Zafar Hussain Luni
E-109 Phase 2 Defense View,
Karachi, Pakistan
Cellular +923337863825
zafarluni@gmail.com
A Software Engineer, with more than five years of industry experience in working for various
fortune 500 client organizations including China Mobile, Telenor, Globe Telecom and Fidelity
National Financial. I have strong focus on object oriented design, reusable code and use of
industry wide best practices. I have acted in lead technical roles, heading up design,
implementation, scheduling, code reviews, design reviews, on projects consisting of teams
distributed over multiple geo locations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Matrix Systems (Pvt.) Ltd
Assistant Manager/Sr. Software Engineer
April 2011 – Current
Matrix is an ISO 9001; 2000 certified and CMMI ML II compliant offshore software development center of
SoftPak Financial Systems, MA.
I am leading development teams on multiple modules of Matrix’s next generation enterprise risk
management system. It’s a SOA based application. System consists of multiple reusable/configurable
modules which are developed using web services, object relational mapping layer and long running
processes.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the followings:
 Meetings with Business Analysts, Domain Experts, Project Managers
 Producing and Documenting software artifacts including Software Requirement Specification and
Functional Specification
 Producing and Documenting Software Design Specifications
 Design XML communication contracts to be used between frontend and backend
 Mentoring team members (both onshore and offshore)
 Cross team, cross department communication
 Code reviews, Design reviews
Etilize – A Subsidiary of GfK Group
Software Engineer
March 2010 – March 2011
Etilize offers product data information, product content and product data services for Resellers, Solution
Providers, Comparison Shopping Engines, E-commerce websites, Value-Added-Resellers, Manufacturers
and Enterprise customers.
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DB-Merger Project – The goal was to merge data between two different companies working
inside Gfk group. I was involved in development of rule based transformation engine which
transformed data, in required format, based on rules defined in excel sheets by Content Experts.
This project helped merge data from different schema by transforming and importing it on the fly.
Image WAM - Designed and Implemented Automated Work Assignment Module for Image
Experts working at Etilize. This module helped in efficient assignment of work to Image Experts
and quality assurance professionals. Work items were broken in similar categories and assigned
to resources with expertise in particular category. This helped in maximum efficient utilization of
resources.
Maintenance and Updates – Was involved in maintenance and updates of various in house
projects.
PixSense Inc.
October 2008 –February 2010
Software Engineer
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, PixSense is a mobile P2P media sharing
platform
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Developed WAP Gallery Module - Module included all features of its Web counterpart like
Image Gallery, Friends, Public/Friend sharing of media etc
Async Billing Module – Developed Async Billing Module for PixSense Application designed for
Globe Telecom Philippine. This module replaced existing synchronous billing module.
Maintenance and Updates: Was Responsible for maintenance and updates for Telenor Norway’s
Online Album Project.
Software Engineer
March 2008 – September 2008
Panacloud Karachi Worked on development of an interactive educational platform
Software Engineer
February 2005 – March 2006
Panacloud Karachi –
Worked on development of an interactive educational platform
Instructor April 2008 – January 2011
Operation Badar Karachi More than 2 years of experience in conducting different professional courses and workshops: Java, C#,
Windows Presentation Foundation, LINQ etc.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Computer Science
Baluchistan University, Pakistan
2004
Master of Computer Science
Baluchistan University, Pakistan
2008
COMPUTER SKILLS
Languages Frameworks Database Servers Operating Systems -
Java TM, Servlets, JSP, Struts, Velocity, Guice, Web services
Hibernate, JPA, C#, .Net 3.5, Silverlight, Asp.net Mvc, XML (XSD)
MySQL, MS SQL Server
JBoss, Tomcat, Glassfish
Linux, Windows
Awards
Received “Community Recognition Award” from Microsoft
First position in provincial programming competition at IQRA University
First position in software competition arranged by provincial Ministry of Technology at Pearl Organization