Summary
Qasim Ikram is a Senior Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with eight years of professional experience building distributed, cloud-native systems—now advancing platform work at Microsoft after progressing through multiple engineering levels there. He holds an M.S. in Distributed Software Systems from Technische Universität Darmstadt and combines strong backend expertise (Java, C#, .NET) with practical experience in cloud services, APIs and IoT from past roles in smart-city projects and startups. As a former CTO and co-founder he brings product-minded engineering and end-to-end delivery experience, having led teams, shipping matching algorithms and mobile/web services on Azure. His background spans enterprise middleware for telecoms to hands-on SaaS and visualization systems, giving him a rare mix of startup agility and large-company scale. Colleagues value him for consistently translating complex integration requirements into reliable, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Bachelors in Information Technology Computer Science, Bachelors in Information Technology Computer Science at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu, German