Sohaib Ahmad, Founding Partner / Head of Service Delivery

Sohaib Ahmad

Founding Partner / Head of Service Delivery

Elegant Systems

Location
Pakistan - Rawalpindi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Physics and Maths
Experience
20 years, 0 Months

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Founding Partner / Head of Service Delivery at Elegant Systems
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since December 2023

I oversee customer engagement, manage expectations, and ensure timely delivery of consulting projects while fostering strong client relationships. My current focus is on delivering projects in offshore service delivery, GIS, IoT, and in-house product development for SME business management and the medical sector.
Additionally, I lead the implementation of Agile software development practices within the organization to enhance project efficiency and delivery.

Senior Technical Program Manager / Producer at Quixel
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • December 2020 to March 2023

During more than 2 years of stay at Quixel, I was responsible for overseeing the feature planning, development, and launch of Quixel Bridge, the Megascans (the 3D scanned objects) delivery platform.

The Product included a Web, Desktop, and Plugin version for Unreal Engine. The First Bridge Plugin inside UE 5 EA, was launched under my supervision in June 2021. After UE5.0 EA I remained in charge of numerous minor and major releases of Bridge versions and the Quixel website as well.

I also worked as an Agile Transformation Leader for Quixel and was responsible for Planning, implementing, and guiding teams in the adoption of Agile software development practices such as writing stories, scrum meetings, running sprints,
release planning, and retrospectives (metrics/burndown/velocity, etc.)

Product Management/Product Architect at LMKR, pt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • December 2015 to June 2020

Worked as a Product Manager for my last 4 years at LMKR. Working with Sr. Product Manager, Customer Support, Marketing/research teams, and end users in requirement analysis and preparing the Market Requirements document and Product Requirements document, defining Release charters, and managing product backlogs.

Development Team Lead (Geology) at LMKR pt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • November 2011 to November 2015

For almost 4 years I remained in the role of Dev Lead. Working as a senior developer and mentor for junior team members and coordinating with PM in feature understanding and making technical decisions.
As a Dev Lead, I successfully established a development team for Geology products of GeoGraphix Discovery Suit. The product suite included the products of PRIZM, XSection, smartSECTION, ZoneManager, and some utilities.

Senior Software Developer at LMKR pt. Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 2009 to November 2011

My first assignments in LMKR were related to research work in 3D Volume Rendering, working with huge seismic data in the form of 3D Volume. My role was to understand the theory; prepare mathematical models, experiment with data, and implement the algorithms.

AM Tech / Manager Tech at NESCOM Govt. of Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • December 2002 to December 2008

Worked in multiple products development for public sector organisations mainly the following :

1. Dev Lead Office Automation Group ( IBM FileNet P8 )

2. Development of Geographic Information System (GIS)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Physics and Maths
  • at University Of The Punjab
  • September 2024

Bachelors in Mathematics and Physics.

Higher diploma, Computer Science
  • at University Of The Punjab
  • September 2024

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science form Department of Computer Science, Punjab University, which later became the Faculity of Computing and Information Technology.

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at Quaid-i-azam University, Islamabad
  • March 2024

M.Sc. Computer, with major in Software Engineeing, Computer Graphics, Quantitative Analysis for Management and Multimedia Application Designs.

Specialties & Skills

Web Application Design
GIS software
Agile Software Development
Software Product Management
Software Project Management
C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE)
MANAGEMENT
GEOLOGY
PLANNING
SCRUM (SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT)
PETROPHYSICS
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Native Speaker

Hobbies

  • Book Reading