Multiple managers in past roles have described Jibran as a product-minded engineer. Over a 10+ year career, he cultivated a skill for identifying and solving customer problems using software development. Having worked at companies of all sizes, from a 4-person startup to an 8,000 people strong multi-national (Stripe), he also has a unique perspective of seeing what does and does not work at different scales. Jibran uses these lessons to build teams and systems that scale with the business.
Acted as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for the project that launched Stripe's core offering to Croatia, Lichtenstein, and Gibraltar. Also, served as a DRI on a project to bring Stripe's multi-currency payouts functionality to a new region.
Initiated and got leadership buy-in for mid-sized projects by writing strategy review documents that included justifying the business needs and revenue projections.
Worked as part of multiple cross-functional teams for various projects during my time at Stripe.
Created and managed several landing pages and AdWords campaigns for a real estate agency based in the UAE.
Helped the team finalizing and shipping to the client an Android application that showcases their product line and helps their customers to select the most appropriate product for their use.
Led the overall technology strategy of the company and also mentored the team while trying to solve technical problems.
Created an Ionic/Cordova-based mobile app for a printing press. The app allows the sales agents to quickly generate quotes for printing jobs in the field.
Developed a Django-based property showcase site for a real estate agency in the UAE with integration to a leading property CRM system.
Managed the server infrastructure for the clients' projects. This includes services deployed in a multi-cloud environment and providers like Google Cloud, AWS, DigitalOcean, and WebFaction.
Ensured that the technology part of the business was handled according to our company's mindset.
Worked as a product development team member to make sure the team was providing products with the most impact on the business.
Assured that product requirements were translated to technical specs that led to fast product development.
Built a scraper to search and extract rankings from a popular restaurant ranking site using Python with BeautifulSoup.
Developed a couple of web pages that showed users some entities on a Google Map and allowed them to search and filter information, all processes assured using a Perl codebase.
Created an interactive web scraper that would take some input, use that to run a search on a popular ranking site, and extract the output using Perl.
50mm is a photo gallery web application that I made when I couldn't find anything matching my requirements. I wanted something that would work without a database, use an S3 backed image storage, and use the Imgix real-time image processing service to optimize the images displayed.
Not finding anything that fit the bill, I created 50mm in Golang. It uses the built-in HTTP server and Golang HTML templating. It integrates with S3 for the storage and uses Imgix for on-the-fly image processing.
In addition to powering my own gallery of photos, it is now used by at least two other people that I know of to showcase their own image collections.
I wanted to experiment with the Twitter API and create a bot. I came up with the idea of one that would tweet out random verses from the Quran every day and programmed it in Go.
A Go-based CLI tool to list and quickly connect to DigitalOcean droplets without needing to configure keys and other SSH options on the host system.
This utility allows me to quickly place SSH into the Digital Ocean droplets that I manage without explicitly having to configure them in my SSH config file. It is similar to how Google Cloud CLI allows using SSH in Google Cloud Compute instances.
I wanted to use a Medium-like editor on one of my projects that were using the Vue.js framework on the front end. Not finding anything that fit the bill at that time, I created my own by integrating the existing Medium Editor (GitHub.com/yabwe/medium-editor) into a Vue.js component.
When using the Go-based Gin web framework for a project, I missed the automatic reloading of Django whenever a dependency of the project changed.
I created a small library called Watchman and integrated it into Gin to fix that.
In 2016, I published a book on Django titled Django Project Blueprints.
This is a book for beginner Django developers that are looking to take their skills to the next level, and it teaches them advanced skills by showing them how to build seven mid-size projects, including an eCommerce site with a search functionality powered by Elasticsearch.
I built a Flutter-based mobile application to showcase the products of a veterinary medicine manufacturer. The back end is a WordPress site. I was provided with the APIs by the web developer.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
NFC Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research