Summary
Waqqas Jabbar is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience and a 20-year history in IT, currently building systems at Vectara from Rawalpindi. He has led backend architecture, low-latency trading feed handlers, embedded Linux teams and crypto tax tooling, blending deep C/C++ systems expertise with modern web and API development. As Director of Engineering and former CEO/founder, he pairs technical mentorship and hiring with practical product delivery, improving code quality and onboarding at scale. Notably, he designed high-performance lockless queues and recovery algorithms for exchange feed handlers, showing a knack for squeezing latency and reliability out of complex systems. Comfortable across the stack, he also contributes to developer productivity initiatives and runs technical knowledge-sharing programs such as SIGs and Toastmasters leadership.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Masters at Center For Advanced Studies In Engineering (CASE)
Bachelors, Bachelors at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu