Khalid Hussain, Head of Software

Khalid Hussain

Head of Software

TPL Insurance Ltd.

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Diploma, Machine Learning Data Science
Experience
20 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 7 Months

Head of Software at TPL Insurance Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since April 2008

Responsibilities: Product Development:
• Orchestrated the implementation of professional software engineering practices for the entire SDLC, including solution architecture, database design, code reviews, source control management, release management, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing (UAT) resulting in increased team efficiency by 30%, reduced customer support issues by 40% .
• Designed and execute POCs for Enterprise capabilities. Create building blocks and transition points to deliver the target architecture.
• Created Enterprise solutions using MVC architecture by implementing Repository & Service patterns along with SSO using OpenID.
• Data Migration: Successfully migrated the legacy data thru ETL into new Product and Schema.
• Implemented Continuous Integration (CI) thru a job in Jenkins to run Automation testing scripts created in Selenium.
• Hands On: Participate in technical discussions, design, data model and architecture.
• Implementing online/offline strategies to get the maximum engagements on all digital platforms. Project Management:
• Act as an agile coach for 30-members cross-functional team of Software Engineers, stakeholders, vendors and executives. Translating user stories into clear product specification documents for the software development team.
• Leading Program Management in Steering Committee meetings for IT projects using SDLC phases for Project Management, Tracking, Change Delivery and Communication.
• Reviewing customer requirements and existing design configurations to recommend solutions, including relevant technical Documentation for Pre-Sale activities, such as Requests for Information, Proposals and Quotes.
• Preparation of Project Plan in Microsoft Projects (MPP), Requirement Gathering/Analysis, Define Scope, Creating WBS, Define Activities & sequencing activities for estimates & find Critical path. Monitoring Cost, Scope, Schedule, Risk and Quality.
• Conduct Daily Standup Meetings: Encouraged collaboration in brief meetings to address challenges and coordinate team activities.
• Tracked Velocity: Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress. Burndown and burnup charts for tracking.
• Iteration Planning Sessions: Prioritized highest-value product deliverables as per business goals for Minimum Viable Product.
• Facilitated Release Planning Sessions: Collaborated with team and Product owner to plan Release items and Delivery frequency. Risk Management:
• Conducted the DR Drills in line with RTO and RPO for critical apps.
• Mitigate the risks thru Vulnerability and Penetration Testing of core systems by coordination with Info Security team.
• Collaborated in implementation of IT Governance policies. Ensured compliance for Internal/External IT Audits and gap analysis.

Team Lead Remote Internship at iNeuron Intelligence Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2020 to June 2021

Led the team in complete process creation starting from Data Ingestion/Profiling to Model training for Prediction and Deployment for a Health Care Premium Prediction as AI & ML Project. Phase 1: Data Ingestion by reading the data from a file into MongoDB. Data profiling by/ splitting the data in Features and Target variables. Using EDA, Data Modeling & Visualization and Preprocessing to eliminate outliers. ML Model creation that gives prediction results with validation of Best Model selected on the basis of hyper parameter tuning against the 3 models on following algorithms (Linear Regression, Random Forest Regression (ensemble) and SVM Regression). Phase 2: Creation of UI (Web Application) as the front end interface with back end API generated in phase 1 and bind with backend (API created in Phase 1) to showcase the Health premium prediction and used Mongo DB for data storage. Deployment: Defined Continuous Deployment (CD) workflows to integrate and deploy code and ML models into production using below approach. Github for code repository and version control, Jenkins for scheduling a job to deploy build, publish the build in Docker Hub/Cloud.

Software Engineer at THK Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2007 to April 2008

Responsibilities:
• Streamlined Requirements, impact and Gaps. Creation of Schema Design
• Development of FS using OOP methodology. Development of System and Database structure.

Pacific Delta Shipping Pvt. Ltd. at Pacific Delta Shipping Pvt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 2005 to November 2007

• Requirements Gathering/Analysis and creation of Schema Design. Development of System and Database structure on modules.
- Import manifest and arrival notification - Shipping orders and Export B/L - EDI

Computer Programmer at Pacific Delta Shipping Pvt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 2005 to November 2007

Responsibilities:
• Requirements Gathering/Analysis and creation of Schema Design. Development of System and Database structure on modules.
• Import manifest and arrival notification - Shipping orders and Export B/L - EDI

Faysal Associates Pvt. Ltd. at Faysal Associates Pvt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • October 2003 to March 2005

Responsibilities:
• Design and Development of Manufacturing ERP contains following modules with Participation in Schema Design.
- Bill of Materials - Production Management - Inventory and Sales Management - Payroll - General Ledger

Software Engineer at Faysal Associates Pvt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • October 2003 to March 2005

Responsibilities:
• Design and Development of Manufacturing ERP contains following modules with Participation in Schema Design.
• Bill of Materials - Production Management - Inventory and Sales Management - Payroll - General Ledger
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT / POCs

Education

Diploma, Machine Learning Data Science
  • at Ineuron
  • June 2020
Master's degree, Master of Computer Science
  • at Karachi Institute of Economics & Technology
  • January 2009

Specialties & Skills

Machine Learning
Microsoft SQL Server
B2B Integration
ASP.NET MVC
DATA MIGRATION
DATABASE DESIGN
EXTRACT TRANSFORM LOAD (ETL)
INTEGRATION
INTERNET PAYMENT GATEWAY
PENETRATION TESTING
PLANNING
ASP.Net MVC, .Net Core, C#, WebAPI
Oracle EBS Financials
Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL
Python, Machine Learning
Project Management Professional
Power BI
Sage Intacct Accounting ERP
Ms Visio
Ms Project
JIRA Software

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Languages

English
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Training and Certifications

Accessing Data with Microsoft. Net Framework 4 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
MCTS (.Net Framework 4, Web Applications) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2023
Certified Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2023
Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2022