Shaik Mohammad Abdullah

Experience

1. Umrain

   2025 – 2026

   Founder

   Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

   ~$40K first-year revenue · solo-built & bootstrapped

   • Founded a travel-tech startup enabling people to plan and book their Umrah independently and transparently — without relying on traditional agents — born from a poor personal agent-led Umrah experience in late 2024
   • Built a self-serve platform that generates fully customised, end-to-end Umrah itineraries (home-to-home) tailored to each traveller's preferences, budget, and schedule
   • Drove ~$40K in first-year revenue as a bootstrapped venture, owning product, technology, operations, vendor partnerships, and customer support end to end
   • Gained deep, end-to-end knowledge of the Umrah travel industry — supplier and ground logistics, pricing, compliance, and building customer trust in a high-stakes journey

2. Karya

   Sep 2024 – Present

   Senior Product Engineer

   Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

   100+ API routes secured · access provisioning cut from hours to seconds

   • Designed and delivered a zero-trust authorization system using Permit.io RBAC/ReBAC across 100+ API routes, enforcing fine-grained access for 5 user personas; built a self-serve role management UI that cut access provisioning from hours to seconds and eliminated all manual database privilege changes
   • Spearheaded enterprise client onboarding for Karya's PaaS platform; led end-to-end technical discovery, scoped integration architectures, and managed production deployments — bridging sales and engineering to accelerate client time-to-value
   • Designed and shipped a Natural Language Query (NLQ) conversational interface letting non-technical stakeholders query live PostgreSQL databases in plain English — persistent chat history, reusable query templates, and a responsive auto-resizable data table
   • Built 25+ modular, accessible task components for structured data-collection pipelines (voice, touch, selection), improving field accessibility for workers in low-bandwidth, low-literacy environments
   • Engineered upload and date-range filtering in the payments module and resolved critical report re-rendering defects, enabling faster, more accurate worker payout management
   • Integrated WhatsApp Business API for broadcast task distribution and automated assignment notifications, extending task delivery to large worker pools via a high-engagement channel
   • Resolved OTP authentication for test accounts and international phone formats (e.g., Ethiopian country codes), ensuring reliable verification and enabling multi-country expansion

3. ZopSmart

   Jan 2022 – Aug 2024

   Software Engineer

   Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

   3× click-through rate & 12% sales lift on Kroger's US e-commerce

   • Kroger (US Grocery e-Commerce): Core contributor to homepage and navigation architecture for the 2nd-largest US grocery e-commerce SaaS; redesigned category discovery flows, driving a 3× click-through lift and 12% increase in product sales. Stack: TypeScript, ReactJS, CSS, Jest, React Testing Library
   • EazyUpdates (Task Management SaaS): Engineered a leave management and payroll tracking module for HR teams, substantially reducing manual overhead; integrated GitHub and Google Calendar APIs for real-time employee progress. Owned 50% of the total product build. Stack: TypeScript, ReactJS, CSS, Jest
   • HealthCheck (Internal DevOps Tool): Architected a cross-service health monitoring dashboard surfacing real-time status, dependency health, and usage metrics; visualised inter-service relationships as a D3.js force-directed graph, reducing mean time to detect degradations. Stack: ReactJS, D3.js, Node.js

4. MountBlue Technologies

   Aug 2021 – Jan 2022

   Software Engineer

   Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

   • Completed an intensive full-stack engineering programme covering component architecture, frontend best practices, test-driven development (TDD), and production deployment pipelines
   • Shipped a production-grade e-property listing marketplace enabling landlords to list properties and tenants to browse and enquire — fully responsive, accessible UI with comprehensive unit and integration test coverage. Stack: ReactJS, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Jest, React Testing Library

5. Developer Student Clubs, REVA University

   Jun 2019 – Jun 2020

   Core Team Member

   Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

   • Organized and managed technical events, workshops, and hackathons for the campus developer community; held multiple leadership roles

Technical Skills

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