Afghanistan Central Bank (Da Afghanistan Bank - DAB)

Headed development of tools aimed at promoting digital banking, financial inclusion, and automation of bank operations. Maintained development, test, production, CD, and monitoring environments. Oversaw, guided, and reviewed merge requests for a small team of 3 developers. Planned, communicated, and coordinated technical integration with payment institutions.

- Led creation of solution enabling account access without internet serving 20K users
- Digitized settlement system, saving $10K in vendor costs and reducing settlement time by 90%
- Implemented two-factor authentication for transactions, enabling online banking for 1M customers

Senior Software Developer

Afghanistan Payments System (APS)

Developed in-house software to optimize workflows, and remedy vendor software. Researched, documented, planned, and executed the integration of the country's main payment processing system with banks, government sectors, payment, and microfinance institutions.

- Oversaw successful integration with banks and payment institutions, resulting in connection with 10+ entities
- Devised middleware routing SMS to mobile operators via single connection, enabling transaction notifications for 50K customers 
- Coded tools automating manual integration tests, reduced integration time and effort by 20%

Analyzed, documented, learned, and trained peers on bank transaction flows and operations. Devised flow and assisted the implementation of government bill payment transactions.

- Programmed dashboard retrofitting vendor's outdated ticket system, reducing issue resolution time by 3x
- Trained peers on ISO8583 format and transaction troubleshooting, increasing integration speed by 30%
- Resolved long-standing problem with issuing prepaid cards, saved company $4000 of vendor costs
- Modeled and documented government bill payment transactions, connecting 2 major government sectors

Software Developer

Blumont, Inc.

(formerly known as International Relief and Development)
- Developed unit-tested systems in an agile environment using Spring Framework, Backbone.js, PostgreSQL, and JasperReports for smartphone data capture and reporting; systems were used to monitor and inform on the progress of reconstruction projects funded by the World Bank
- Used Jira, trunk-based development with SVN, TDD, code reviews, Jenkins, and agile methodologies to develop multi-module maven project
- Provided customer support, collected reviews, and feedback from the users

Full-Stack developer with 6+ years of experience with Kotlin, Java, JavaScript and TypeScript. Mainly worked with Spring, Angular and PostgreSQL but have worked with and can quickly learn other languages, tools and libraries. History of work with central bank of Afghanistan and an international NGO.

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