Qudrat Ullah Senior Lead Software Engineer
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Qudrat Ullah

Senior Lead Software Engineer

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Senior Lead Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience delivering scalable, high-performance products for startups and global enterprises. Adept at architecting complex platforms, leading distributed teams, and bridging business and engineering goals. Passionate about modern web stacks, DevOps, and solving hard problems that drive real business value.
Experience
Engineering Team Lead — Loopla
Mar 2023 – Present | London, UK
  • Architected booking engine supporting 100+ checkout flows, opening a new financial revenue stream.
  • ~300% infrastructure cost reduction and ~400% performance improvement via GCP microservices, autoscaling, and architectural redesign.
  • Terraform IaC with disaster recovery and failover; CI/CD accelerating releases from days to minutes with zero-downtime deployments.
  • Introduced E2E test suites and deployment automations eliminating manual intervention across the release process.
  • Built and maintained 9+ microservices; mentored developers, streamlined QA and release processes.
Lead Software Engineer — IT Comrade Inc.
Mar 2017 – Mar 2023
  • Blavatnik Archive (Team Lead): Lambda image pipeline, custom multi-source image server, deep zoom viewer with collaborative annotation, Elasticsearch across 10,000+ records; 4 new clients attracted, two NEH grants totalling $397,000+.
  • NCBA CLUSA (Team Lead): Budget, Payroll, Timesheet and Financial Reporting systems for distributed international teams; first project exceeded expectations, contributing ~30% revenue growth.
  • Architected distributed microservices, enterprise CMS platforms, and high-performance REST APIs across multiple enterprise client engagements.
  • Introduced Agile; mentored developers and improved delivery velocity across all teams.
Co-Founder & CTO — FANGENT (Game Studio)
2019 – 2023 | Side Venture
  • Gun Shooter Strike: adaptive AI (A*, NavMeshes, Boid flocking), physics simulation; 500,000+ downloads generating ongoing AdMob revenue; 60% memory reduction, 35% FPS improvement.
  • Glitter Color By Number: automated content pipeline cutting production time 90%; ~300% uplift in ad revenue and in-app purchases via AdMob/RTB optimisation; 10,000+ downloads, app under 50 MB.
  • CTO, Emerging Company Award (2022); drove full monetisation strategy across both titles with sustained revenue growth.
Senior Software Engineer — Purelogics
Jun 2014 – Feb 2017
  • Venzi Media RTB platform: 10,000+ RPS, 50% faster data processing, 2x ad response improvement via caching and load balancing.
  • RecruitMeToday: US government API document verification automation; guided junior developers from requirements to deployment.
  • 30%+ API and database query improvements; delivered platforms in JavaScript, PHP, and CodeIgniter.
Notable Projects
  • Loopla — loopla.com
    100+ checkout flows; ~300% cost reduction, ~400% performance gain via microservices on GCP, Terraform IaC, zero-downtime CI/CD.
  • Blavatnik Archive — blavatnikarchive.org
    Lambda image pipeline, custom image server, deep zoom viewer, Elasticsearch across 10,000+ records. Two NEH grants ($397k+); 4 new clients.
  • Refuseniks & Activists — refuseniksactivists.org
    IIIF deep zoom, full-text search, and community submissions preserving Soviet Jewish migration archives.
  • NCBA CLUSA — ncbaclusa.coop
    Budget, Payroll, Timesheet and Financial Reporting systems for a global cooperative operating across multiple countries.
  • Venzi Media — venzimedia.com
    RTB platform handling 10,000+ RPS; 50% faster data processing, 2x ad response improvement.
  • Gun Shooter Strike — Play Store
    FPS game with adaptive AI (A*, NavMeshes, Boid flocking), physics simulation. 500,000+ downloads; 60% memory reduction, 35% FPS gain.
  • Glitter Color By Number — Play Store
    Automated content pipeline (90% time cut), remote hosting under 50 MB, ~300% ad revenue uplift. 10,000+ downloads.
  • PromoCodesForYou — promocodesforyou.com
    High-performance e-commerce affiliate platform. CJ New Publisher of the Year 2012; People's Choice 2013 and 2014.
  • RecruitMeToday — recruitmetoday.com
    Automated document verification via US government APIs; recruiter and applicant management interface.
  • Prestige Plus Accountants — prestigeplusaccountants.com.au
    Next.js website for Australian accounting practice; service pages, contact forms, WhatsApp integration, and local SEO.