resume.json

resume.json

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    "name": "M A Wal-Ikram",
    "label": "Making Digital Better",
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    "summary": "A hands-on technical leader and strategist with entrepreneurial flair and 20+ years of architecting and developing applications and managing teams in the web and mobile arena. With hands-on experience in multiple technology stacks, agile transformations and an in-depth understanding of the web and mobile industries and architectures across all major platforms, my recent work involves driving digital and cultural transformations at companies like Emirates, giffgaff, O2, Panasonic and MasterCard.",
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      "countryCode": "AE",
      "address": "United Arab Emirates"
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      "name": "Emirates",
      "position": "Principal Architect, Digital Enablement",
      "startDate": "2019-10-31",
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      "summary": "Engaged to overhaul the Digital portfolio at Emirates as part of the Agile (SAFe) transformation, I am tasked with setting and rolling out the strategy for how the Digital Ecosystem, the Enterprise API Strategy, Customer Identity and Access Management, and Online Payments at Emirates will evolve to meet the organisation’s strategic goals. Responsibilities include leading and guiding our microservices architecture and frameworks (written in Java and NodeJS) and containerisation of existing applications, web and mobile implementations, managing vendor relationships, and mentoring architects and senior engineers to enable the Digital Portfolio at Emirates to operate efficiently. My portfolio also includes the new Digital Payment Platform at Emirates which processes transactions of over AED 3 billion a month. On a typical day I find myself challenging existing processes and architecture to try to bring about a cultural change by being the change itself (and this involves contributing code where required). I currently lead multiple teams of 40+ engineers to try and move our digital ecosystem into the cloud native world using OpenShift, Kubernetes, Solace, AWS, Azure, lots of negotiation and whatever else it takes to get the job done well.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/emirates/",
      "location": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"
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    {
      "name": "7x",
      "position": "Director",
      "startDate": "2022-12-31",
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      "summary": "I built 7x as an API marketplace and platform leveraging distributed technologies to provide APIs and data to app builders across the globe. The value proposition of 7x to developers and product managers surpasses the API offering from large API providers like Google or Rapid API.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/7x-ax/",
      "location": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"
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      "name": "Blomstra LTD",
      "position": "Director",
      "startDate": "2021-01-31",
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      "summary": "As one of the founding partners and initial developers for this leading Flarum SaaS offering, I have been involved in trialling and selecting cloud providers and help setup the foundation to build, ship and deliver our offering on Azure AKS using Concourse CI and GitOps. I am now involved in making strategic technology decisions to support the growth of the company and step in to contribute code or help with operations and mentorship as required by the growing team at Blomstra.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/blomstranet/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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    {
      "name": "Islamic Network",
      "position": "Open Source Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-03-31",
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      "summary": "Founder and lead developer for the Islamic Network Open Source project (https://github.com/islamic-network) and web services (https://islamic.network). This includes a variety of projects dealing with prayer time and Hijri calendar calculations, various Quran digitisation projects and a purpose-build CDN. The software is used by hundreds of developers and the web services, which run on an ecosystem of globally distributed Kubernetes clusters, 30 million+ requests a day.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/islamic-network/"
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      "name": "giffgaff",
      "position": "Technical Solution Architect",
      "startDate": "2017-04-30",
      "endDate": "2019-09-30",
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      "summary": "I was engaged as one of the architects looking after the complete redesign and transformation of the giffgaff technology ecosystem from monolith to microservices architecture. This included all online systems, eCommerce, business intelligence / data warehousing and billing along with streamlining client-side technologies for both the web and mobile experiences. As part of the Technical Leadership team, I was also involved in migrating the giffgaff community (the UK’s largest) from the Khoros to Flarum.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/giffgaff/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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    {
      "name": "O2 (Telefónica UK)",
      "position": "Principal Digital Architect",
      "startDate": "2016-09-30",
      "endDate": "2017-06-30",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "I was the technical architect responsible for rebuilding the infrastructure and Content Management System (with Drupal and Acquia) that powers the www.o2.co.uk website for both desktop and mobile experiences. I led 2 development teams to implement Drupal as part of O2’s omni channel strategy. I was also involved in implementing extreme programming practices with the development teams to improve the quality of work. I actively contributed code on a weekly basis.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/telef-nica-uk/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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      "name": "Mastercard",
      "position": "Senior Consultant, Software Engineering",
      "startDate": "2015-07-31",
      "endDate": "2016-09-30",
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      "summary": "I worked with MasterCard teams in London, Brisbane and Chennai to help integrate and secure applications within the MasterCard Payment Gateway Services (using Symfony) ecosystem as part of their acquisition of TNSPay. My work involved aspects of software architecture, software development and mentoring and consultancy around better implementing SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and Continuous Integration techniques at the team level.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mastercard/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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      "name": "Vesica Ltd",
      "position": "Chief Technology Officer",
      "startDate": "2010-02-28",
      "endDate": "2015-12-31",
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      "summary": "I helped raise the initial funding for this start-up to build a pure SaaS based offering for museums and galleries to digitally manage and exhibit their collections. I was responsible for building software and infrastructure teams (based in Pakistan and Serbia), all of the architecture and delivered the application on time and budget. I contributed code on a weekly basis. In 2015, we decided to wrap up the business because we were simply unable to gain enough large clients to sustain the quality and pace of the product we wanted to offer.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vesica-ltd/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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      "name": "Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions",
      "position": "Technical Lead",
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      "summary": "•\tTechnical oversight and responsibility for Nature Publishing Group’s 30+ LAMP stack websites and applications\n•\tWork with development team to incorporate XP and CI practices throughout the development lifecycle\n•\tCoach and work alongside the Head Product Management and Scrum Masters to refine and better implement an agile approach for all LAMP development\n•\tTechnical programming training for the existing development team on PHP, JQuery, Git, MVC and OO concepts\n•\tPlanning and overseeing release management and rollout of developed applications across Macmillan’s Nature Publishing Group\n•\tHands-on involvement in all aspects as required, from coding to managing servers and CI / CD pipelines",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/springernaturetechnologyandpublishingsolutions/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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    {
      "name": "UK Home Office",
      "position": "Lead Developer",
      "startDate": "2013-10-31",
      "endDate": "2014-04-30",
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      "summary": "•\tStakeholder Management - Liaising with management and clients to scope projects \n•\tDesign and develop application architecture and infrastructure \n•\tHands-on development, mentoring and training other developers \n•\tProduct and Sprint backlog management \n•\tStreamlining processes and source code management \n•\tIntroducing and leading implementation and automation techniques in XP \n•\tTechnical responsibility and management of projects valued into millions of pounds sterling",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/uk-home-office/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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      "name": "Tripadvisor",
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      "startDate": "2013-08-31",
      "endDate": "2013-09-30",
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      "summary": "•\tDeveloped and deployed back-end tools to serve customer service and finance staff administer HolidayLettings.co.uk \n•\tDesigned enterprise level architecture for applications with RESTful services to use across multiple departments, organisations and platforms across the TripAdvisor group",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor/",
      "location": "Oxford, England, United Kingdom"
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      "name": "The Open University",
      "position": "Senior Developer",
      "startDate": "2013-04-30",
      "endDate": "2013-07-31",
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      "summary": "•\tCo-authored the Open Design Studio module for Moodle, a Pinterest equivalent built into Moodle courses (for general release into the Moodle community) \n•\tAuthored the Alerts Plugin - a reporting system to track and manage abusive content across Moodle courses and modules (for general release into the Moodle community)\n•\tDatabase and query optimisation to support very large datasets and thousands of concurrent users \n•\t Wrote first major unit tests for Open University contributed modules using Moodle’s new PHP Unit integration with a view to deploying TDD across all development teams",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/theopenuniversity/",
      "location": "Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom"
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    {
      "name": "NHS",
      "position": "Senior Developer",
      "startDate": "2012-10-31",
      "endDate": "2013-03-31",
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      "summary": "•\tDrive project management and architecture of new development for critical Pathways DoS system (used by 999 and 111 services across England) \n•\tUI / UX development for new, faster and more relevant technical search screens\n•\tRewrite and develop accurate search and data extraction algorithms \n•\tRewrite and develop new search system integrated with Google Maps API, Google Geocoding API, PHP, SOAP, OpenLDAP, JSON, SOAP, XML and Microsoft SQL Server \n•\tAssist in configuring and setting up  virtual CentOS environments \n•\tTrain existing development team on PHP, JQuery, Git, Google APIs, CentOS",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nhs/",
      "location": "Leeds, England, United Kingdom"
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      "name": "Vesica Interactive",
      "position": "Technical Director",
      "startDate": "2009-06-30",
      "endDate": "2012-10-31",
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      "summary": "•\tResponsible for performance of in-house and offshore development team\n•\tEstablished relationships with various data centres and infrastructure providers for highly scalable client applications \n•\tManaged and delivered projects for international clients like Panasonic, HotCam, RokPool, and boutique agencies like Walden Page Ballard and Bull Rodger\n•\tPrimary technology stack was PHP, MySQL, Drupal, WordPress, CodeIgniter, Symfony and Slim",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vesica-interactive/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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    {
      "name": "GTA",
      "position": "Corporate Systems Accountant",
      "startDate": "2008-04-30",
      "endDate": "2009-06-30",
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      "summary": "•\tStreamlining monthly financial close process between multiple systems / currencies / countries \n•\tDeveloping VBA / Excel applications to communicate with Hyperion / SQL Server \n•\tWrite procedure documents and SQL queries to import / export data from AS400 to JD Edwards to Hyperion to Oracle Financials",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gta/",
      "location": "London, England, United Kingdom"
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    {
      "name": "Ingenium Partners FZE",
      "position": "Managing Partner",
      "startDate": "2005-10-31",
      "endDate": "2007-11-30",
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      "summary": "•\tSetup consultancy with 3 other partners setup to provide software development services\n•\tWorked with various clients to design solution and software architecture based on Open Source applications \n•\tManaged client relationships and offshore development teams (in India) \n•\tDeveloped web / software applications / User Interfaces to assist offshore teams and make sure projects were completed on time",
      "location": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates"
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      "name": "TAEUS Corporation",
      "position": "Financial Controller",
      "startDate": "2004-06-30",
      "endDate": "2005-09-30",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "•\tOversaw accounting department of 4 accountants and responsible for company’s overall financials up to US $12 million \n•\tDevelop procedures and policies for SOX Compliance \n•\tManaged global forecast and budgeting and delivery of projects on budget for clients like HP, Sony, LG and Dolby \n•\tDeveloped architecture for in-house project management application upgrade on FileMaker \n•\tJoined as Corporate Accountant",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/taeus-corporation/",
      "location": "Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States"
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    {
      "name": "University of Colorado Colorado Springs",
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      "startDate": "2003-01-31",
      "endDate": "2004-06-30",
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      "summary": "•\tAnalyse requirements of new website and prepare requirement specification documents to get approval for new web site and Moodle based LMS \n•\tLiaison and work with co-developer, program director and faculty to successfully design, code, and implement the new web site and intranet \n•\tConduct classes to instruct and train students in the use of Microsoft technologies and basic web development",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-colorado-colorado-springs/",
      "location": "Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States"
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    {
      "name": "Zaki Sheikh",
      "reference": "He is an institution in himself. One of the few mentors I found who is not only technically strong but ethically keeps his principles first. He is one who can talk about any topic from any field and drives you through the process of moving positively. He has the best domain expertise in what he gets involved with from web and mobile development to IaC, cloud strategy to GitOps CI/CD and security. You name it and he can pull it out from his pocket it’s that easy. He is an out of the box thinker and being with him will motivate you to extend your horizon. This is not a recommendation as he doesn’t need one ."
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    {
      "name": "Hossam Kandel Mohamed",
      "reference": "Meezaan is simply a tech Guru, he is the person you want to talk to, if you need to understand something complex or get a deep technical opinion about a problem.\nHe is helpful, wise and very knowledgeable in many fields, and he sticks to the right principles and best practises, and in addition to his wide and rich experience he preserves a decent amount of his time for hands-on .\nIf you want to modernise your ecosystem, build a strong team and compete in the IT market, no doubt Meezaan is the man for that mission"
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      "name": "Daniël Klabbers",
      "reference": "I met Meezaan at giffgaff in 2019, he was leading a team of developers working on a migration to Flarum while I provided consultation. Nothing prepared me for this calm, patient and welcoming man. His excellent knowledge of development practices, combined with in-depth hosting and DevOps experience blew me away. His ability to get things done, while doing them well and balancing technical debt versus speed, amazes me still.\n\nIn 2021 we founded Blomstra together, where he single-handedly rolled out the infrastructure for our SaaS; from CI/CD, Kubernetes configurations, DNS, API interactions etc. He even took care of moving between Linode, Google and Azure seemingly effortlessly.\n\nSometimes you meet people who are key players at companies they work for. Meezaan is definitely one of them."
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