Awaisย Qureshi
Lead Software Engineer at Arbisoft
Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolAwais Qureshi is a Lead Software Engineer at Arbisoft with over a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems, payment integrations, and scalable REST APIs primarily in Python/Django. He has led cross-functional teams and projects across travel, recruiting (ATS), and education domainsโmost notably architecting Sastaticket.pk from scratch, integrating airline APIs and multiple payment gateways. Awais is an active contributor to Open edX components (including ecommerce, course-discovery, and edx-platform), where he focused on enrollment, billing, affiliate feeds and payment retry logic for real-world e-commerce flows. He combines technical leadership and direct contributor instincts, often handling both project management and low-level schema and API changes. Based in Punjab, Pakistan, he brings a rare mix of long-term QA roots and modern backend engineering, which helps him bridge reliability, payments, and product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (26)
api-rest10
data-service10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
django-rest10
webservice10
api10
django-rest-framework10
rest-api10
backend10
shopping-cart9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/ecommerce
Jun 2015 - Apr 2022
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 162 commits, 124 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Awais primarily focused on developing features for an e-commerce platform, particularly related to the credit checkout process. Their contributions involved adding new views, URLs, and templates for the checkout page. They also made modifications to the database schema, adding attributes such as credit hours, and updated the analytics integration. Furthermore, the user implemented code to handle payment processors and included retry attempts for PayPal payment executions.
djangoedxproduct-catalogbackend-servicehandling
openedx/course-discovery
Apr 2016 - May 2022
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 257 commits, 430 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Awais primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `course-discovery` repository. They implemented an endpoint for handling affiliate datafeeds, demonstrating the creation of REST API endpoints using Django REST Framework. They also added the publisher app and associated models, indicating work on course and curriculum management, and integrated features for a comments section on the platform, reflecting their focus on API development and data handling. Furthermore, they implemented features such as adding profile image on course-run page which enhance the frontend.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
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