Based in London, UK
I'm Syed Quadri, a hands-on engineer and technology leader. For more than 15 years I've written the code, shaped the architecture and led the teams behind platforms in fintech, e-commerce and digital agencies.
A few projects, what was wrong and what changed. Each one has a full write-up.
The Django platform lost its link to the FXall trading network with an error nobody could reproduce. I traced it on production to a corrupt timestamp in a session file.
Result: trading restored, plus automated monitoring and self-healing so it can't silently fail again.
Read the case study →Moved domains, certificates and hosting in-house onto AWS, added WAF and CloudFront, fixed database encoding and indexes, and introduced CI/CD with automated code review.
Result: less reliance on outside IT partners, stronger security, faster queries and quicker releases.
Read the case study →Every release waited for a sysadmin to copy code by hand. I built "FlixBot", a dashboard and rollout script that deploys automatically across all five servers.
Result: developers ship and test on their own, and the tool is still in daily use.
Read the case study →Two full-time staff were copying updates between the support CRM and the developers' boards. Off-the-shelf sync tools couldn't handle the custom fields, so I wrote one.
Result: far fewer errors, and both people moved on to more valuable work.
Read the case study →Only developers with database access could see the numbers. I built Power BI dashboards with automatic refresh and scheduled reports for the wider team.
Result: non-technical staff use live data to make decisions, with less manual reporting.
Read the case study →Client data was re-keyed by hand between GoldVision (CRM) and PMC Analytics. We built a two-way, automated sync with field mapping between them.
Result: no more manual transfers and one accurate view of every client.
Read the case study →The WordPress site was run by an outside consultant with no staging or reliable backups. I moved it into the company's own AWS environment and upgraded it.
Result: a smooth migration, full ownership of code and data, and a safer, up-to-date site.
Read the case study →A product-feed importer ran without errors but stopped loading new data. Experienced developers were stuck; I spotted that the table's ID column had hit MySQL's INT limit and fixed it with a BIGINT key.
Result: imports back on track and client deadlines kept.
Read the case study →I've spent most of my career leading engineering teams while staying close to the code, owning the architecture, the delivery and the people.
Building and fixing production systems: web platforms, APIs, integrations between business tools, and the scripts that automate the dull work.
Designing cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud and AWS that is secure, affordable and easy to run, and moving existing systems onto it without downtime.
I've led onshore and offshore engineering teams, mentoring engineers, setting engineering standards, keeping delivery on track and making the case for technical work to the business.
Getting data out of silos and in front of the people who need it, through dashboards, scheduled reports and reliable syncs between systems.
From developer to technical lead and leadership roles, in digital agencies, e-commerce, fintech and the non-profit sector.
Moved to the UK for an MBA, then taught business, management and ICT on Edexcel BTEC courses at Levels 3, 5 and 7.
BSc in Computer Science & Engineering, then team leader in customer-service operations, running teams across three outsourcing projects.
Companies I've worked with
I grew up in Dubai, where I wrote my first lines of code, and moved to Hyderabad, India, as a teenager. There I studied computer science and learned to lead people in fast-moving customer-service operations.
In 2009 I came to the UK for an MBA, spent time teaching, and moved into software development in 2011. I've been building and leading ever since.
Living and working in three countries taught me to work well with very different people. Colleagues tend to describe me as the dependable one who keeps the team together, and the person you call when something important breaks.
What I'm looking for next is simple: hard problems, good people and work that matters, whether that means writing the code or leading the team that does.
Whether it's a role, a project or just a technical question, I'm happy to hear from you.