MOHAMMED ABDUL SIRAJ

Bangalore, India | +91-9620900850| abd.siraj@gmail.com

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER - Project Management Professional

Innovative Career Technologist with over 14 years’ experience delivering creative, client-centric tools, with value-
driven solutions. Proven leadership experience ranging from evaluating technology to discovered niche products for
bootstrapped startups. Highly data-driven creationist, committed to designing coherent enterprise platforms with a wide
range of technical domain expertise and business acumen. Entrepreneur of three successful technology startup
showcasing ability to drive change through consensus within an organization.

CORE COMPETENCES

✓ Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) ✓ Portfolio and Program Management ✓ Agile Project Management
✓ Full Lifecycle Product Management ✓ Technical Architecture ✓ Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
✓ Capacity Management ✓ Team Building and Development ✓ IT Service Management and Delivery
✓ Risk Management ✓ Stakeholder Engagement ✓ User Experience (UX)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Islamicly | Bangalore, India - Chief Technology Officer - October 2018 - Present

Oversee all product development for startup focused on delivering the most accurate and well analyzed real time information on
shariah compliance of globally listed stocks, opening up the global equities market for Islamic retail investors

▪ Determine strategic direction of product development and uphold the company’s position at the forefront of technology
by focusing on product content and user design.
▪ Manage mobile app development, web application development, business intelligence, and business analysis teams.
▪ Troubleshoot and correct complex issues with an emphasis on real-time and historical data rendering.
▪ Supervised a team of over 20 members entailing App developers, back-end developers, frond-end developers, designers
and QA Testers

FlyRemit | Bangalore, India - Chief Technology Officer - May 2016 - Present

Oversee all product development for startup focused on digital solution for remitting money. The aim is to make all modes of
overseas payment hassle free, Digital KYC implementation, compliance and payment integration.

▪ Determine strategic direction of product development and uphold the company’s position at the forefront of technology
by focusing on product content and user design.
▪ Manage web application development, business intelligence, and business analysis teams.
▪ Troubleshoot and correct complex issues with an emphasis on real-time and historical data rendering.
▪ Supervised a team of over 15 members entailing back-end developers, frond-end developers, designers and QA Testers

FxKart | Bangalore, India - PROJECT MANAGER - July 2014 – Apr 2016

United Arab Shipping Company | Dubai - Senior Software Developer - June 2013 – July 2014

United Arab Shipping Company | Kuwait - Senior Software Developer - Mar 2009 – May 2013

Aiwa gulf | Kuwait - Software Developer - Sept 2007 – Feb 2009

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Roles across the career:

▪ Spearheading organizational technology to help business to grow by conceptualizing roadmap, strategy &
framework; revamping the entire IT Infrastructure while facilitating company transformation into secure
enterprise class organization
▪ Managing resource planning, SOW, technical direction, effort estimation, tracking, risk management &
mentoring
▪ Driving the entire gamut of operations pertaining to vendor/partner strategy & implementing a framework to
influence & ensure vendor/partner satisfaction
▪ Driving Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) including product strategy & vision, roadmaps, PLM ownership,
requirements prioritization, release management, trade off decisions, oversight of specifications and
development life cycle, strategic partner’s liaison for development/ releases, so on
▪ Hands-on experience in consulting practice with proven capabilities in capturing as-Is process, preparing
functional specifications, business blueprint document, analyzing the gaps and preparing test cases
▪ Providing leadership and overall direction for Product Architecture, Design and Releases, in lieu of rapidly
changing, highly competitive marketplace; driving business strategy & 'big picture' focusses for the assigned
business unit
▪ Directing end-to-end delivery of the program, meeting internal and external objectives pertaining to:
o Estimation, Risk, Scope, Time, Resource, Quality and Change Management
o Value-adds, continuous process and productivity improvement and expectation management of team
▪ Designing and delivering effective corporate, information Technology & business continuity programs mapped
to compliance standards
▪ Enhancing stakeholder satisfaction through timely roll-out of critical initiatives, maintaining updated process
documentation; working on enhancing program management capability in the organization
▪ Directing Change Control Board around managed services of business encompassing new software and process
improvement
▪ Administering IT Managed Services, Technology Partners Engagements, Risks, Performance reviews,
Technology events
▪ Directing & undertaking large-scale, complex programs with a focus on technology transformation;
collaborated with leadership teams to evaluate technology challenges; formulating operating budgets of the
projects & programs to ensure optimum utilization of available funds towards the accomplishment of overall
objectives
▪ Developing influential relationships with business leaders across the organization like ecosystem technology
partners to deliver change to fulfil needs of business
▪ Harnessing technology innovation by empowering others and driving digital agenda of the organization

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS

• BS, Computer Science, VTU Belgaum, Karnataka, India 2007

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Certified ABAP Workbench Fundamentals and Concepts (Web AS 7.0)
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
• ITIL V3 Foundation Certification
• Certified Web Application Security Professional
• IBM Cognos 8 Planning Analyst Build Modules (ver. 8.4)
• Certification Developing Applications using Core Java
• Certification Course in Computer Hardware

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Skills

Task management, prioritization, delegation, task separation, scheduling, risk management, Scrum.

Planning
Analysis, conceptual skills, brainstorming, decision-making, forecasting, logistics, problem-solving skills,
cost-assessment, requirements-gathering.

Programming
Web: ASP.Net, C#, VB, Angular 6+, Angular JS, Java, HTML, JavaScript, Microservices, Web API
Mobile: Flutter

Databases
Working knowledge of OLTP and OLDB; relational databases including SQL, MySQL and MS SQL; and
non- relational NoSQL databases including Key-value, Column, and Object based.


Cloud
Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Amazon Web Services; Microsoft Azure

Office and Productivity Applications

MS Excel and MS Visio Power user; Proficient with MS Word, PowerPoint, and Project; Office 365;
Google Apps; Slack; Trello; Zapier; Basecamp; Atlassian Jira.

Certifications

Companies Worked In

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