Waqqas Jabbar
Software Engineer at Vectara
Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolWaqqas 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
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Github Skills (90)
javascript9
react-native9
ios9
expo9
react9
frontend9
typescript9
android9
apple-pay8
react-native-app8
microfrontend8
weex8
react-navigation8
mobile8
firebase7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
waqqas/eventr
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Lightweight event driven framework for low latency application
Contributions:34 commits, 28 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 months
event-sourcinglatencyframeworkdispatcherevent-driven
waqqas/codility
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:48 commits, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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