Raza Sultan

Senior software engineer and technical lead with 12+ years building and scaling enterprise web and mobile platforms across agriculture-tech, media, and enterprise SaaS. Specialise in .NET Core, Angular, and Node.js architectures — microservices, event-driven systems, and offline-capable mobile apps — delivered end to end from discovery to production support. Lead cross-functional teams of up to 6 engineers and partner directly with US-based stakeholders.

Actively engineering AI into products and delivery workflows: LLM API integration, retrieval-augmented features, and agentic coding tooling adopted across the team.

Senior Software Engineer at Contour Software (2021-10 – Present)

Lead full-stack engineering for a US-based product team, translating stakeholder requirements into scalable technical solutions and owning feature delivery, architecture, and production support across multiple business-critical systems.

• Architected a Resources & Project Management platform (ASP.NET Core, Angular, TypeScript, DevExpress, MS-SQL) with Web APIs, background jobs, and Windows services — reducing manual scheduling effort / cycle time by 90%.
• Built a digital document-signing platform (ASP.NET, Vue.js, Vuetify, MS-SQL) automating secure signing workflows and eliminating hours of manual processing per month.
• Delivered a unified sales management solution across web and mobile, adopted by thousands field users across the multiple regions.
• Engineered an offline-capable warehouse management system for low-connectivity field sites, cutting inventory reconciliation errors by 90%.
• Mentor 3 engineers on architecture and code quality; introduced AI-assisted development practices that shortened feature turnaround by 50%.

Team Lead, Software Development at Abtach (Rubics Media) (2021-01 – 2021-10)

Led a team of 4 developers across client-facing mobile and real-time platform projects, balancing hands-on delivery with technical leadership, code quality, and release ownership.

• Architected a real-time, cross-platform support chat system spanning a web app, iOS/Android apps, and an embeddable widget — serving thousands concurrent users.
• Stack: Angular, Ionic, PWA, Node.js, NestJS, MongoDB, Firebase, Redis, Socket.IO, Docker, Nginx, Linux.

Assistant Vice President, Engineering at Syscrowd (2020-03 – 2021-01)

Owned end-to-end delivery for in-house and client software programmes while leading a team of 6 developers and working directly with stakeholders on business-aligned outcomes.

• Architected the BOL News management platform — a high-volume, real-time newsroom system handling thousands articles/day across web, mobile, APIs, and background services (Angular, Ionic, ASP.NET Core, Node.js, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Redis, Socket.IO, Docker).
• Delivered scalable CRM and CMS platforms for enterprise clients on the same architecture, supporting thousands users.

Software Architect at Axact (2016-10 – 2020-03)

Led a team of 5 developers across in-house and client projects, owning architecture and end-to-end delivery of enterprise software.

• Designed and delivered a multi-channel support chat system — web app, mobile apps, embeddable widgets, Web APIs, and background services (AngularJS, Ionic, ASP.NET, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Redis, Socket.IO, Docker, Nginx).
• Recognized with multiple Diamond, Platinum, and Gold Performer awards for delivery impact.

Mobile Apps Development Consultant (part-time) at Techstirr (2019-04 – 2020-03)

Advised on mobile architecture and led a delivery team shipping 50+ client-facing iOS/Android applications.

Software Engineer at Curious Labx (2013-11 – 2016-03)

Started career delivering client-based web and mobile applications end to end, from requirements gathering through release. (Brief PHP engagement at Tectutive, Mar–May 2016.)

BS in Computer Science – Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (2012 – 2016)