Ishtiaq Baig

Leadership in Practice

I coordinate engineers and stakeholders so products ship. This is not a pitch for program management: technical decisions remain hands-on, ensuring architecture, code quality, and production stability are never compromised during delivery.

Technical ArchitectureDelivery Focus

Coordinating Stakeholders

Aligning product roadmap, backend requirements, and QA workflows to ensure a frictionless release cycle across multi-platform ecosystems.

Hands-on Decisions

Deep involvement in modularization, Jetpack Compose implementation, and KMM strategies. Architecture that scales with the business.

Zero-Ceremony Logic

Clear, direct communication with business owners. Prioritizing signal over noise to keep the development team focused on shipping code.

Principles

  • I coordinate engineers, stakeholders, and milestones so your product ships. I am not pitching PM roles.
  • Technical decisions stay hands-on: architecture, code quality, and production stability.
  • Clear communication with product and business owners, without ceremony for its own sake.

Impact at Scale

elGrocer Grocery
Acquisition Success

Scaling elGrocer

Led Android architecture with modularization, Jetpack Compose, offline-first flows, and KMM strategy while aligning product, backend, QA, and operations over multi-year ownership.

10×
REVENUE GROWTH
150K
MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS
2K+
DAILY ORDERS

Scaling a grocery platform

Situation
elGrocer needed to grow daily orders and reliability without breaking production across shopper, retailer, and driver apps.
Action
Led Android architecture with modularization, Jetpack Compose, offline-first flows, and KMM strategy while aligning product, backend, QA, and operations over multi-year ownership.
Result
10× revenue growth, 150K MAU, 2,000+ daily orders, and a platform that contributed to acquisition by e& (Etisalat Group).

Digitizing driver payments

Situation
Cash and card collections in the field created reconciliation risk and audit gaps for finance teams.
Action
Owned technical delivery for POS integration (Adyen/Utap), wallet-based COD, and real-time sync via sockets with secure transaction logging.
Result
100% digital tracking of driver transactions, fewer reconciliation errors, and audit-ready operations at scale.

Client delivery under pressure

Situation
A TeleMedicine client was blocked on a legacy codebase stuck on outdated Android tooling.
Action
Solo migration from Android 8 to Android 15 target, plus Eclipse project configuration support.
Result
5.0 client review: Great work ethic, checked-in every day, great knowledge of java and eclipse.

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