Umair Ishtiaq

- Acted as team lead for 5 developers and maintained project schedules by streamlining tasks and making proactive adjustment in effort to provide efficient workflows - Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting and collaborated with project owners to set ambitious but achievable goals. - Introduced agile methodologies and development best practices to enhance product development - Demonstrated good hands-on experience Php, Python, Laravel, Node.js and AWS

- Multi-tasked across multiple functions and roles to meet deadlines and company expectations - Led team of 3 to work with 20+ high-end corporate clients from Banking, Fashion, Oil & GAS - Meeting clients to discuss and understand requirements to produce actionable plans and managed project in timely and cost-effective manner - Delivered performance-driven and user-centric websites using WordPress, Php, Laravel, Shopify - Managed and configured web servers, data backups and disaster recovery operations

- Worked with team to develop different solutions that includes CMS, main portal and extra-net system for agents. - Developed APIs to provide data to mobile apps and integrated 3rd party travel APIs with booking portal. - Worked in cross-functional feature teams from different countries and own modules end to end from inception through testing to delivery. - Worked with technologies like CodeIgniter, AngularJS, MySQL and AWS - Reviewed code, debugged problems and developed unit test cases for testing

- Managed front-end development, back-end development and maintenance, software updates and security patches - Worked closely with SEO team to implement SEO techniques that increased ranking of 35% of main keywords and boosted leads generation - Optimized speed of Cars portal that resulted in increase of traffic by 20% and helped in SEO - Designed and developed 3 new websites for company's ventures from scratch in WordPress

Freelancing is my passion and I found it very helping to grow my technical and programming skills while working on new things and projects everyday using new technologies, frameworks, languages etc that I never worked on or used before. As a freelancer, I worked for some big web development and IT companies and media agencies from UAE, UK, Australia, USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. I worked on more than 300 web designing and development projects to date.

- Developed 20+ web development projects on WordPress - Planned website development, converting Photoshop mockups into usable web presence with HTML, SASS, jQuery, Bootstrap and WordPress. - Quality assurance and cross browser testing

Data Structure & Algorithms, System Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Operations Research, Database Management System, Computer Networks, Object Oriented Programming, Data Communications