Junaid Khalid
Acting Head Talent Management & Training at Gargash Group
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolJunaid Khalid is an experienced talent management and learning leader with nine years in strategic L&D, change management and organizational development, currently Acting Head of Talent Management & Training at Gargash Group in the UAE. He has led product and systems training for premium automotive brands (Mercedes‑Benz and AMG), designing ROI-driven programs, regional launch training and certification schemes while integrating psychometric assessment as a regular workforce diagnostic. Comfortable operating at the intersection of people and systems, he has re-engineered L&D information systems and built end-to-end learning modules that reduced process lag and supported large-scale recruitment and graduate training. His background spans recruitment, CSR training and business development across multinational environments, giving him both client-facing and operational depth. Notably, he has contributed QA and test-automation improvements to an open-source Java project (rsocket-java), showing an analytical, systems-oriented approach beyond traditional HR work. He combines hands-on program delivery with a track record of building repeatable assessment and training models that scale across regions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cipd, Learning and Development, 5, Cipd, Learning and Development, 5 at UKBCOM, Commerce, BCOM, Commerce at University of Karachi
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
test-framework10
junit10
reactive10
java10
rsocket10
test-automation10
testing10
netty9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rsocket/rsocket-java
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Java implementation of RSocket
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Junaid primarily focused on enhancing the testing framework for the RSocket Java implementation. Their contributions included refactoring the TCK test runner, replacing existing test structures with a JUnit-based approach, and updating the JavaClientDriver to support a new test format. They modified the client driver to include assertions for different test scenarios and added support for the new TCK test format with multiple clients.
javarsocketrxjavareactor-corestream
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