Work Experience
Jul 2017 – Jan 2025
Software Engineer III
Transitioned from mid- to team leaderdship role
▪ Responsible for a small group of business-critical micro-services and a back-office web application
▪ Refactored and revamped services for cost-reduction and in fulfilment of cloud-native modernization effort
▪ Facilitated two-fold increase in team performance and reduced PROD incidents by 90%
▪ Worked with Java 11 (/17), AngularJS, React JS, Bash and Groovy scripting, Oracle 19c, Kafka, SAP BO, and Python
▪ Served as JPMC Glasgow Technology Center Ignite Machine Learning Community of Practice Co-Lead (2019-21)
Feb 2015 – 2017
Product Engineer (aka Software Engineer) at (Transfer)Wise, Estonia
Mid-level engineering commitment introducing software engineering practices in a startup culture
▪ Worked on partner integrations for to-AED, to-COP, to-ZAR and to/from-CAD money transfer feature
▪ Gained (further) hands-on experience in Grails, Java 8, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, Slack Integrations and Looker
Sep 2013 – Jan 2015
Software Developer at Mindware OÜ (now Aktors OÜ), Estonia
Junior-level engagement with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with multiple technologies and CI/CD
▪ Azerbaijani Digital Portal: Implemented Java EE7, Spring, JOOQ, and MySQL based server side for authorized signing and sharing of e-documents, and workflow integration.
▪ Estonian State Treasury: Implemented Java EE 5, Struts2, Spring, and Hibernate based server side for new features, changes and bugs pertaining to interest generation and bank reports.
▪ Payments Clearance and Settlement System: Designed and implemented Java 7, SonicMQ 7.5, Quartz, and Oracle 11g based scalable channel server for digitally signed (jdigidoc) communication on payment clearance and settlement between proprietary banking system and SEB (Swedish Bank).
Aug 2008 – 2010
Software Engineer at InterActive Group, Islamabad
Entry-level development effort on confidential enterprise integration projects for classified clients
▪ Hands-on industry introduction to Java EE 5, Hibernate 3.0, Oracle 10g, and SUN Virtualization Technologies
▪ Gained functional knowledge on Java and SQL performance optimization
▪ Performed comparative analysis and tested software obfuscation solutions
Jul 2005 – 2008
Software / Business Analyst at InterActive Group, Islamabad
Earned Excellence Award in Development Consultancy
Performed software requirement (gap) analysis for multiple e-government projects
▪ required client interaction for as-is/to-be processes’ analysis and requirements’ gathering
▪ liaised with development team for technical use cases’ elicitation and backend scripting for Oracle 9i
Delivered as Lead Analyst for John Hopkins‘ Project on Child Immunization Surveillance
▪ worked with John Hopkins’ team on requirements’ elicitation and design decisions
▪ represented development team for reporting on project progress and product demonstration
Delivered as Lead Analyst for feasibility report: Market analysis for data-centric services
▪ worked with business on financial feasibility of inhouse datacenter as-a-service projec
Aug 2015 – May 2016 (01 yr)
Final Year Supervisor at NUCES (aka FAST-NU), Islamabad
Served as external/industry mentor for final year BS(CS) students
▪ Supervised a team of three on a year-long capstone project “Chopaal”
▪ Proposed project idea, imparted functional knowledge on selected technologies and industry standards
▪ Facilitated students in earning an A on both end-of-semester submissions
Sep 2012 – Sep 2013 (01 yr)
Assistant of Informatics at University of Tartu, Estonia
Part-time contract during PhD enrolment
▪ Assisted with (under)graduate courses in Information Systems, System Administration, and Databases
▪ Responsible for running hands-on sessions (labs), formulating and grading quizzes and assignments
▪ Delivered lecture(s) on select topic(s)
Aug 2011 – Jun 2012 (01 yr)
Teaching Assistant at University of Tartu, Estonia
Part-time commitment during graduate studies
▪ Assisted with (under) graduate courses in Information Systems and Databases
▪ Responsible for running hands-on sessions (labs), formulating and grading quizzes and assignments
▪ Delivered lecture(s) on select topic(s)
Mar 2007 – 2010 (03 yrs)
Lecturer BS(CS) at IMCG St. 25 F-6/2, Islamabad
Visiting faculty member at alma mater for undergraduate degree offered in affiliation with the University of Punjab
▪ Responsible for undergraduate courses in Calculus II, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Organization and Assembly Language, Numerical Analysis, and Analysis of Algorithms
▪ Delivered 100% pass rate with 50% of the students earning above 90% score
▪ Earned recognition from Ministry of Education for initiating and running Computer Science department’s Quarterly Journal “The Digital Patrol”
Aug 2003 – May 2007 (04 yrs)
Teaching Assistant at NUCES (aka FAST-NU), Islamabad
Part-time commitment during undergraduate studies and after graduation
▪ Assisted with undergraduate coursework in Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Database Management Systems, Distributed Computing, and Artificial Intelligence
▪ Responsible for running hands-on sessions (labs), formulating and grading quizzes and assignments, and mentoring on semester-end projectsVisiting faculty member at alma mater for undergraduate degree offered in affiliation with the University of Punjab
▪ Responsible for undergraduate courses in Calculus II, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Organization and Assembly Language, Numerical Analysis, and Analysis of Algorithms
▪ Delivered 100% pass rate with 50% of the students earning above 90% score
▪ Earned recognition from Ministry of Education for initiating and running Computer Science department’s Quarterly Journal “The Digital Patrol”
Jun – Nov 2011 (0.5 yr)
Intern IT Programmer at University of Tartu, Estonia
Email Management in InferatoFS: Implemented Python scripts for transforming email content into proprietary format for efficient search and hassle-free retrieval, integrated the scripts in existing Integrative Graph based File Systems (InferatoFS) in Ubuntu environment, and tested the implementation on CMU’s Enron Email Dataset.
Jun – Aug 2003 (0.2 yr)
Intern at Academy of Educational Planning and Management, Ministry of Education, Islamabad
Completed dynamic portion of website: aepam.gov.pk using ASP, VB Script, Java Script, and MS Access
Scholarly Endeavours
Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Issued Sep 2024
MBA Essentials
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Issued Feb 2023
Oxford Executive Leadership
University of Oxford
Issued Dec 2022
Digital Disruption: Digital Transformation Strategies
University of Cambridge
Issued May 2020
Project Management Diploma
C@SE, Islamabad
Issued Aug 2006
Professional Scrum Product Owner I
Issued Jan 2024
Professional Scrum Master (PSM) I
Issued Feb 2022
Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 7 Programmer
Issued Dec 2014
10th Estonian Summer School on Computer Science and Systems, Otepää 2011
■ Lock-Free Shared Data Structures by Eric Ruppert
■ Heuristical approximation of functions by Dietmar Maringer
■ eVoting and security by Peter Ryan
■ Coordination, Reo, and software composition by Farhad Arbab
Workshop Series on Building Secure and Highly Available Environments
Systems Research Group, NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Issued May 2010
Linux Security Workshop
NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Issued Apr 2010
Project Human Resource Management Workshop
Islamabad Movers and Shakers Campus Club
Issued Feb 2010
Melvin Jone’s Leadership Skills Training Program
Islamabad Crescent Lions Club
Issued Jan 2010
Ethical Hacking Workshop
Bahria University, Islamabad
Issued Oct 2009
Graphic Design Workshop
Hunerkada College of Visual & Performing Arts
Issued Jul 2006
3D Workshop
Hunerkada College of Visual & Performing Arts
Issued Jul 2006
First National Workshop on Image Processing & Applications
Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology
Issued Dec 2004
Short Course on Computer Graphics and Multimedia
National University of computer and Emerging Sciences
Issued Summer 2002
Training Certificate in I*EARN Network as Educational Tool
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs
Issued Jan 2000
Title: Service Integration for Biometric Authentication
Abstract: Multimodal biometric authentication systems offer immunity to the threats imposed by unimodal biometric systems. However, this comes at significantly higher development and adaptation costs. In this paper we introduce an approach that allows automatic configuration and deployment of heterogeneous biometric systems for different business processes and related environments. The need for development and integration of scenario-specific compatible systems is replaced by repetitive scenario-specific configuration and deployment of multimodal biometric systems. We also present tools for configuration and deployment, which respectively configure and deploy multimodal biometric systems comprising of heterogeneous open source and/or commercial biometric systems required for fulfillment of domain specific authentication needs. In comparison to the prevalent practices, our approach reduces the effort required for developing and deploying reliable biometric authentication systems.
Citation: Javed, Shazia & Norbisrath, Ulrich. (2015). Service integration for biometric authentication. Proceedings – 2014 International Conference on Emerging Technologies, ICET 2014. 30-35. 10.1109/ICET.2014.7021012.
Title: Implementation of Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Lung Cancer Detection
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Citation: Ejaz, Naveed & Javed, Shazia & Sajid, Zeeshan. (2013). Implementation of Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Lung Cancer Detection. Lecture Notes on Software Engineering. 364-369. 10.7763/LNSE.2013.V1.78.
MSE (Software Engineering) at University of Tartu, Estonia
Sep 2010 – Jun 2012 (02 yrs)
Thesis: Service Integration for Biometric Authentication
Java, C++, and Python based implementation of integration framework for open source and commercial biometric authentication products and services.
BS (Computer Science) at NUCES (aka FAST-NU), Islamabad
Aug 2001 – Jun 2005 (04 yrs)
Final Year Project: Computer aided Diagnosis for Early Lung Cancer Detection
Devised and implemented in C# and Matlab an indigenous algorithm for detecting early lung cancer nodules on CT scan images obtained from Shaukat Khanam Cancer Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan.