Zaid聽Zakir
Senior React Native Engineer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Top SchoolZaid Zakir is a Senior React Native Engineer with a decade of mobile-first experience building and scaling consumer and fintech apps across Southeast Asia. He has led feature development and releases for apps with millions of downloads鈥攆rom MoneyLion鈥檚 3M+ install base to multiple banking apps at Hong Leong Bank鈥攚hile migrating large codebases to modern Kotlin and React Native stacks. Comfortable across Android, Kotlin, Java and Flutter, he pairs hands-on implementation with product-minded decisions, aligning technical priorities to business goals and coaching junior engineers. His background includes shipping mission-critical features like backup payment authorization and loan deferment flows that directly influenced user experience and retention. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he also shares technical perspectives through Medium articles and maintains an active GitHub presence, reflecting a habit of continual learning and community engagement. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves quickly from ambiguous product requirements to reliable, user-safe releases.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Software Engineering, Diploma, Computer Software Engineering at National School of Business ManagementHigh School, High School at Burhani Serendib International SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Second Class - Upper, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Second Class - Upper at University of Plymouth
English, Tamil, Sinhala
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Github Skills (31)
android-sdk8
android-open-source7
instant-messaging7
sdk7
chat-sdk6
firebase6
messaging-api6
retrofit6
mobile6
android-jetpack-compose6
android-studio6
android6
kotlin6
http6
dagger-hilt6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zaidzak9/AndroidTestingSample
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 15 days
zaidzak9/CryptoCurrencyTracker
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Android App monitoring value of cryptocurrency
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
android-appcryptocurrencymonitoringandroid
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