Saad Khan
Senior Full Stack Developer at Gulf Ventures
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolSaad Khan is a Senior Full Stack Developer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and embedded solutions from Lahore, Pakistan. He is a self-taught web engineer who evolved from scripting static sites to designing serverless backends and data products that support thousands of concurrent users. At Gulf Ventures he built a game operations web portal and serverless infrastructure that integrates Firebase, BigQuery and GCP for analytics-driven decision making. His prior embedded systems work at Mentor Graphics spans Linux platform enablement, real-time performance analysis, GPU integration and custom Qt/Genivi plugins, reflecting deep systems-level expertise. An active open-source contributor, he has improved determinism and package recipes in the widely used OpenEmbedded core. Outside work he balances curiosity-driven study of astronomy and spirituality with photography and a knack for a mean cup of coffee.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences
Urdu, English, Punjabi
Github Skills (13)
embedded10
build-system10
yocto-project10
sys10
udev7
c176
bash6
c116
networking6
security5
linux-kernel5
git4
python4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Dec 2013 - Sep 2014
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:14 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Saad primarily contributed to the OpenEmbedded Core project by updating and modifying recipes for various software packages. These updates include changes to `wpa-supplicant` configuration to allow for SSL implementation selection, updating the `trace-cmd` version, adding udev rules to unmount SD cards, allowing explicit enabling/disabling of polkit for consolekit, adding a patch to address a header file conflict in strace, and updating LTTng-UST. The user also made changes to disable user site support for python-native builds, ensuring more deterministic builds.
git-repositoryopenembedded
Yasir-Khan/meta-tracing
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Layer to add necessary agent support for Sourcery Analyzer
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
agentnetwork-toolsipssourceryshodan
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