Open to Senior / Lead Software Engineer Roles

Arslan Mushtaq

Lead Software Engineer · 10+ Years · Pakistan / U.A.E

I architect and scale products in regulated industries like fintech and health-tech with a track record of eliminating manual QA dependency (100% → 20%), slashing build times by ~85%, and shipping products used by 25,000+ users. I specialise in server-driven UI, micro-frontend architecture (Re.pack), and building the CI/CD and observability infrastructure that keeps production stable at scale.

10+
Years Experience
18
Products Developed
85%
Build Time Reduced
80%
QA Automation
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Projects

Things I've Built

A selection of personal experiments and professional deliverables across mobile, web, and backend.

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PulseBoard

Monitoring & Observability Platform

An open-source mobile observability platform featuring crash analytics, real-time WebSocket event streaming, AI-powered insights via Anthropic/OpenAI/Google/Moonshot, and a React Native SDK. Self-hostable backend on Railway, web dashboard on Vercel.

Next.jsVercelReact NativeNode.jsFastifyPostgreSQLRedisRailwayBullMQ
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React Native SDK
MobileFreelance
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KMIH 88.9 Radio

Student Operated Radio Station

KMIH 88.9 The Bridge is a student-operated radio station at Mercer Island High School. The platform allows users to live stream the station and explore various shows broadcast on KMIH 88.9 The Bridge, which has been recognized as the best high school radio station.

React Native CLIReact NavigationAxiosSpotify Web APIReact QueryFirebase
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Loan Manager v1.0

Informal Loan Management Platform

Loan Manager, a mobile-first product focused on bringing structure and reliability to informal personal lending. Millions of people lend and borrow money within their personal networks without proper tracking, instalment visibility, or accountability systems. Over time, this lack of structure creates missed repayments, unclear expectations, and strained relationships.

React NativeJava Spring BootRedisPostgreSQL
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Technical Skills

My Tech Stack

Tools and technologies I rely on daily to architect, build, and ship production-grade mobile platforms.

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Mobile

13 skills
React Native CLIReact Native ExpoMicro-Frontend Architecture (Re.pack)Server-Driven UIRedux ToolkitRedux SagaRedux ThunkZustandWebSocketsREST APIsGraphQLiOS OptimisationAndroid Optimisation
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CI/CD & Release

6 skills
GitHub ActionsFastlaneBitriseCircleCIMulti-Environment PipelinesAutomated Quality Gates
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Quality & Observability

9 skills
AppiumWebDriverIODetoxJestRNTLDynatraceSentryMixPanelLuciq
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CMS / Analytics

10 skills
StrapiDirectusWordPressCustomer.ioIntercomLooker StudioFirebase AnalyticsCrashlyticsDatadogGrafana

// And always learning more...

Experience

Professional Journey

Over 10 years of engineering leadership across fintech, health-tech, and telecom industries.

Lead

Lead Software Engineer

AmegaCyprus (Remote)Jun 2024 – Nov 2025

Sole architect and founding engineer for 3 React Native applications built from scratch. Owning the full stack from architecture and foundation to CI/CD, release governance, and team delivery.

  • Architected a Turborepo monorepo to power a unified cross-platform frontend ecosystem (Yoka, Fundix, Amega Capital), centralizing CI/CD gateways, testing configurations, and linting standards (ESLint, Commitlint).
  • Engineered a shared API and State foundation (Zustand, React Query, Axios), strictly enforcing DRY principles and eliminating massive codebase duplication, drastically accelerating time-to-market for shared business logic.
  • Designed a high-performance asset delivery pipeline using a Cloudflare CDN to offload heavy 3D assets, slashing initial application bundle sizes from 300+ MB to under 200 MB across four concurrent platforms.
  • Established comprehensive CI/CD and Quality Assurance infrastructure for the web application via GitHub Actions and Fastlane, slashing deployment build times from 1 hour 40 minutes to under 10 minutes.
  • Integrated Cypress with BrowserStack for robust End-to-End (E2E) testing, driving a 60% to 75% reduction in manual QA efforts across concurrent platforms.
  • Delivered 60fps UI performance by implementing React Native Reanimated and Gesture Handler for complex mobile interactions, while maintaining parity on the Next.js web client using Tailwind CSS and Lottie.
  • Spearheaded a cross-functional data-layer migration from REST to GraphQL on the Wanz social feed, resolving fatal memory leaks and eliminating UI thread blocking by enforcing on-demand relational data fetching.
  • Standardized engineering onboarding and UI documentation by implementing an interactive Storybook environment with comprehensive visual, interaction, and accessibility (a11y) runbooks; actively mentored engineers, resulting in two direct promotions to Senior and Lead roles.
Senior

Senior Software Engineer

NovosUnited States (Remote)Apr 2023 – Jun 2024

Sole mobile architect for a greenfield React Native application for a health-tech platform serving 25,000+ active users.

  • Led the technical architecture and end-to-end delivery of a health-tech platform scaling to 25,000+ active users, enforcing strict performance optimizations and release stability.
  • Engineered an AI-powered health chatbot interface leveraging longevity and wellness data, delivering dynamic personalized guidance and significantly increasing platform engagement.
  • Architected a Server-Driven UI (SDUI) pipeline integrated with a headless CMS, decoupling product logic from deployment cycles and enabling the medical team to publish complex questionnaire flows without engineering intervention.
  • Optimized the mobile acquisition funnel, driving a 12% increase in platform traffic and an 8% uplift in e-commerce revenue.
Senior

Senior Software Engineer

S4 Digital → ProximusPakistan (Hybrid)Sep 2021 – Mar 2023

Deployed to Proximus (Belgium's largest telecom) to engineer and maintain high-scale mobile solutions within a large distributed engineering organisation.

  • Engineered and deployed isolated feature modules within a React Native micro-frontend architecture (Re.pack), enabling autonomous, conflict-free deployments across a massive distributed engineering organization.
  • Diagnosed and resolved critical rendering bottlenecks using React DevTools and Android Studio profilers, securing a stable 60fps frame rate for real-time network monitoring workflows.
  • Executed rigorous APK build analysis to optimize native dependencies and manifest configurations, slashing overall application size from over 250MB to under 200MB.
  • Authored comprehensive technical documentation for proprietary codebase modules, standardizing integration protocols and accelerating cross-squad knowledge transfer.
  • Grew automated E2E test coverage from 45% to 80% using Appium and WebDriverIO, eliminating a full class of regression bugs before they could reach millions of production users.
Associate

Associate Software Engineer

EcologixPakistan (On-site)Sep 2019 – Aug 2021

Led engineering delivery for high-traffic mobile applications, coordinating across a 12-person cross-functional team.

    Engineer

    Software Engineer

    Juice PhactreeCanada (Remote) - Part TimeSep 2015 – Aug 2020

    Founding mobile engineer, built the company's internal React Native mobile applications from scratch, owning the architecture and full mobile ecosystem.

      Education

      Academic Background

      Bachelor of Computer Science

      Minhaj University Lahore

      Lahore, Pakistan · 2015 – 2019

      President — Application Development Club: Founded the club to expose students to industry-standard product development. Organised bootcamps, hackathons, and seminars.
      Winner at Softec'19: Built a Netflix-like mobile app in 28 hours at FAST-NU competition using Kotlin/Android, securing 1st prize and PKR 50,000.
      Organized the Annual Dinner 2015, establishing a tradition that has continued as an annual event ever since. This initiative marked the beginning of the Annual Dinner tradition at the university after 22 years.

      Intermediate of Computer Science

      Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Arab Pakistani College

      Abu Dhabi, U.A.E · 2011 – 2013

      Certifications

      Learn Intermediate Python 3

      Codecademy

      Learn Python 3

      Codecademy

      Learn React.js

      Codecademy

      Learn Java

      Codecademy

      Learn SQL

      Codecademy

      Meta iOS Development

      Coursera

      Meta Android Development

      Coursera

      100+ Certifications

      LinkedIn Learning

      Giving Back

      Volunteering

      Guest Speaker — Google I/O Extended 2019

      Presented "Introduction to Kotlin" at LUMS, covering Kotlin fundamentals and its advantages over Java in Android development. Organised by GDG Lahore.

      Speaker — Tech Tology Lahore Chapter Launch

      Presented on the enjoyable aspects of constructing Android applications, demystifying Android development for attendees.

      Speaker — Tech Tology & Devenings

      Delivered a presentation on Firebase services and their practical applications in real-world scenarios, highlighting how Firebase can be leveraged to build and scale applications efficiently while accelerating the overall development process.

      Speaker — Minhaj University Lahore

      Delivered a seminar on Programming Fundamentals, focusing on how programming concepts can be applied to solve real-world problems effectively.

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      Something Great

      I'm currently open to Senior and Lead React Native opportunities. If you have a project or role that could use someone who cares deeply about architecture, quality, and shipping — let's talk.

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