Muhammad Rafiq
Principal Software Engineer Team Lead at Contour Software
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
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Top SchoolMuhammad Rafiq is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead based in Islamabad with a decade of hands-on experience building .NET-centric web applications and modern front-end stacks like Angular and React. He combines Microsoft certifications (MCP, MCSD) with practical leadership—running sprints, mentoring engineers, and owning end-to-end system design at Contour Software after progressive technical lead roles. Comfortable across the full stack, he rapidly adopts containerization and Node/Docker workflows while maintaining legacy .NET systems, enabling smooth migrations and incremental delivery. A tech communicator outside work, he produces tutorials and videos under UsmanCode and writes about emerging trends on his blog, which reflects a consistent habit of teaching to sharpen his craft. Notably, he balances deep Microsoft-platform expertise with active learning in JavaScript ecosystems, making him effective at bridging older enterprise codebases and modern web architectures.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
2008 F.Sc, Sciences, 2008 F.Sc, Sciences at Federal2011 Bachelor, Computer Science, 2011 Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Arid AgricultureBS( Computer Sciences), Programming Languages , Databases , Web Development etc, BS( Computer Sciences), Programming Languages , Databases , Web Development etc at University of Arid Agriculture, Rwalpindi
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Github Skills (47)
vertical-slice-architecture10
database-api10
docker10
starter-kit10
dotnet10
entity-framework-core10
signalr10
multitenancy10
backend-api10
terraform10
modular-monolith10
clean-architecture10
blazor10
sql-server10
infrastructure10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
musmanrafiq/ShopsManagement
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
musmanrafiq/BlogEngine
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Asp.net Core blog - Lets create a blog in asp.net core
Contributions:48 commits, 14 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 2 months
asp-net-mvccore-blogaspnetaspasp-net-core-mvc
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