Jabran Rafique

Senior Software Enigneer & Tech Lead (Dec 2023 — Present)

Sky

I am involved in maintaining NBCUniversal & Sky customers streaming account platforms in 3 continents covering US, Europe and Africa.

• Maintain Sky's online portfolio across the US, Europe, and Africa, enhancing platform performance.
• Led performance improvements for the web apps driving results through strategic and technical enhancements
• Led test-driven development and developer experience initiatives, resulting in measurable improvements and optimized workflows.
• Mentor engineers, fostering technical skill growth and career progression.
• Provide strategic technical leadership and guidance, aligning with business goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive impactful technical decisions.

Staff Engineer (Jan 2023 — Nov 2023)

Rated People

As a Staff Engineer, I inherited a majority of responsibilities from my previous Tech Lead role and expand to encompass broader responsibilities such as strategic planning, and technical directions.

• Guided strategic planning and technical direction, aligning engineering efforts with long-term business goals and market trends.
• Led migration of legacy web apps to ReactJS and NodeJS ecosystem, enhancing performance and reliability.
• Oversaw CI/CD pipelines with BitBucket, Bamboo, AWS, and Cloudflare, ensuring continuous development and seamless deployments.
• Led and drove web performance enhancements using tools like Lighthouse and WebPageTest, achieving up to 55% speed improvements across the web platform.
• Championed progressive web app technologies, revolutionizing mobile user experience and substantially increasing engagement metrics.
• Cultivated a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence through mentorship, elevating team capabilities and fostering innovation.

Front-end Tech Lead (Jun 2018 — Dec 2022)

Rated People

As a Front-end Tech Lead, I was adept at mentoring and managing teams, driving modernization efforts, and ensuring code quality and platform health.

• Led REST API development in NodeJS and Redis for user authentication serving just over half a million requests a day as a proxy to Java microservices.
• Spearheaded micro-frontend migration using ReactJS, NodeJS, and Remix, enhancing system performance and user experience for Rated People's digital platforms.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to drive technical improvements, leveraging Cloudflare Workers, VWO, and SEOClarity for enhanced user testing and A/B experiments.
• Cultivated engineering excellence by mentoring front-end developers, elevating code quality standards, and optimizing workflow automation processes.
• Implemented comprehensive monitoring systems with AppDynamics, Heap, and Site24x7, ensuring platform stability and swift issue resolution.
• Actively shaped a high-performing engineering team through active involvement in recruitment, aligning talent acquisition with long-term technical goals.

Front-end Web Developer (Nov 2015 — May 2018)

Rated People

Involved in planning and development of new features and maintaining the existing codebases by keeping up with best practices, performance, security and industry standards.

• Actively participated in front-end stack migration to AWS, enhancing performance and scalability.
• Actively participated in platform rebranding in 2016, improving user engagement and brand perception.
• Modernized front-end tools chain to boost developer experience.
• Spearheaded and developed a new front-end app using LAMP stack and Symfony2, revolutionizing customer signup and vetting processes.
• Pioneered cutting-edge UI/UX designs that enhanced user engagement and site functionality.
• Pioneered the adoption of Docker and AWS technologies, revolutionizing deployment strategies and significantly enhancing scalability and reliability.

Lead Web Developer (Feb 2013 — Oct 2015)

Influence Digital

Oversee the social apps and websites development for clients, mentor and manage the development team and maintain technical roadmap.

• Enforced rigorous quality standards in code and documentation, ensuring robust and maintainable applications across diverse client projects.
• Spearheaded the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, guiding the team on industry trends and elevating the company's technical capabilities.
• Mentored junior developers and freelancers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and driving team productivity in agile development sprints.
• Pioneered MVC frameworks for custom web apps, enhancing code reusability and streamlining development processes for high-profile clients.
• Optimized in-house social media application frameworks, significantly improving performance and user engagement for client platforms.
• Partnered with design leads and project managers to maintain development sprints, ensuring seamless project execution for high-profile clients.

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