About

Saad Hassan is a unicorn developer with vast experience in both engineering and leading small teams. He is a founding engineering team member at Propelld, where he has gained great expertise in building scalable systems with microservices architecture using Nodejs, Spring boot Java, and AWS cloud services. He has helped in scaling the system to handle loan book from 0 to 100 Cr INR monthly disbursals and has been the lead frontend and backend team member at Propelld on multiple projects. Saad has experience in building engineering teams of 15+ and has been fortunate enough to have a role in building team culture and engineering standards. He spends his normal day in 30% development, 20% taking decisions, and 50% mentoring. Currently, Saad is working as an SDE 3 / Lead Full Stack Developer at Propelld, where he is leading the backend product development team and designing loan repayment architecture handling monthly 50k loan repayments (approx INR 30 CR). He has also designed various core architectures like loan documents management using S3, communication (sms and email), messaging service using RabbitMq, Credit automation system using decision engine built from scratch, and helped in various 3rd party integrations like Offline KYC, Auto debit mandates, NBFC, and institution API integrations. Saad is also leading the frontend development for B2C and B2B use cases, where he has architected B2C and B2B frontends from scratch, helped in Javascript to Typescript migration of web apps, and designed various core features like Kanban Boards, Document Uploads, and Web SDKs. He has also led a hybrid app project using react native. Saad has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bharati Vidyapeeth and completed his high school education in Physics, Chemistry, Maths, and Computer Science from Jamia Millia Islamia. He has relevant experience of 4.86 years and is skilled in Software Engineering, Frontend, Backend, AWS, Redux, Microservices, Javascript, RabbitMQ, Typescript, UI, Infra, Spring Boot, Spring, Web, Senior Software Engineering, NodeJS, Java, React Native, PHP, Redis, Research Scientist, MySQL, MongoDB, and Android.