Hi,
I’m Murtza. I build scalable, maintainable, cutting edge, cost effective, result oriented, profitable, ambitious web APPs/APIs. I strive to write clean, modular, fast, bug free, & semantic code. Writing code isn’t hard but writing efficient, scalable & manageable code is an art. I write efficient code with fast pace. I get into coding since 1999 and 17 years of vast experience gave me some good how know of programming art.

I am a father of two beautiful kids, a professional, highly organized, self driven, team player, reliable, adaptable and have good communication skills. I can work long hours. I am very flexible, down to earth, fun, humble, loyal & smart person.

In 2014 i start working with Elixir, Phoenix. I am open for employment and/or contract opportunity and if needed i can relocate but it depends upon my income and the living cost of the place.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
I have production experience with following programming languages.

• Ruby (8+ years of experience)
• Elixir (2+ years)
• HTML5 (17+ years)
• CSS3 (17+ years)
• Javascript (17+ years)
• PHP (6+ years)

In my free time, i have learnt following languages.
Erlang, Java, Python, Elm, Haskell, Scala, Swift, Go, C++, F#, Rust

FRAMEWORKS
I have production experience with following frameworks.

• Ruby on Rails
• Phoenix
• Wordpress
• Drupal
• jQuery
• React.js
• Bootstrap 4
• Foundation 6

In my free time, i have learnt following frameworks.
Play, Spring, Django, Ember.js, nerves

DATABASES
i have production experience with following databases.

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Redis

In my free time, i learnt following databases.
Riak, Neo4j, RethinkBD, CouchDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Storm, Spark, Mahout, HBase, Pig, Hive, Zookeeper

TOOLS
ElasticSearch, Apache Solr, Git/Github, SCSS/LESS, Vim, Emacs, Docker, Ansible, SaltStack, Vagrant, Apache Server, Nginx, Heroku, AWS, Ubuntu, CentOS, Mac OS X

EXPERTISE
I’ve expertise of following tools, techniques & industries.
• Version control with Git, Subversion
• Cloud server deployment to Heroku, AWS, EC2, S3, Lambda
• TDD and BDD testing with RSpec, MiniTest, Capybara etc
• Authentication & Authorization on Multi-tenant apps
• Message queueing with Resque, Sidekick, RabbitMQ
• Rake tasks, Complex DB Migrations & Cron tasks
• Encryption techniques i.e SHA 512, JWT, BCrypt etc
• Web Services SOAP, XML, JSON, REST, RPC
• Fragment caching, Action caching, Russian doll caching and Memcached
• Expert in SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, e-commerce, Payment integration
• Expert in Educational institution management systems
• Expert in Hospital management systems
• Expert in CMSs, CRMs & ERPs for Corporate Sector
• Expert in Inventory management systems
• Expert in building complex algorithms for social networking apps
• Expert in penetration testing, brute-force, ethical hacking
• Expert in automated web scraping & data mining
• Expert in Database Sharding, Replication & MicroServices
• Expert in direct client handling & public speaking
• Expert in schema designing, code refactoring
• Expert in Kali Linux and application load testing
• Expert in designing APIs for legacy CMS databases
• Expert in configuration management softwares
• Expert in building Real Time Communication systems
• Expert in building messaging & notification models
• Expert in Oauth2 for APIs i.e Facebook, Twitter & Github
• Expert in building customized reports, charts & graphs
• Expert in bug stack tracing, debugging & fixing
• Expert in automated deployment with Capistrano & Mina, eDeliver
• Expert in best security practices, SEO, Sitemaps & Meta tags
• Expert of firewalls, load balancing & data validations
• Expert in distributed scalable systems with Erlang, Elixir

EXPERIENCE

• Full Stack Developer
  June, 2015 - to date
  Semaphore Mobile LLC Dallas USA
  i work with them as an individual contractor on hourly bases.

• Full Stack Developer
  February, 2012 - June, 2015
  JuniorCru, Brisbane Australia

• Full Stack Developer
  July, 2010 - February 2012
  FashionSpace Singapore

• Full Stack Developer
  July, 2008 - July, 2010
  Pace Solutions, Lahore Pakistan

• Corporate Support Manager
  November 2006 - June 2008
  Wateen Telecom, Islamabad Pakistan

• Manager Customer Services
  August, 2001 - November, 2006
  Mobile Zone, Lahore Pakistan

• Accountant
  April 1999 - January, 2001
  CallMate Calling Card Distributer Gujranwala, Pakistan

• Freelance Developer
  August, 1999 - To Date
  Globally for multiple companies

• Waiter
  February 1999 - April, 1999
  Royal Garden Hotel, Gujranwala Pakistan

EDUCATION
I am a college drop out because i didn’t afford to pay college fees. My father was died and i started working as a Waiter in a restaurant, after sometime of hard work i become a Manager in a multinational company. I learn everything with so much patience & hard work.

Regards
Syed Murtza
Mobile: +92-300-841-1606
Twitter: Murtza (@Murtza) / X
Github: murtza (Murtza) · GitHub
Email: syed.murtza@gmail.com
Address: 21-A, Mian Aziz Garden, Jallo Road, Lahore, Pakistan