Shafi Ahmed

About Shafi Ahmed

Strong Technical Architect with 16 years of experience in a variety of roles. Fast and continuous learner, strong and effective Architect.I\'ve expertise in architectural design and development of 50 iOS (iPhone & iPad) apps in last 9 years.Prior to iOS, Swift and Objective-C, I’ve been programming in C++/VC++/VB for nearly 7 years. I was passionate about developing Active-X controls (Dll & Ocx) and feature-rich Desktop applications.I\'ve managed project teams of software developers up to 40 people, both Agile and Waterfall development environments.My experience encompasses: • Breaking down large scale projects into manageable chunks • Project estimation (Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Contemporary) • Explaining to designers and developers what\'s required and overseeing the progress • Make sure the software and system architectures are in synchronisation • Make sure that the architecture is right for operations, deployment and sustainment • Act as the emissary of the architecture • Give input as needed to issues like tool and environment selection • Identify and interact with stakeholders to make sure their needs are being metIndustry Knowledge: • Software Architecture • Design Pattens (MVVM, MCV & others from Creational, Structural & Behavioral ) • Object Oriented Design • Agile Methodology • Software Development • Mobile Development • Web ServicesiOS: • iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Xcode • Core Animation, CoreGraphics, MessageUI, StoreKit, Push Notification • Multithreading (GCD, NSOperation) • Payment Gateway: PayPal, In-App Purchases • Size Classes, AutoLayout, Storyboard, • Google Map, Geolocation, GPS, MapKit • Webservice: REST, JSON, XML • Database: CoreData, SQLite • Third parties: Alamofire, AFNetworking, SDImage, GPUImage • Game: Cocos2d-x, Cocos2dWindows- • C++, VC++, VB, C#, wxWidgets • Active-X (dll, ocx) • Win32, DLL, OS—Project Management: ConceptDraw, JIRA, BaseCampVersion control : Github, BitBucket

Experience

1. Technical Architect

   Appster

   Feb 2017 — Present · Gurgaon, IN