Awais Tariq
Senior Team Lead at TEKHQS
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolAwais Tariq is a Senior Team Lead and backend-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable Node.js microservices, streaming and media-processing systems, and cost-optimized cloud deployments. He has improved API performance by 40%, led monolith-to-microservices migrations, and reduced cloud costs by 25% while driving observability and resilience using Elastic Stack and Datadog. Comfortable across Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, MongoDB/MySQL and Redis, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and strong delivery ownership for compliance and real-time gaming products. His early open-source contributions to the ClipBucket video platform reveal practical expertise in video conversion and ffmpeg integration—a less obvious strength that complements his streaming background. Based in Lahore, he enjoys translating complex operational rules into reliable, testable services and growing engineering teams into high-performing units.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
FSC, Engineering, FSC, Engineering at Degree College, LayyahBS(CS), Computer Programming, BS(CS), Computer Programming at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesMatriculation, Maths,Sciences, Matriculation, Maths,Sciences at Layyah Public School, Layyah
English, Urdu, Punjabi
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Github Skills (9)
video-processing10
php10
video-encoding10
ffmpeg10
mysql9
file-management9
open-source8
neo4j6
cypher6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arslancb/clipbucket
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Open source video sharing website script, Tune.pk clone, Youtube clone, dailymotion clone. PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Awais primarily contributed to video processing functionalities within the Clipbucket project, a PHP-based video-sharing website. Their work involved modifying the video conversion class, implementing HD and SD conversion processes, and correcting video detail extractions. The commits also touched upon file handling, log management, and the integration of ffmpeg for video processing. Additionally, the user made improvements to the mass uploader functionality.
social-featuresyoutube-clonephpsharingyoutube
Jarsa/transport-management-system
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Transport Management System for Odoo
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 1 day
freightmanagement-systempythonodooerp
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