Shan Muhammad Khan
--LinkedIn: https://pk.linkedin.com/in/shaanmkhan
A software engineer, an entrepreneur and software consultant!
A social entrepreneur and professional striving for a better world
Relevant Employment History
Jan 2012 – Present: CEO, uExel PVT LTD, Islamabad Pakistan
www.uexel.com
uExel is a software development and design agency in Islamabad, registered , providing ICT consultancy services and technology solutions to local and international organizations
1. Designed and implemented an object-oriented Content Management System for Non Profit Organizations with intensive research of two years and it’s been now used by over 10 organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
2. Designed and impended web based monitoring solution which monitors the organization which have complained the “The Sexual Harassment Act 2010”. Now it has over 1000 organization using this tool to update their harassment cases and committee members.
3. “uBank” Designed and development account and financial solution for small cooperative societies and microfinance banks, which now been used by over 8 microfinance banks in Gilgit Baltistan in less than two years.
4. HRMS SAAS product for a startup in UAE
5. “Bootstrap 360” Online market place to sell our own templates and UX work.
6. Designed and Developed Lab Management system for PrecipioDX , New York Based cancer diagnostic lab with sub offices all over the world. Now this solution has its own IOS apps to automate the reporting and communication flow.
7. Training & facilitating new fresh graduates according to industry requirements and needs
August 2015 –PRESENT: Founder uConnect, Gilgit Pakistan
(www.uconnect.pk)
uConnect is a unique environment where technology geeks can learn and do fast. We nurture network of like-minded and focused tech skills, providing place where they can work, meet, collaborate, network, learn and have fun. By getting the right people together in a physical space, good things happen.
Training and mentoring over 300 graduates, uConnect class of innovators.
Software skill development courses.
Freelancing & outsourcing
March 2016 –PRESENT: Founder Passenger.pk, Pakistan
(www.passenger.pk)
Passenger.pk is uber for long distance journeys. It’s currently under alpha testing.
Raised 6 Million seed funding through AKDN’s Accelerate Prosperity Platform
March 2016 –PRESENT: CTO and Co-Founder Consuldents, USA/Pakistan
(www.consuldents.com)
Founded in March of 2016 and based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA, Consuldents Inc. aims to create a marketplace community for leading students and organizations to list, discover and execute short term consultancy assignments in wide array of fields such as engineering, business, public policy, arts and architecture, language etc.
To be launched in December 2016
Volunteer Experience
August 2016 –PRESENT: Head, Swedish institute alumni network Pakistan
(www.fb.com/sialumnipakistan)
SI alumni network Pakistan is forum for Swedish institute alumni in Pakistan to connect and collaborate, and mentor young aspiring professionals and students.
With support of Swedish institute Sweden and Swedish embassy Islamabad arranged first ever reunion for SI alumni in Pakistan.
Founding head of the alumni network
November 2015 –Present: President, Ghizer social & Cultural Forum (GSCF), Ghizer/Islamabad
GSCF is regional forum of professionals and student at universities from disst Ghizer, Gilgit Baltistan aiming to provide counselling and mentoring to aspiring students, professionals. At the same time promoting indigenous artist to rest of the country.
Free soft skill development workshops
Mega Cultural event at LOK Virsa Islamabad.
Free Medical Camps in winter 2014 to fight widespread flue virus when the region lost 14 kids.
Endowment fund/ Scholarships for deserving students who cannot afford college and university expenses.
September 2011 – Present: Member and contributor, Progressive Youth Forum
Progressive Youth Forum is a nation-wide platform for progressive political activists
Encouraging political participation of youth and sharpening political understandings;
Sessions on promoting democracy and political participation;
Social mobilization for collective actions pertaining to democracy and human rights;
Formulation of Strategies with youth on promoting peace;
Formulation of Strategies with youth on Local Government in context of the 18th Constitutional Amendment
Training and Facilitation Experience
Trainer Aga Khan Economic planning board (5th Jan, 2016 - Present)
Training students and young professionals to develop their soft skills and how they can earn online with their existing skills, I am conducting these training across Punjab and Khyber Pakhtun Khowa.
Tech For Peace & Unity (5th FEB, 2016)
Facilitated Orientation Session on use of ICT and social media for social good at Seeds for Peace Pakistan’s annual Peace Camp where over 60 teens are invited on a one week residential camp.
Role of technology and social media engaging youth in Elections (16th March, 2014)
Facilitated Orientation Session use of ICT in elections
Other Employment Experience
-Final Year Project”Online Solution to Store BIG DATA”, GIKI,PK
Online Drive was an online Data storage solution, where users had to upload, store, access and shares their data. Clients Blob Data (collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system) had been stored in an online client’s drive. Clients had to upload, download, and share secure data with other clients from his/her Online drive. Personal data had been encrypted using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption standard adopted by the U.S government for security purposes.
Developing and implementing multi-relational data mining algorithm for pattern discovery. This will also support temporal querying, improved statistical aggregation and data visualization.
-Software Engineer Intern, ZTBL, Islamabad, Pakistan
Led several inter-team and cross-team brainstorming sessions and evaluated various approaches to managed card provisioning.
Created requirement and specification document, design, architecture and dependency models for provisioning managed card and led the team for the implementation and verification.
-Team Leader, Syntecx Solutions., Islamabad, Pakistan
Designed and developed software for the new user interface standard for uTrack value added service used by the millions of uFone largest telecommunication service provider. Demonstrated a 20 % increase in data throughput without impacting data integrity.
Designed and developed point of interest web based solution using google API.
Jun 2015-July 2015 DataMade Chicago USA
Worked on YourNextMP https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative
Customization of https://github.com/opengovfoundation/madison
LEADERSHIP, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
2016 Peace Thought Leader Award : Peace Tech Lab, Washington DC USA
Peace Tech Exchange 2016 Award for enabling & promoting technologies for Peacebuilding.
2016 Aga Khan Rural Support Program, Pakistan
My story of uExel is featured in a documentary to inspire the Dreamers of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral.Mera Khawab (My Dream) an initiative to promote entrepreneurship in the region.
2015UNAOC Summer School Fellow 2015, New York USA
One of the 75 young leaders selected from 75 country who are contributing to social and economic good of their countries
One week of networking and learning experience at UNAOC-EF compass
2015u.s state department professional fellowship, Washington dc/Chicago usa
I was selected for work at uElect society
4 weeks intensive learning and practical experience with local start DataMade Chicago.
2014Young achiever award, hashoo foundation,
In recognition of work at uExel PVT LTD
2013/2014Swedish institute, STOCKHOLM Sweden
I was selected for two module training and learning program “Young Connectors of Future”, its for emerging young leaders of South Asia.
open source projects (Giving back)
2012Open Source CMS –
First Open Source CMS specific to the needs of Non-Profit Organizations now being used in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Conducting free trainings for NGOs for data security and social media
Education & Qualifications
2006 – 2010 , computer science (Software engineering) class of 2010
Gik Institute of science & technology (hashoo foundation, Scholar from Pakistan)
Software Engineering
Operational Management
Project Management
2013 – 2014: swedish institute , stockholm, sweden (diploma)
young connectors of future (for emerging young leaders of south asia)
Team development
Business ideation to completion
Network building
2013 – 2014: mehergarh , Islamabad, Pakistan (diploma)
human rights and peace (for young leaders of pakistan)
Basic human rights
How government works
Arts and cultural for sustainable peace
Technical Skills & languages
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux variants, IRIX, Solaris, Unix, and DOS
Languages: PHP, C#, Java, Python,C, C++, VC++, Perl, HTML5, JavaScript ,AngularJS, XML, UML, JSON etc.
Frameworks: Yii,Django, Laravel, Code Igniter, Bootstrap.
Database and Client/Server Technologies: MySQL, LAMP,WAMP
Software Tools: Netbeans, Git,CVS, Subversion etc.
Cloud: AWS management, Google cloud
Others: Six Sigma project experience
LanguagesKhowar, Shina, Burushaski, Urdu, Punjabi & English
Keywords
Product Development, Product Architecture,UX, Artificial Inteligence,Data mining,Coud Solutions, SAAS, Web mining, Text Retrieval, Web Search, Distributed Database, Transaction management, Cryptography, Data Security, Security Protocols, Bioinformatics, Embedded software design, real time systems.
