I'm Farhat Abbas - Computer Science Graduate from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan. I have over 15+ years of experience in software engineering and management, research and development, leadership and mentoring.Expert at analyzing and solving the most complex problems using leading-edge technologies. My Cloud-Based Tracking and Business Intelligence platforms have saved 100’s of lives and helped several clients including Governments, Defence, Media, Logistics, NGOs, and others to achieve operational excellence in 150+ countries across the globe.
In addition to my extensive experience, I have played a crucial role in promoting engineering excellence at Wayfair and I am currently contributing to the success of Delivery Hero by exploring new business opportunities globally. Through my leadership and guidance, I help organizations navigate challenges, foster innovation, and ensure continuous growth and success. With a deep understanding of the industry and a passion for driving technological advancements, I strive to empower teams and deliver impactful solutions that propel organizations forward.
Hands-on Secure Software Development, RESTful APIs, Global Satellite & GSM Tracking, IOS/Android Tracking, Fleet Monitoring, Journey Management, Driver & Passenger Safety, Vehicle Safety & Maintenance, Personnel Tracking, Location Intelligence, Big Data Aggregation, Data Visualization, Information Security & Data Privacy, Advanced Communication, Raster & Vector Mapping, Default & Custom Routing, Geofencing and Geocoding.
Worked on Python, PHP, Go, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Node JS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Brooklin, Apache Druid, Kafka, Hadoop, Apache Superset, B2B Integrations, Leaflet, OpenLayers, Mapbox GL, OSRM (Routing Machine), OSM (OpenStreetMap), DevExtreme, Highcharts, JavaScript, Bootstrap, ES6, JQuery, MobileIron (Mobile Device Management), Google DataStudio, QlikView Enterprise (Business Intelligence), Adobe Creative Suite, Balsamiq, Gliffy, and Ionic (Hybrid App Development Framework)
Grade: Overall Percentage 79%
Grade: Overall Percentage 81.11%
Grade: Overall Percentage 89%
Display Ads Services facilitates AMs to book display campaigns for advertisers, encompassing vendors, chains, and external partners. Our platform empowers these advertisers to foster brand awareness through premium advertising across multiple platform screens. We have an end-to-end offering, providing back-office solutions for campaign booking and management, endpoints for ad requests, and monitoring the campaign's performance. Our service supports various ad formats such as banner, video, and search displays, to drive business growth for verticals such as restaurants, partners, and shops. We've successfully integrated and launched Display Ads on 4 major platforms across APAC, MENA, EU, and LATAM regions, covering around 45 countries.
Technology Stack: GCP, Google Big Query, Google Pub/Sub, Kevel, Github, Go Lang, Redis, PostgreSQL, React Framework, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog
The restaurant supply chain app, built using Flutter and a Python backend deployed on Kubernetes, is a robust solution that efficiently manages restaurant supply chain operations. It provides a seamless user experience across multiple platforms with its Flutter front end. By leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration, the app ensures scalability, reliability, and efficient handling of high volumes of data and user requests. With a global user base of 5000+ vendors, the app simplifies ordering, inventory management, and logistics coordination, enabling vendors to effectively manage their supply chain processes and ensure timely delivery of food and ingredients.
Technology Stack: AWS, RDS PostgreSQL, Python Flask, Flutter Framework, Google Big Query, Kubernetes, Docker, Graphana, Kibana, ReactJS, CSS Bootstrap
Vendor Analytics is a comprehensive, customized analytics solution specifically designed for vendors operating across APAC, ME, EU, & LATAM regions in the restaurant industry. The tool enables deep analysis of vendor and supplier data, providing valuable insights into performance, inventory management, pricing, and more with 0 licensing cost. This powerful tool empowers vendors to gain valuable business insights, optimize their strategies, and make data-driven decisions.
Technology Stack: AWS, RDS PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Superset, Google Big Query, Kubernetes, Docker, Graphana, Kibana, ReactJS, CSS Bootstrap, OAuth Keymaker
The Proof of Concept (PoC) account integration feature in the restaurant supply chain app enables vendors to seamlessly connect their accounts with external platforms like XERO, QuickBooks Online, SQL Accouting, and FreshBooks, unlocking new monetization opportunities for their business. By integrating with popular accounting systems like Xero, QuickBooks, or FreshBooks, vendors can streamline their financial processes, automate data synchronization, and gain real-time visibility into their financial performance. This integration empowers vendors to efficiently manage invoices, track payments, and reconcile transactions, leading to improved cash flow management and enhanced profitability.
Technology Stack: AWS, RDS PostgreSQL, Python Flask, Kubernetes, Integration with XERO, QuickBooks, SQL Accouting, Freshbooks, Stripe Payments
An order lifecycle transparency, aggregated network statistics, and real-time exception prediction solution for WayFair Supply Chain Management using Big Data Engineering and Machine Learning Models. I turned an idea into a working solution in just 48 hours. The project has been taken over by the SCM Team and will be implemented to save ~$10 Million/year in carrier operations.
Technology Stack: Python Flask, Jupyter Notebooks, MSSQL, Google Big Query, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Graphana, Kibana, VueJS, CSS Bootstrap
At Wayfair, we deal with very large amounts of data in a Hadoop cluster, often ranging over multiple petabytes with several dozens of terabytes of data arriving on a daily basis. I came up with a project plan and implemented an interactive solution to constantly monitor storage capacity, identity usage patterns, estimate storage requirements, and facilitate potential data migration to cloud (GCP) for existing business users to ensure business continuity.
Technology Stack: Python Flask, MariaDB, Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Google DataStudio, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Graphana, Kibana, LDAP, Puppet, Terraform
Improved existing ETL processes and developed an infrastructure (distributed) that works well with any event-oriented, clickstream, time-series, or telemetry data, especially streaming datasets from Apache Kafka. This system enables teams to ingest and query large volumes of data without compromising performance. I have also set up and enabled an intuitive interface for engineers and business users to explore and visualize their datasets to make data-driven decisions.
Technology Stack: Apache Druid, Apache Superset, MariaDB, Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, SQL, Presto, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Graphana, Kibana, LDAP, Puppet, Terraform
I built an API-driven Flask application handling over 100,000 calls per month performing at 90% cache efficiency to collect metrics associated with Github and Gitlab code reviews to cater code ownership and enable code quality reviews to reduce technical debt. I cleared several performance bottlenecks for large-scale deployments for a codebase with over 10M LOC (lines of code)
Technology Stack: Python, Flask, MSSQL, Redis, RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Github/Gitlab Integration, Graphana, Kibana, Puppet
I built an online geospatial analytical platform to access relevant information with powerful visualization options to help security experts, researchers, data analyst and journalist for decision-making. I manage to convert time-consuming manual data collection and reporting processes into an easy to use online system to collaborate then disseminate information with colleagues and executives with just a click of a button.
Technology Stack: CodeIgniter, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenLayers, Highcharts, DevExtreme Charts, RESTful APIs, Twitter API, Gmail Integration, Intelligence Fusion API, G4S API, ACLED API
A web-based project with one of the major Bank in UK to help them visualize and detect Fraudulent Credit Card Transactions across UK. The project was a great success as we visualized ~1.5 Million transactions at once on the map using some advanced mapping techniques.
Technology Stack: CodeIgniter, PHP, Bootstrap, JQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ETL, OpenLayers, TileStache, Mapproxy, MorrisJS Charts, RESTful APIs, Geofencing, Geocoding
A collection of RESTful APIs to support geospatial data processing and mapping server similar to Google/Mapbox to visualize information. I built & setup in-house mapping technology stack including mapping, routing, elevation, and geocoding servers to help us process, aggregate and visualize big data at no or minimal cost.
Technology Stack: Laravel, PHP, Bootstrap, JQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenStreetMap, OSRM (open source routing engine) Osmosis, Imposm3, GDAL, OpenLayers, Leaflet, DevExtreme Charts, RESTful APIs, Routing, Geofencing, Geocoding, Elevation
I built a web-based application that makes journey management easy. It helps customers to plan and schedule journeys, dispatch resources, monitor movement and review the use of resources. Ultimately, It helps customers make their journey management more efficient while helping to keep their employees safe.
Technology Stack: Laravel, PHP, Bootstrap, JQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenLayers, DevExtreme Charts, RESTful APIs, Routing, Geofencing, Geocoding
A secure cloud based application to help large organisations to track their people in frontier regions to ensure safety and used of various Data Science techniques to combine multiple data sources and Algorithms to help executives answer difficult questions on demand at minimal cost and time.
Technology Stack: CodeIgniter, PHP, Bootstrap, JQuery, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ETL, OpenLayers, D3.js, NvD3, RESTful APIs, International SOS integration, Geocoding
A web-based real-time monitoring platform to visualise mission critical information with options to collaborate and respond to real time alerts triggered by people operating in remote locations. GRID has saved 100’s of lives of people operating in High-Risk regions.
Technology Stack: NodeJS, Sockets, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Redis, OpenLayers, RESTful APIs, GPS Feeds, Satellite Feeds, Routing, Geofencing, Geocoding
An Smartphone App that let our customers locate their staff when it matters, enabling a quick and effective response, and keeping their team safe. SearchLight our recent development in response to the unpredictable incidents/disruptions we are seeing across Europe & the US.
Technology Stack: Laravel, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GPS Tracking, RESTful APIs, ZenDrvie Integration, Twilio API
A platform that gathers data from vehicle sensors and telematics devices to monitor Fleet Movement and Drivers’ Behaviour where every vehicle and driver receives their own DriveSafe score allowing organisations to monitor improvements in safety over time.
Technology Stack: Laravel, CodeIgniter, PHP, Python, Pandas, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Bootstrap, Zurb Foundation, DevExtreme, D3.js, OpenLayers, RESTful APIs, GPS Feeds, Routing APIs, Geocoding APIs