Qasim Zaidi
Chief Technology Officer at Snapp!
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolQasim Zaidi is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with about 15 years of leadership experience and a nearly 25-year engineering background spanning e-commerce, ad tech, real-time bidding, and large-scale marketplaces. He has led platform and architecture transformations at companies including Snapp!, Tokopedia, Paytm and Rivigo, scaling transaction platforms from thousands to over a million daily transactions and rebuilding stacks with Node.js and Go. Known for hiring and scaling high-performance engineering teams, he has a track record of shipping fast, pragmatic ecommerce and ad-serving systems and pioneering early Node.js-based commerce implementations in India. Based in Istanbul, he blends product-minded technical strategy with hands-on delivery and operational rigor, often driving cross-functional change in fast-growth environments. His combination of an engineering degree and executive education in finance and marketing gives him an uncommon ability to align technical roadmaps with business and commercial outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Electronics, B.Tech Electronics at Aligarh Muslim UniversityPGDM for Working Executives Finance & Marketing, PGDM for Working Executives Finance & Marketing at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
English, Urdu, Hindi, Indonesian, Persian
Github Skills (129)
windows10
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javascript10
linux10
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nodejs10
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simulate9
alarm9
dynamodb9
golang9
api9
slack-bot9
security9
rdp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
qzaidi/magickwand
May 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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qzaidi/alexa
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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