Muhammad Awais

College Advisor

A college admission advising platform designed and developed from scratch to enable students to achieve their dream of getting into their dream college/university with the help of a Mentor

Role

Software Engineer

Contribution

Designed and implemented an efficient email campaign that sent over 300,000 survey invitations, achieving a high response rate and gathering valuable student feedback. Developed robust ETL processes to import large datasets of college rankings from various sources, ensuring that the information available to students was both accurate and up-to-date. Contributed to a 25% increase in platform traffic, significantly enhancing students' ability to find and compare colleges based on rankings.

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Connectly

Connectly is an instant messaging application for organizational communication

Role

Software Engineer

Contribution

Achieved a 60% reduction in query response times by optimizing the Cassandra Cluster with comprehensive partitioning and clustering. Implemented Dockerizing and orchestrated services, which reduced deployment time and ensured consistent application behavior across multiple environments.

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Zed App

Zed App is a cutting-edge ride-hailing application for the UAE region, facilitating customized rides tailored to users' moods and preferences

Role

Software Engineer

Contribution

Integrated AppsFlyer to analyze the impact of in-app UI changes on customer retention. Identified key features of customer behavior and achieved a 15% increase in customer engagement. Implemented the Pushy notification gateway to efficiently update customers about in-app events. Instituted rigorous system testing methodologies by collaborating with the QA team resulted in a 50% reduction in manual testing efforts and a 95% success rate for new releases.

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Virtual Studio

Virtual Studio is a cloud platform for game engine-based development, leveraging a custom wrapper over the GitLab open-source code base using GDK for enhanced version contro

Role

Software Developer

Contribution

Implemented continuous integration (CI) features within the desktop app using Electron.js. Ensured seamless integration and automated workflows, resulting in a 20% reduction in deployment times. Maintained the product documentation site, created with Nanoc and Ruby, ensuring up-to-date and comprehensive documentation for users, developers, and stakeholders.

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