About

Waqas Hamid is an accomplished Engineering Manager with over 5 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working at Park+ where he is leading the Engineering Head of FasTag issuances, FasTag Recharges, Vehicles, Challans, CarTrade, Social Community, and other related services. Waqas is highly skilled in system design, data analytics, and algorithm design, and is an enthusiastic learner in these areas. Waqas has worked in several notable companies, including BrightMoney and Belzabar Software Design India Private Limited. At BrightMoney, he was a Lead Engineer responsible for owning multiple verticals in Backend Engineering and a crucial contributor to the Platforms Team in building the data platforms. At Belzabar Software Design India Private Limited, he was a Computer Scientist responsible for feature development for the backend web services, database architecture design, and deployments to their AWS infrastructure. Waqas has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, and an Intermediate of Science degree in Computer Science from D.A.V. Public School. He is proficient in several technologies such as Python, Django, AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Airflow, Big data file systems, Kafka, Fastapi, Elasticsearch, MYSQL, State Machines, and more. Waqas is an active contributor to the developer community, and his Github and StackOverflow profiles showcase his passion for coding. He is also skilled in DevOps, ETL, Postgres, Javascript, Research Scientist, Pandas, infra, Jenkins, Redis, Kubernetes, Search, and several other technologies. With his relevant experience of over 5 years, Waqas is a valuable asset to any team he is a part of.