Muhammad Zahid Baloch

Rejoined the team with a leadership role in full-stack development and AI integration.

Developed and maintained advanced WordPress solutions, including custom plugins, themes, and deep WooCommerce customisations.

Built and launched Bahrain's first online automated system for .bh domain purchases.

Developed AIdea - AI Domain Name Search, an intelligent platform that helps users instantly generate and discover unique business names and domain availability using AI.

Integrated custom payment gateways for local and international use.

Designed and deployed agentic AI workflows and Generative AI tools for content automation and client solutions.

Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2 and Lightsail instances), domain configurations, hosting, and site migrations.

Resolved critical backend issues, optimised performance, and strengthened server reliability.

Led hybrid mobile development using Ionic, Cordova, Flutter and other frameworks.

Designed and deployed apps for internal systems and business services.

Contributed to multiple WordPress-based web applications.

Developed WordPress websites with custom themes and deep CMS customisations.

Built hybrid mobile apps for Android and iOS using frameworks like Cordova and Ionic.

Created and extended WordPress plugins to support client requirements.

Integrated payment gateways and external APIs into WordPress and mobile solutions.

Working within the team at Al Kalima IT in Microsoft Clouding System, Office 365 and SharePoint 2013 Front-end Development. Designed and developed Public Facing website, and also customized public facing website as a Content Management System. Customized Custom Lists and XSLT layout. Manage Team Sites and also responsible all front-end designing and development on Office 365 and SharePoint 2013

Working within the team at Al Kalima IT in eGovernment project. Responsible for maintaining the UI & integration between the kiosk applications & UI. Developed and design the POS UI. Developed Web Services WSDL and Handled XML messages. Developing XHTML, using CSS, moreover DOM and jQuery & JavaScript validations. Using the Bootstrap and other framework CSS3. Creating responsive and cross-browser websites RWD. Software troubleshooting for kiosk Website Designing & Development.

• Led the UI/UX design team, overseeing both consumer-facing and admin-side interfaces for the SuperMeal platform.
• Designed and developed SuperMeal’s WordPress blog to support brand presence and content strategy.
• Created the UI design for SuperMeal’s Android application, ensuring consistency across web and mobile platforms.

Responsible for design and development for majority of the in-house projects mainly DAWN.COM. Migrated the design from IBM Websphere Portal to the self-hosted WordPress CMS and then to WordPress.com. In addition to migration, design and development using latest technologies also includes the Dawn Urdu’s website, ePaper, DawnNews TV’s website and several other projects.

Developed modules for DAWN.COM on IBM WebSphere Portal. Maintained and created other portlets and templates for the website. In addition to that, there were other projects for desktop and in house use.

Responsibilities included adding the newspaper content on daily basis along with the rich formatting of stories, images and other art galleries. Developed a few additional static pages for the website as per requirement.

Responsible for the data entry of the several hundreds of advertisements for the daily Newspaper. Tested the application software which is now being used in 10-15 different advertisement agencies.

Circulation Dept, The DAWN Media Group, Haroon House, KHI