Summary
Adnan Usman is a strategic engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-traffic e-commerce platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering for Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile. He led technical integration during the $1.35B Mint/Ultra acquisition by T-Mobile and specializes in migrating legacy stacks to headless architectures using Next.js, Node.js, WordPress/WooCommerce and Kubernetes with a custom Varnish caching layer. Comfortable both architecting systems and managing technical debt, he has scaled organizations from single-digit teams to 30+ engineers while driving event-driven, SSR, and microfrontend patterns. His hands-on background spans backend APIs (Node.js, PHP), databases (MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB) and cloud native tooling (AWS Lambda, EKS, Terraform, CI/CD). Based in Fullerton, CA, he combines product-focused delivery with mentorship and resource planning, and maintains a long-running personal site where he experiments with web design and content. Notably, he pairs enterprise-level orchestration with the practical web craftsmanship honed from years of building and optimizing WordPress-driven businesses.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Management Program at UCLA Extension
Grow with Google Scholarship, Mobile Web Specialist, Grow with Google Scholarship, Mobile Web Specialist at Udacity
English, Urdu