Abdul Ghafoor

Team Lead (Mobile App Developers)

Gtech • Full time

Apr 2023 - Present • 3 yrs 3 mos

Aligned cross-functional teams on technical requirements and project milestones by facilitating requirement gathering sessions, leading to a 15 % reduction in scope creep. Partnered with 5+ cross-functional Agile teams, including developers, testers, and stakeholders, ensuring seamless communication and the on-time delivery of critical mobile applications. Successfully deployed 15+ mobile applications on the Google Play and Apple App Store while ensuring full compliance with platform policies, review guidelines, and security standards. Responsible for integrating and maintaining core mobile application functionalities and background services, including CI/CD pipelines, real-time chat, navigation and mapping services (Mapbox, Google Maps), push notifications, localization, OTA updates, Google AdMob, Firebase services (Cloud Functions, Google Analytics, Firestore, Storage), and real-time voice/video calling solutions using Agora. Integrated and optimized GraphQL & RESTful APIs with a strong focus on memory utilization, CPU optimization, and resource management, enabling high-performance mobile applications to efficiently support 3x higher concurrent user loads across Android and iOS platforms. Leveraged Al-powered development tools, including Cursor and Antigravity, to accelerate software development workflows, improve code quality, and enhance productivity by up to 10x.

Mobile and Web App Developer

Crowdbotics • Full time

Sep 2021 - Mar 2023 • 1 yr 6 mos

Engineered pixel-perfect, responsive Uls using React and React Native across iOS and Android, improving app performance by 3x and enhancing consistency. Collaborated in Agile sprints with product, design, and QA teams to deliver 10+ new features on schedule, aligning solutions with client requirements and improving user satisfaction by 20%. Architected and modularized the React Native application codebase using Redux Toolkit and Redux Saga for scalable state management, reducing unnecessary API calls by 30% and improving overall application performance and maintainability. Led Agile ceremonies and coordinated a cross-functional team of 10+ developers, designers, and QA to meet project milestones and drive timely deliveries.