About

Nazir Ahmad is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in designing and developing complex software systems. He is an expert in C#, SQL, System Design, Data structures, and Algorithms. Nazir has solid experience in High and Low-Level System Design, Distributed Systems, and Microservices. Currently, he works as a Senior System Analyst at Wunderman Thompson, where he has successfully converted 3 legacy .Net apps to modern .Net core/5 apps and used containers for tests in the CI/CD pipeline, which has increased the stability of tests. He has also built a .Net core 3.1 app from scratch, from writing Jenkins script to configuring Octopus deploy. Nazir has excellent client-facing skills and has worked directly with clients in understanding requirements, technical queries, and final delivery. Prior to Wunderman Thompson, Nazir worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Factset, where he worked on a set of financial news gathering and editing applications that receive news feed from multiple sources and enables the writers/analysts to review, edit and add news info before pushing it to display on the end client software. He also worked on migrating the entire code-base to AWS and Heroku platforms and redesigning it in a microservices architecture. Nazir has converted three legacy services to .Net Core and migrated them to the cloud as a microservice. He has also created four auto-generated reports by fetching data from DB using SQL and formatting it in a specified format, thereby reducing the manual effort by 100%. Additionally, he wrote an API service to report client errors to the company's internal work tracking system directly and integrated the applications to it, hence removing the manual hassle of reporting errors. Nazir has also worked as a Software Engineer at Eze Software, where he developed a library to transfer files using FTP, SFTP, and FTPS protocols using third-party DLLs like SecureBlackbox and EnterpriseDt. He has automated more than 15 manual workflows via integration tests thus reducing the regression testing effort by 50%. Nazir has also redesigned a legacy monolithic application into microservices architecture by breaking it down to 9 microservices. He has mentored two juniors and performed hundreds of peer code reviews. Nazir holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Lovely Professional University. He has a strong technical skillset, including experience with AWS, Jenkins, RabbitMQ, Docker, Python, Elastic Search,