Jabran Rafique

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead (Dec 2023 — Present)

Sky

Manage Sky’s online portfolio across US, Europe, and Africa. Lead TDD/DX initiatives; mentor engineers to accelerate career growth. Drive high-stakes technical decisions via cross-functional stakeholder collaboration.

• Architected and delivered enterprise-wide AI automation infra with Augment/Auggie and GitHub Copilot, creating reusable GitHub Actions workflows with AI agent prompts, enhancing developer productivity and code quality and reducing time to market.
• Engineered interactive AI development workflows enabling teams to trigger AI-assisted code analysis, implementation planning, and automated PR generation through GitHub issue comments, streamlining development cycles for distributed teams.
• Created automated documentation generation pipeline running weekly via GitHub Actions, automatically analysing codebases and generating/updating markdown files with Augment AI agents, reducing 75% of documentation maintenance overhead.
• Helped implement tailored AI-powered PR review system using Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5 models with custom prompt engineering, providing automated code quality feedback with configurable severity levels and confidence scoring.
• Implemented rigorous performance monitoring using Lighthouse CI, Catchpoint and Elastic APM Watchers, validation checks for GraphQL Schema in Concourse CI/CD workflows to continously evaluate performance bottlenecks and reduce frictions, ensuring web applications consistently meet high-performance standards across global markets.
• Architected and implemented automation of the rules order key for Akamai Property Manager eliminating manual effort by 100%, enhancing CDN config efficiency, accuracy and DX.
• Contributed to Next.js 15+ applications using React, TypeScript, styled-components, Apollo Client for GraphQL, integration and VR with Playwright and Cypress, Vitest, and AWS Lambda serverless architecture, serving millions of users across Peacock, NOW TV, and Sky streaming platforms.
• Contributed to the shared UI components library to align implementations with Sky's design system, enhancing consistency and reusability across multiple web applications.
• Championed developer experience improvements through automation, mentor engineers, fostering technical skill growth and career progression.
• Led knowledge-sharing sessions and code reviews to promote best practices and continuous learning within the team. Helped promote at least 2 engineers to senior roles.

Staff Engineer (Jan 2023 — Nov 2023)

Rated People

Led legacy-to-React/Node migration, improving reliability and performance. Leveraged Lighthouse/WebPageTest and PWA for 55% platform speed increase. Spearheaded CI/CD pipelines via BitBucket, Bamboo, AWS, and Cloudflare.

• Guided strategic planning and technical direction, aligning engineering efforts with long-term business goals and market trends.
• Championed progressive web app (PWA) 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.
• Actively involved in recruitment process, attracting top-tier talent to build a high-performing engineering team aligned with company vision.

Frontend Tech Lead (Jun 2018 — Dec 2022)

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Built Node/Redis BFF service with auth sessions handling more than half a million daily requests to Java microservices. Spearheaded migration using React, Node, and Remix. Leveraged Cloudflare Workers, VWO and SEOClarity for A/B testing and SEO gains.

• Cultivated engineering excellence by mentoring frontend developers, elevating code quality standards, and optimizing workflow automation processes.
• Implemented comprehensive monitoring systems with AWS CloudWatch, 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.

Frontend Web Developer (Nov 2015 — May 2018)

Rated People

Helped transition Frontend stack to AWS to enhance performance; Docker for scalable deployments. Spearheaded and developed custom signup app with automated vetting process using LAMP and Symfony2.

• Actively participated in platform rebranding during 2016, improving user engagement and brand perception.
• Modernized Frontend tools chain to boost developer experience.
• Pioneered cutting-edge UI/UX designs that enhanced user engagement and site functionality.

Lead Web Developer (Feb 2013 — Oct 2015)

Influence Digital

Collaborated with design leads and project managers to maintain development sprints, ensuring seamless project execution for high-profile clients. Oversaw the social apps and websites development, mentored and managed the development team and maintained the 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.
• Developed a custom MVC framework for custom web apps, enhancing code reusability and streamlining development processes for high-profile clients.
• Developed and optimized in-house social media MVC application frameworks, significantly improving performance and user engagement for client platforms while enhancing code reusability and streamlining development processes.

Education & Voluntary work

2008 — 2013