About

Abubakar Iqbal is a performance-oriented Senior Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience in the Fin-Tech industry, specifically in payment processing and branch-less banking. He has a strong background in processing large volumes of data and has successfully obtained high throughput of applications by smartly using multi-threading, controlling overall I/O operations, and memory management. Abubakar's communication skills are his strong suit, as he can naturally convey technical problems to non-technical individuals. Currently, Abubakar works as a Senior Software Engineer at i2c Inc., a Silicon Valley-based payment processing company that provides services in prepaid, debit, and credit card. There, he has developed and tested prepaid, debit, and credit card payment processing applications, developed a horizontal scaling framework to equally divide workload between multiple independent nodes, and improved the performance of major modules of the credit card processing system with massive I/O operations. Abubakar has also developed large file processing applications, schedulers, batch tasks, complex SQL queries, and an application for data migration of a fairly large bank. He has worked with Level 2 and Level 1 support teams for instant resolution of production-related issues and has trained junior developers and engineers, teaching domain, application architect, and coding-related skills to improve overall team performance. Prior to his current role, Abubakar worked as a Software Engineer at i2c Inc. and was responsible for R&D at shopistan.pk. At shopistan.pk, Abubakar was obliged to find loopholes in terms of bad design or performance and fix them, deploy applications, and manage Linux-based web servers. He was also involved in decision-making for architecture and technology stack for different applications and worked as a full-stack software engineer. Abubakar holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the University of Education (PK) and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. His technical skills include Java, Spring, Microservices, SQL, testing, and web development. With over 5 years of relevant experience, Abubakar is a highly skilled and motivated software engineer who excels at developing and optimizing complex systems.