About

Waqar Nawab is a highly motivated and enthusiastic Specialist Engineer at U-blox with a graduation in Computer Science. He has a total of 5.86 years of industrial experience in Web and Mobile Development. Waqar is a talented professional with high programming skills, short learning curve, and good logic building. He is dependable, innovative, and a team player. Waqar's current role at U-blox is as a Specialist Engineer and Atlassian Developer. He is responsible for managing Atlassian products, along with a team of two more members, installed on premises but moving to cloud gradually. Waqar manages the Jira product lifecycle, which involves keeping it up and running and on the other hand creation and customization of workflows, Permissions, Notifications, custom fields, dashboards, boards, structures, and many more. He keeps on extending Jira's default functionalities by developing in-house custom plugins and also manages several third-party plugins. Apart from the management of Atlassian products itself, Waqar has also integrated Jira with other systems as per the requirements of users and teams. Jira is integrated with confluence, JAMA, TestRail, Salesforce, and GitLab, etc. He has written groovy and python scripts to utilize JIRA APIs to extend the functionalities and fulfill the needs of Internal and external customers. Several automations have also been applied by him to automate functionalities based on events. Waqar has worked as a Java Developer at Purelogics, where he worked on two applications, Immobel and ERPFixers in parallel. Immobel provides a platform for Property dealers to connect with clients and have a deal and many other features. While ERPFixers provides SAP consultancy to SAP Users. He has also worked as a Software Developer at Accountancy Outsourcing Services, where he worked on Lahore Development Authority's Project named Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Waqar has a Master of Science - MS in Software Project Management from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, which he completed in 2020. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Honors from Bahauddin Zakariya University, which he completed in 2015. Waqar's tech stack includes AWS, Java, SQL, Web, Spring, Mobile, Salesforce, Software Engineer, and Javascript. He is a certified AWS Developer.