Waqar Alamgir
Scientific Researcher at German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolWaqar Alamgir is a pragmatic software engineer and infrastructure architect with 12 years of experience building high-availability web platforms and data pipelines across PHP, Python, Go and JavaScript. Currently a Scientific Researcher and Data Engineer at DZHW, he designs reproducible ETL workflows and private-cloud deployments that power empirical research in higher education while emphasizing data quality, security and long-term sustainability. He has led product and technical strategy as Co‑Founder/CTO of Porter Pakistan and previously architected large-scale marketing and backend systems for clients like Barnes & Noble/NOOK. Waqar blends backend server engineering, distributed systems (Kafka, Redis, sharding/replication) and automation (Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes) with a practical eye for performance and PSR-quality code. Outside core duties he mixes machine‑learning tooling and BI stacks into research workflows, reflecting a rare combination of academic rigor and startup-driven product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
SSC, Computer Science, SSC, Computer Science at The SchoolMS in Internet Technologies & Information Systems, Computer Science, MS in Internet Technologies & Information Systems, Computer Science at Technische Universität BraunschweigUniversity of Karachi
English, French, Urdu, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
json10
php10
mysql9
javascript9
twitter-bootstrap9
modal-dialog9
html9
scale8
networking8
container7
serverless7
phpdoc6
sql6
concatenation6
wordpress6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
waqar-alamgir/mine-sweeper
Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
wajrcs-dk/mini-go-cluster
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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