Zaid Akram
Founder & CEO at Urdu Lughat
Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolZaid Akram is a seasoned software entrepreneur and engineer with 13 years of experience building web and app products, currently leading Amrood Labs and Urdu Lughat as Founder & CEO. He combines hands-on back-end expertise—evident from Rails modernization and Devise integration work on open-source projects—with product-focused leadership in UX/UI from his time heading visualization at INTECH. Zaid has a solid Ruby on Rails pedigree from early roles and a track record of guiding teams from prototype to production. Based in Punjab, Pakistan, he pairs a telecommunications engineering background with practical startup experience, frequently turning client ideas into deployed solutions. An understated strength is his ability to modernize legacy Rails codebases while preserving product continuity for business users.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Telecommunication, Bachelor of Science, Telecommunication at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesF.Sc, Pre-Engineering, F.Sc, Pre-Engineering at Govt. Islamia degree college, Narowal
Punjabi, Urdu, English
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Github Skills (7)
activerecord10
devise10
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
configuration-management8
filepicker6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ari/jobsworth
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Project Management, Collaboration and Time Tracking.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 commits, 5 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zaid made several commits related to updating the Rails application, indicating back-end development activities. They removed deprecated Rails 4.x features and adapted code for compatibility. The user added and configured Devise, including handling secrets. Additionally, they modified environment configurations for eager loading and refactored association macros.
collaborationtime-trackingtrackingproject-planningrefactoring
zaidakram/zaidakram.github.io
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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