Timeline

Experience

Employment, my own company, co-founded work, freelance clients and research, each kept separate. The dates come from my CV and my own answers.

Employment

Mar 2023 – Feb 2024

HBL MicroFinance Bank

Senior Software Engineer

  • Work: enterprise applications for core banking operations, API integrations between internal and third-party systems, cross-functional delivery, and secure coding in a regulated environment.
  • Integrations: internal and third-party services, including NADRA, 1Link and payment gateways.

Oct 2019 – Jan 2023

Adazing LLC

Full-Stack Web Developer

  • Work (CV): web apps in Laravel, Lumen, Flask and WordPress; REST, XML and SOAP integrations; MySQL design with secure authentication; custom Laravel, WordPress and Shopify features; Linux deployment and tuning.
  • Evidence: source code of Adazing's author, book, church and AI tools (2020–2025): Author-marketing SaaS tools (Adazing), Soundwave Generator, Video Counter, AI headshot platform (Adazing).
  • Integrations were freelance, not Adazing work: the CV's Adazing entry describes Adazing's own products, and the integrations sit under Freelance.

Jan 2016 – Oct 2019

GlowLogix

Software Engineer

  • Work: PHP/Laravel web apps; WordPress and client sites; APIs and integrations; screening, onboarding and training new team members.

Own company

Co-founded

Truelogics

Co-founder / partner (with Muhammad Sarmad)

  • Products: EveryCare and RideMe. His areas are backend/API, mobile/frontend and infrastructure.
  • Wording must stay modest: his verified commit share in the local repos is small.

Optimal Lab

Co-founder / co-builder (with Muhammad Sarmad)

  • Work: interactive engineering explainers. He authored the System Design, DevOps, AI Native, AI Automation, Tools and Frontend session PRs.

Freelance

2020 – present

Freelance

Software Engineer

Research

Education

  • MS in Computer Science, University of Gujrat, 2024–2026 (completed)
  • BS in Computer Science (Hons.), University of Gujrat, 2013–2018

Publications and certificates

Publications

  1. Architectural Similarity Analysis for Vision-Based Robot Navigation (2024). Farooq, M. H., Haider, A., & Ali, M. U. 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology (RACSIT-2024), University of Education, Lahore.
  2. A Systematic Approach to Generate 3D Path Loss Heat Maps for WiFi Indoor Positioning (2022). Haider, A., Farooq, M. H., Mukhtar, H., & Ali, M. U. 1st International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment. DOI 10.3390/engproc2021012106.

Conference

  • Presenter, RACSIT-2024, Dept. of Information Sciences, University of Education, Lahore (Mar 2024)

Certificates

Certificate Issuer Date Verify Claim
Traffic Sign Classification Using Deep Learning in Python/Keras Coursera Project Network Feb 2023 87LAHA65JBRA
Image Classification with CNNs using Keras Coursera Project Network Feb 2023 WTG8EVC678AX
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) University of Michigan, Coursera Feb 2018 BRZSJCCE43SJ

Open source

  • Upstream contributions: a merged PR to flutter_camera, two merged PRs to Muhammad Sarmad's cheez-api, and open PRs to premailer-site, html2docx and POSNIC: a client project.

Languages

  • English (professional), Urdu (native)