Leadership | Ishtiaq Baig

Delivery

Leadership in practice

I coordinate engineers and stakeholders so products ship. This is not a pitch for program management roles.

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.

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).

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.

Situation: A TeleMedicine client was blocked on a legacy codebase stuck on outdated Android tooling.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.