Usman Khan
Lead Software Engineer at Tether.io
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolUsman Khan is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and microservices, currently leading engineering at Tether.io from Islamabad. He has a strong track record across startups and international organizations—shaping architecture and delivery at a stealth startup, BuildingMinds, World Food Programme, and blockchain-focused roles with Lightcurve and Lisk. Usman specializes in backend performance, service decomposition, and production reliability, with hands-on experience in Node.js, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ and cloud deployments. He combines pragmatic engineering (e.g., Sequelize optimizations and intelligent pagination for 25K+ groups) with product-minded leadership, improving processes and setting long-term technical direction. Colleagues describe him as a tinkerer who applies new technologies thoughtfully to solve real-world problems and scale systems for impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Computer Sciences, Software Engineering Computer Sciences at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, NUSTHigh School Pre-Engineering, High School Pre-Engineering at Dar-e-Arqam High School
Urdu, English
Github Skills (63)
javascript10
development-kit10
typescript10
sdk10
blockchain10
command-line10
mysql9
mariadb9
jsonb9
postgresql9
facebook-api9
integrate9
json9
sqlite9
databases9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SargeKhan/dot-files
Jul 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 1 month
SargeKhan/lisk
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:122 pushes, 13 branches in 5 months
javascriptblockchainapplication-platformblockchain-applicationlisk
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.