Burhan
Engineer
Dubai
Summary
Experienced engineer with expertise in developing cross-platform applications, optimizing systems, and building applied machine learning algorithms.
Work Experience
Product Engineer
Inkle
- Built Inkle independently from concept to production, owning product strategy, UI/UX, user flows, full-stack architecture, development, deployment, and early customer acquisition.
- Designed and engineered the complete product stack, including database architecture, authentication, Stripe payments, ecommerce infrastructure, and end-to-end customer workflows.
- Built and integrated a multi-platform social content engine, connecting Bluesky and Mastodon APIs to deliver aggregated feeds within the Inkle ecosystem.
- Developed ML-powered analytics and monetization capabilities, turning user and audience data into actionable insights while building creator storefronts and commerce functionality.
Software Engineer
Townhall
- Developed a sentiment analysis algorithm to identify and filter profane language using the SpaCy Python library.
- Spearheaded development of Townhall using Flutter, Python, and the Dart programming language.
- Deployed Townhall successfully on two major mobile platforms; Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store.
- Managed all aspects of business development, including market research, financial planning, and design.
- Achieved an 8% weekly growth in user acquisition and surpassing 100+ active users.
- Created RAG model with Gemini AI dependence for internal use case for DB monitoring and insights.
Data Scientist
Noon e-commerce
- Reduced and optimized SQL based cloud-server costs by more than 55%.
- Performed ETL and statistical analysis on sales data to generate insights and identify poor performing products across
- 20% of product catalog.
- Automated more than 90% of the reports to vendors using JavaScript and Python.
- Analyzed impressions and engagements to develop a customer behavior model, improving marketing strategies and
- retail KPIs.
- Created interactive visualizations in Looker to communicate findings and drive data-informed decision making.
- Visualizations were used internally by more than 200 people across 3 MENA regions.
Data Architect
Digital Qatalyst
- Explored and improved data models for UAE and KSA government entities, aiding their digital transition.
- Developed ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) strategies and examined business capabilities and case studies to
- identify and improve technological infrastructure.
- Designed UML/ERD diagrams to visualize database architecture.
Software Engineer
eHomemakers’
- Built and led web design team to successfully deliver projectWhee.com using JavaScript.
- Improved website backend to fix set-up issues occurred for SMS based notification system.
Education
Computer Science
Staffordshire University
- BSc Computer Science
Skills
PythonSQLPandasNumpyEDAGoogle Cloud PlatformMachine LearningAzure DatabricksStatisticsAnalytics
Employment Types
ContractFull-time