Shoaib Akhtar
Core Contributor at ZAR
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolShoaib Akhtar is a pragmatic mobile-first engineer with 12+ years crafting resilient iOS and cross-platform products and a decade of shipping at-scale fintech and consumer apps from Dubai. He has led squads at SadaPay and Mrsool, driving architecture shifts from monoliths to microservices and micro-frontends while improving test coverage and CI/CD maturity. Known for blending deep Swift expertise with full‑stack Kotlin/Spring and event-driven systems, he translated frontend discipline into robust backend data pipelines and Kafka integrations. Shoaib focuses on measurable outcomes—reducing CAC, boosting FX revenue, and slashing failure rates—while mentoring teams and instituting engineering practices like TDD, trunk-based development and mob programming. Currently a core contributor at ZAR, he’s now applying that product-and-payments experience to enable stablecoin adoption in high-inflation markets.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English
Github Skills (51)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
carthage10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
eagle8
facebook-graph-api8
integrate8
facebook-api8
crossword7
facebook7
beancount7
stepper6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shoaib-akhtar/SBAActionSheetPicker
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Easy to use customised action sheet picker inspired by UIAlertController
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
action-sheetcrosswordsheetbeancountcustomised
shoaib-akhtar/iOS-Portfolio
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.