Waqas Shabir
Co-Founder & CRO at Stackyon Hyper Automation Platform
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolWaqas Shabir is a technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling software products across travel, marketing and energy technology sectors. As Co-Founder & CRO of Stackyon and founder of Fosphorus, he blends hands-on software architecture and product management with commercial leadership to drive growth, partnerships and operational efficiency. He has led cross-functional teams of 20+ through full project lifecycles, architected large ETL and multilingual data pipelines, and implemented robust CI/CD and monitoring systems. A practical systems thinker, he pairs technical fluency in backend and infrastructure engineering with financial and governance-minded decision making. He also contributes to open source—having enhanced dateparser with Arabic date support—demonstrating attention to internationalization and real-world data challenges. Based in Tampa, he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery experience to turn complex technical requirements into measurable business value.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computing, BS Computing at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Businesses Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations, Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Businesses Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations at Babson College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
regular-expression10
localize10
date-parsing10
localization10
locale10
python10
oracle-11g6
stored-procedures6
php6
oracle6
database6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
scrapinghub/dateparser
Dec 2014 - Jun 2017
python parser for human readable dates
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 361 commits, 181 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Waqas primarily focused on improving the parsing of dates in the `dateparser` repository. The user implemented support for parsing Arabic dates, which included adding new language-specific word replacements and modifications to the date parsing logic, specifically in the `freshness_date_parser.py` file. They also fixed various issues, such as handling misplaced spaces and correcting KeyErrors in language processing. This work enhanced the library's capabilities in handling dates from various cultural and linguistic contexts.
parserpython
closeio/dateparser
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:9 commits in 6 months
pythonpython-parserreadablehuman-readabledates
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