Summary
Rizwan Abbas is a Solutions Architect and Fintech integration specialist with nearly two decades of IT experience and 11 years focused in the UAE fintech and e-commerce ecosystems. He designs and delivers scalable payment and messaging architectures—having built an in-house AML tool, integrated SWIFT and crypto exchanges, and even developed an alternative to SWIFT—while leading teams to ship merchant plugins and a one-click Shopify offsite payments app. Comfortable across cloud, headless commerce and multivendor Magento platforms, he pairs hands-on development (Selenium, Postman automation) with strategic API design and vendor negotiations. Known for modernizing legacy integrations and accelerating certifications, he bridges product and engineering to improve customer experience and retention. Based in Dubai, Rizwan brings a pragmatic blend of technical depth, regulatory awareness and commercial acumen that repeatedly turns complex fintech requirements into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MIT, Information Technology, MIT, Information Technology at University of Arid Agriculture, Rwalpindi
English, Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, pothohari, Sindhi, hindko