Umair Sarfraz

Senior Software Engineer / Product Developer

Berlin, Germany

Experience

May 2023 - Present
1 year 11 months
Ingolstadt, Germany

Experienced Software Engineer

MediaMarktSaturn

Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
8 months
Berlin, Germany

Scientific Researcher

Technische Universität Berlin

Scientific Researcher and Developer for BeIntelli (be-intelli.com/). Primarily worked on the development of simulation, visualization & showcase applications for autonomous vehicles with a goal to make Aritificial Intelligence for autonomous vehicles more tangible and accessible to general public.

Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
1 year 7 months
Berlin, Germany

Technical Lead

IOTA Foundation

  • Contributed to the development of wallet application, SDKs and tooling applications for IOTA cryptocurrency network.
  • Led engineering teams focused on building developer tooling & payment processing applications for IOTA network.
  • Responsible for performance evaluation, career development, growth & OKR planning.
  • Technical Program Manager for liaising with cryptocurrency exchanges.
  • Mentoring and teaching engineers on the team.
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
6 months
Islamabad, Pakistan

React Native Developer

Emumba

Led a team of mobile application developers to build a cryptocurrency digital wallet and a reward-based agent application that incentivizes users with crypto tokens for sharing mobile sensory information.

Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
3 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany

Software Engineer

IOTA Foundation

IOTA Foundation is a global non-profit foundation incorporated and headquartered in Germany. It is a leading innovator in the cryptocurrency and Decentralized Ledger Technology (DLT) / Blockchain space. The Foundation's mission is to support the research and development of the protocol layer (aka the Tangle), allowing seamless information and value sharing, removing fees and enhancing trust between entities.

As a Software Engineer, I primarily worked as a lead developer on the official IOTA payment wallet (Trinity). The wallet was supported for all major desktop & mobile platforms. Additionally, I was also actively involved in the development and maintenance of client SDKs and tooling for IOTA network.

Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
1 year 7 months
Islamabad, Pakistan

Software Engineer

Wanclouds Inc

Wanclouds offers products and services to automate and solve challenges related to Cloud Security, Cloud Migrations & Disaster Recovery.

As a Software Engineer, I worked on a Cloud Monitoring web application Shepherd. The idea of Shepherd was to provide security monitoring services for cloud orchestration engines e.g., Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, OpenShift.

I was predominantly involved in the frontend development and deployment operations (devOps).

Languages

Urdu
Native
English
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

Oct 2016 - Jun 2019

COMSATS University Islamabad

Master's degree · Information Security

Oct 2012 - Jun 2016

COMSATS University Islamabad

Bachelor’s Degree · Computer Software Engineering

Oct 2015 - Present

University of Sargodha

Bachelor of Arts - BA · Political Science