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

Jan 2025Present
  • 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

Jan 2023Jan 2025
  • 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

Dec 2021Jan 2023
  • 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

Apr 2021Sep 2021
  • 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’

Sep 2019Feb 2020
  • 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

Nov 2017Mar 2021
  • BSc Computer Science

Skills

PythonSQLPandasNumpyEDAGoogle Cloud PlatformMachine LearningAzure DatabricksStatisticsAnalytics

Employment Types

ContractFull-time