About

Umar Adil is a seasoned tech professional with over 16 years of experience in the Indian software startup ecosystem. He has a proven track record of driving multiple products from 0 to 1, with both success stories and fail stories. Umar is skilled in PHP programming language and is a strong program and project management professional with a Master's Degree in Information Technology from Punjab Technical University. Currently, Umar is working as a Team Leader - PHP at findingdoc, where he is responsible for creating REST APIs for mobile apps and frontend developers. He works closely with the product manager to evaluate product needs, provide business solutions, and set functionality/module/time expectations. Umar is also responsible for collecting, understanding, and documenting product requirements, translating them into functional and system design specifications, and overseeing system testing, implementation, and post-implementation review. Prior to findingdoc, Umar worked as a Team Leader - PHP at adamclick, where he managed a team of 15 members, including remote CS-Cart developers, content writers, and DevOps engineers. He developed CS-Cart add-ons, managed the designing and digital marketing team using JIRA, and set the roadmap for and built several core modules of the CS-Cart product. Umar also reviewed the CS-Cart add-ons developed by other team members and worked closely with the DevOps team to set up the AWS servers for all development and production environments. Umar's past experience also includes working as a Senior PHP Developer at Socrato, where he joined as a freelancer with a small freelance job to change the UI of the end-user website. After the successful deployment of the end-user website, he was given the task to review and suggest the technical aspects of the Socrato SAAS software and suggest a way to upgrade the software from PHP 4 to PHP 6 version without hampering the current active userbase of nearly 70K. His project upgrade proposal and technical document were approved, and he converted that small technical support freelance task into six years of a full-time job with the company. Umar's key skills include PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, CodeIgniter, Laravel, CakePHP, CS-Cart, WordPress, Drupal, Git, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, JQuery, Jira, project planning and development, project time and cost estimation, performance evaluations, code reviews, and cloud server AWS. He is also experienced in client communication and requirement gathering, reporting and deployment, code review, and