problem solving and to create something new and future proof. I love exploring and learning new technologies, frameworks and programming languages. Writing efficient & low latency code, keeping it simple, and using best coding and architectural practices are my priorities when programming.

Experiences

Senior Software Engineer

April 2019 - Present

Oraan, Karachi

Oraan is a fin-tech startup that is bridging the gap between conventional saving mechanisms and financial technology to provide simpler financial access and money-management tools.
My role at Oraan is to work on Software Architecture and implement it on backend using following technologies:

Senior Application Engineer

May 2017 - April 2019

Health at Hand, Dubai

Health at Hand is a Dubai based telehealth startup where patients can take remote video consultations with doctors. I worked as the Lead Android Developer and helped my team solving critical problems like VoIP and creating a successful product.

Senior Application Engineer

April 2016 - April 2019

NextGenI, Karachi

Next Generation Innovations is a technology solutions company specializing in startups where I worked as Senior Android Developer on delivering various interesting and challenging products.

Founding CTO

June 2015 - April 2016

Nest I/O, Karachi

Incubated at Nest I/O for IOTechnica, a startup on IoT and home automation co-founded by me.

Projects

Projects I worked on as an undergraduate and freelance

PowerBot

RuneScape is one of the most famous MMORPG (game), I developed scripts using java SE to be used by PowerBot to play RuneScape game as AI/bot for a freelance client.

Zohno

Automation software for generating reports and stats for Active Directory, Exchange, Lync, Salesforce, Office 365 and WebEx and export it to excel or view it. Developed using .NET and C#.

MyCam

Desktop app to record and save video through web cam. Developed using .NET and C#.

AWS CloudWatchLogs

Desktop app to save specific logs to a text file from AWS CloudWatchLogs.

Kidsway

Provides a platform for van drivers and parents where they can see and track their kids and their school vans. Developed using Java/Spring and WebSocket API.

Cafuné

App to share pictures, chat and more.

Skills & Proficiency

Java & Spring Boot
Microservices
Kubernetes (K8s)
Apache Kafka
Distributed Systems
Android
Hibernate
GCP & AWS
JavaScript
HTML5 & CSS
Illustrator & Photoshop