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Anees Butt

@aneesbutt

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Engineering leader driving scalable platforms and fintech product impact.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I seek leadership roles where I can scale engineering teams and platforms, improve observability and reliability, mentor engineers, and deliver high-impact fintech or ride-hailing products.

I am an engineering leader with hands-on experience building scalable backend and event-driven platforms for ride-hailing, fintech and retail across MENA and Pakistan.

At SadaPay I built an end-to-end invoicing platform that peaked at $1.5M+ monthly revenue, led org-wide engineering influence across 30+ engineers, and established L2 support, observability and incident response practices.

Previously at Careem I served as Staff Software Engineer driving backend optimizations, incentive features and observability improvements; at Creative Chaos and GfK-Etilize I contributed to large-scale data pipelines, search analytics on multi-terabyte catalogs, and hybrid tech-lead responsibilities.

I bring strong expertise in distributed systems, Kafka and Flink, Java/Kotlin and Spring ecosystems, DevOps and security alignment, and I emphasize mentorship, hiring and cross-functional collaboration to scale teams and systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of IT | Tribe Lead

Current

SadaPay

Jan 2022 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Built end-to-end invoicing platform that peaked at $1.5M+ monthly revenue, led org-wide engineering influence across 30+ engineers, and established IT audits, L2 support, and improved observability and incident response.

Java Kotlin Spring Kafka PostgreSQL ELK Observability Incident Response

Staff Software Engineer

Careem

Jan 2018 - Jan 2022 (4 years)

Led backend tech for Captain Engagement, optimized large-scale driver performance pipelines, developed new incentive types and improved observability and correctness of critical subsystems.

Java Kafka Flink Spring DynamoDB Kinesis ELK

Principal Software Engineer

Creative Chaos

Jan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year)

Developed backend for Podium Data and metadata streaming in Hadoop, and contributed to architectural evolution and performance optimizations.

Java Spring Hadoop HDFS Architecture

Staff Software Engineer

GfK Etilize

Jan 2012 - Jan 2017 (5 years)

Served as hybrid tech lead/manager for SpexAccess portal, implemented search analytics on ~3TB product data using Elasticsearch, and optimized indexing with roaring bitmaps and runtime content transformation.

Java Spring Elasticsearch RDS)Roaring Bitmaps

Integration Engineer

GfK Etilize

Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years)

Provided on-call technical support for product integrations, implemented REST/SOAP services and data import scripts, and participated in hiring and leadership activities.

Java BASH REST)SOAP Magento Shopify

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

2005 - 2009

Grade: CGPA 3.2

Activities and societies: Academic projects: Discrete PID based Inverted Pendulum; Optical Communication between 89C51 controllers; Analog PID DC Motor Position Control; RC Car Interface through ANSI C.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with projects including a discrete PID inverted pendulum and optical communication between microcontrollers.