Ali Zia

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience in .NET and 4 years in Angular delivering software solutions across Healthcare, Banking & FinTech, E-commerce, CRM, Inventory Management, and Printing domains. Throughout my career, I have partnered with clients, product owners, and engineering teams to design and build secure, scalable, and high-performance applications that solve complex business challenges and drive results. As a side project/idea, I'm working on a AI Scribe for healthcare industry.

Senior Software Engineer at Nova Enterprises (2024-11 – Present)

• Involved in development of secure.NET Core applications with RBAC; designed multi-role access patterns for sensitive enterprise data.
• Developed multi-user collaborative document editing features with real-time synchronization (SignalR / WebSocket).
• Containerized microservices with Docker Containers.
• Implemented JWT/claims-based authentication across distributed services.
• Led code reviews and Agile ceremonies; authored architecture diagrams and API documentation.

Principal Software Engineer at Virtual Force Inc. (2019-11 – 2024-09)

• Fintech App: Developed a fintech system AWS cloud services (AWS EC2, ECS Fargate, RDS, S3). Created microservices for different Modules, communicate them with RabbitMQ. Applied SonarQube, and Sentry.
• Bayan Credit Bureau (KSA): Built enterprise web portal with custom multi-level workflow engine and RBAC. Integrated FortiAuthenticator SSO, improving login performance by 40%; resolved 200+ technical issues.
• HBL Bank: Developed secure ASP.NET banking interface with RBAC, integrated NIFT payment gateway, enforced AML/CFT compliance; resolved 150+ critical production security and backend issues.
• KFH Bank (Bahrain): Delivered secure multi-currency banking transactions with Temenos and FX payment integrations; strict data access controls for internal and external banking users.
• Code Logic / Microsoft (USA): Collaborated with Microsoft's engineering team on static and dynamic code analysis tools using Roslyn.NET and Neo4j.

Senior Software Engineer at Edward Milton SMC / Soft Steer (2018-03 – 2019-10)

• Built scheduling system, KPI dashboard, and staff management systems using ASP.NET Web API, Angular 2+, DevExtreme, and SQL Server for a London-based healthcare/fitness client.
• Have been working on staff scheduler for attendance and shift planning; built role-aware data views and management reporting modules.

Software Engineer at Print MIS (2014-01 – 2018-02)

• Developed white-label e-commerce web-to-print portals using ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, jQuery, CSS3, Bootstrap
• Built dynamic cost estimator and a Fabric.js design editor with PDF export.
• Resolved client's production issues and provide support.NET Web Developer (Internship + Full-time job) at Soft Solutions (2012-11 – 2013-12)
• Learn JavaScript,.NET framework, HTML, CSS, SQL Server and how to develop a production graded web application for clients.
• Developed CMS-based ASP.NET C# applications with SQL Server; learned and implement stored procedures.

BSc in Computer Science – BUITEMS, University of Engineering & Technology (2008 – 2012)