Waqas is a Corporate Problem Solver and a voracious student of the latest computer science technology. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi. He specializes in rapid problem-solving, tackling complicated projects, and hustling to achieve a goal. He is a highly self-motivated, self-taught software engineer, he has a healthy dose of Spring (Java, Spring Boot/Cloud) and back-end engineering skills, cloud development skills in AWS, MS Azure, and Heroku, big data processing using Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams and Kafka Connector, and top-notch Vuejs and Angular front end engineering skills as well. Since 2016, Waqas has been solving business problems through custom software development using a variety of commercial and open-source platforms including Spring Boot/Cloud, Azure, AWS, Vue.js, and Angular in conjunction with many database platforms such as Azure SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and MySQL. He has been using JIRA, Bitbucket, CloudCommit, and Azure DevOps (former VSTS) for source control, project management, team management, and app deployment at Azure using CI/CD via Azure Pipelines. Since November 2016, Waqas has been focused on getting training on Java, Kafka related technologies including Spring Cloud, Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Angular, and Vuejs. With consistently excellent skills evaluations, Waqas delivers cutting-edge web applications on the most in-demand technologies using revolutionary Microsoft, Pivotal plus Netflix, and Google-built frameworks Spring Cloud, and Angular that seek to develop real applications from scratch. Other facts about him: "He doesn’t mind being underestimated, because he frequently proves doubters wrong." "He doesn't sleep. He never stops learning. He is not afraid of challenging work. He is always interested in what's next."