Mohammad Afzal

About Mohammad Afzal

Experienced Lead Engineer with 10+ years of building and deploying scalable, cloud-native web applications across monolithic and microservices architectures. Skilled in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, ReactJS, and Angular. Experienced in designing RESTful APIs, integrating Stripe payments, and deploying secure, high-performance solutions on AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3) with Jenkins and Github Actions for CI/CD. Strong in Linux system administration, infrastructure optimization, and DevOps practices. Ledfull-cycle ERP and SaaS product development in both product and service environments. Active Stack Overflow contributor with 8K+ reputation.

Experience

1. Senior Staff Engineer - First Abu Dhabi Bank (Via Nagarro)

   First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)

   Oct 2025 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Working as part of FAB’s digital banking engineering team through Nagarro, contributing to the modernization and stability of mission-critical banking applications used by millions of customers across the UAE.I support end-to-end development, bug resolution, performance tuning, and feature enhancement across FAB’s enterprise systems.Key Responsibilities - Lead end-to-end bug fixing, issue reproduction, debugging and patch releases across multiple digital banking modules- Modernizing legacy FAB web applications by refactoring code, improving UI/UX, upgrading frameworks, and migrating components to more scalable, maintainable structures- Enhancing system performance, reliability, and security, ensuring compliance with strict UAE banking standards- Collaborating with FAB product owners, QA teams, and internal stakeholders to analyze requirements, fix defects, and deliver high-quality software updates- Conducting code optimizations, improving API response times, reducing memory footprint and resolving bottlenecks in backend and frontend components- Supporting production deployments, hotfixes, and release cycles to ensure uninterrupted banking operations- Building utilities, automation scripts, and development tools to streamline debugging and development workflows- Providing continuous support for high-priority incidents, ensuring service continuity for customers.

Education

• Uttarakhand Technical University

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

  2011 — 2015

• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

  Executive PG Programme, Data Science

• Liverpool John Moores University

  Master of Science - MS, Data Science

Skills

• Mysql
• C
• Netbeans
• Eclipse
• Bootstrap
• C++
• Javase
• Jax-Rs
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Postgresql
• Jsf
• Css
• Php
• Jquery UI
• Dreamweaver
• Ejb
• Javaee
• Aerospike
• Wildfly
• Restful Webservices
• Struts
• Web Design
• Typing
• Html
• Angularjs
• Jboss Developer Studio
• Servlets
• Jsp
• Javascript
• Jquery
• Less