About

Firoz Shams is a passionate and hardworking software engineer with over six years of experience in the software development industry, specializing in backend application development. He is skilled in JavaScript, Python, NodeJs, Mysql, and Mongo DB, but is confident and capable of adapting to any stack, platform, or technology. Firoz is always eager to experiment and learn new things, and adheres to the best software development practices to ensure quality product development and delivery. Currently, Firoz is the Lead Engineer at Pluang, where he has worked with and led several backend application teams. His responsibilities include designing application architecture, assessing the feasibility of technologies to be used to meet requirements, making technical assessments of requirements, and planning development roadmaps. Firoz also closely works with the development team to ensure timely delivery of requirements and provides solutions to any technical issues. He evaluates coding practices across different applications to ensure standard practices are followed across the organization and oversees the maintenance of different applications. Additionally, Firoz evaluates developers and provides recommendations and guidelines for areas of improvement. Previously, Firoz worked as an Engineering Manager at Evaly, where he collaborated with different business teams, partners, and third-party vendors to evaluate application requirements and determine delivery deadlines. He also worked with product managers to ensure seamless and on-time delivery of products and features. Firoz ensured a collaborative and cohesive environment in the entire engineering team to maximize output and also carried out the roles and responsibilities of technical lead. Prior to Evaly, Firoz worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Ekkbaz, where he worked primarily on the backend consisting of multiple microservices. His responsibilities included design, development, and documentation of backend microservices, collaborating with the front-end team on integration of the services with the Mobile Applications. The technologies used in Ekkbaz were NodeJS, Javascript, Git, Linux, Microsoft Azure, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, and Cloud Firestore. Firoz holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, where he graduated in 2015. His relevant experience in the field of Backend, Senior Software Engineer, NodeJS, Software Engineer, Django, Javascript, MongoDB, MySQL, Microservices, RabbitMQ, Azure, Integration, Mobile, and Frontend is 7.70 years.