Kashif Anwaar

Kashif Anwaar

Android | iOS | Flutter | IOT | React | Next.js | Node.js | Startups

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About Me

  • Passionate about Tech and Software from an early age, started coding as a hobby at the age of 15 by developing several hobby projects.

  • Have developed several video games, websites, desktop apps, Android native apps, cross-platform Fluter apps, PHP MySQL-based back-end, IOT projects, Full-stack web apps.

  • Have over 8+ years of full-time experience as Software Developer, have developed large scale apps individually long before AI.

  • Have been founding engineer at two startups, worked very hard like 12-14 hours everyday for several months in the beginning.

  • As a Lead Developer at 4 companies, i was fully responsible for leading the development, release and maintenance of apps at four companies
    1. Fizz - Groupon-like platform
    2. Fashmates - Fashion social network
    3. Zelish later Tinychef - Meal-planning, Grocery delivery, Recipe discovery app.
    4. Magal: Local Companion - Discover local services - also book appointments and includes bidding system. Discover and order from nearby grocery stores, leftovers and clearance sales. Create and manage loyalty programs for local stoers. Alert neighbours, Manage allowances, and more.

  • Have won ‘Best Everyday Essential App of 2020’ from Google Play

  • Five of my apps have crossed 100,000+ downloads.

  • Have been single-handedly building complete apps for startups long before AI.

Projects

Dec 2024 - Present
iOS, Android & Web App

Magal: Local Companinon

Discover 160+ local services & book appointments. Pre-order groceries to save time, Use our Self-checkout to skip queues. Bulk-order from local manufacturers. Keep your family in loop with our Shared lists, manage all your loyalty cards digitally, send or receive local neighbourhood alerts, and list your local business — all in one app.

Dec 2024 - Present
iOS, Android & Web App

Magal Admin App

With Magal Admin app, Store owners can: View business activity of their store in dashboard, Register store, Edit store details, Manage categories, Upload products CSV, Manage products, View and manage orders, Manage loyalty cards, Issue leftovers, clearance sales and more. Contractors can: Register their service, setup appointment booking system, receive live biddings and submit quote, view and manage bookings. Super admin can: view and manage stores and contractors.

2026 - Present
Full Stack Developer

Viral Suite

Viral Suite seamlessly connects the entire workflow of the social media journey from content creation to social media management to social media marketing, including paid ads and influencer marketing. We are the first in the world attempting to unify them and make them seamless.

2026 - Present
Full Stack Developer

MyLinkz.me

One Smart Link to showcase everything, A smart link in bio service that syncs with your content and includes powerful features. Custom Trusted Link, Add all Your Socials, Showcase Portfolio, Custom Themes, and more, built on most cost efficient tech stack with rigorous planning.

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Next.js Project

Kloud Notes

Quickly take notes from any device and save it to the cloud without login and share with a short url, and then access in another device with the url and collobarate, you can name your url for remembering easily.

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2024 - Present
Full Stack Developer

Work Stack 360

WorkStack 360 is an Employee OS for SMBs that brings structure and clarity to the way your team operates. It has features such as Attendance, Time Tracking, Task & Project Management, and more features are planned.

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2025
Flutter Project

Easy Space

A freelance project for co-working space management, later modified for tenant management system.

Jun 2021 - June 2023
Senior Mobile Developer

TinyChef (acquired Zelish)

My previous company Zelish got acquired by Tinychef, I was asked to join the acquisition and worked till the very end of this company as well, here were my duties ● Initially gave KT to new team members of the acquired company, I was the go-to-guy for everyone needing any info related to the project

  • Mainly worked on building the Android native app with new features, and also worked on the Flutter iOS app and web services as well
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Senior Mobile Engineer

B.Tech (Egyptian E-commerce Major)

In Egypt, B.TECH is the country's largest consumer electronics and home appliances retailer. I briefly worked at Born Commerce (part of Tech Mahindra) on this project, and left because i was asked to join the acquisition of my previous company. After couple of years, it has crossed 5 million downloads.

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Hobby Project
IoT

Internet Controlled Car

An IoT hobby project demonstrating an internet-controlled car. Built with microcontrollers to navigate and control a remote vehicle from anywhere via the web.

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Hobby Project
IoT

Internet Controlled Bulb

An IoT hobby project demonstrating how to control a light bulb over the internet. Built using microcontrollers and a relay module to remotely switch the appliance on and off from anywhere.

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Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
Founding Engineer

Zelish

I started the core product of this startup as first full-time employee. More than 90% of the app was developed single-handedly by me, later joined by a junior developer.

  • More than 90% of the app was developed single-handedly by me
  • Helped build iOS app using Flutter
  • and extensively contributed to how API was developed from the beginning,
  • and briefly worked on the back-end as well.
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Android Developer

Fashmates

Fashmates is a unique, fun, and rewarding community of fashion lovers who discover, inspire, buy & sell stylish clothing and fashion accessories from each other. Basically, it’s a social network for fashion.

  • Lead developer and maintainer, wholly responsible for the Fashmates Android app.
  • Fixed the crashes throughout the app, crash-rate changed from 92% to 100% on Crashlytics.
  • Worked on memory management and fixed memory leaks, and also worked on performance improvement.
  • Used OpenCV image processing to automatically crop images.
  • Worked on photo editor, adding text layers, undo redo, save and edit features, and creating tags automatically on clothing items.
  • Created ‘dynamic feeds’ feature like Facebook home page.
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Android Developer

FIZZ

FIZZ is a product-based startup used to discover and purchase discounts across three south Indian cities. I was solely responsible to maintain, improve and add new features to the Fizz android app.

  • Created notification inbox, re-integrated payment gateway to new server.
  • Integrated firebase analytics & made conversion tracking from source of installs.
  • Set limit on max coupons a user can buy and fixed lots of bugs.
2018
Android and PHP Back-end Developer

iCaller

In 2018 I single-handedly made this project from scratch both front-end (Android native app) and back-end using PHP, MySQL. In this platform user’s can signup and create their profile with interests they can find new friends matching their interests and directly video-call them within app.

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Jun 2017
Android Developer

Dugar Homes

This app is made for Dugar – construction company for their partners, to track the availability and sales of apartments.

Nov 2016
Android Developer

JK Super Market & Klonrr shopping cart

It's an app based shopping product of the company which is sold to super markets. Its functionalities include user registration, searching products, listing products based on category, viewing promotional and offer products, adding products to cart and checkout.

Mar 2016
Android Developer

ClubApp

It’s one of the products of company, made for clubs to connect members closer. It has features like events with RSVP, Notifications, Chat, Albums, Member details etc. We used to customize and sell it to various clients. Those unique home screen's were conceptualised and built by me during beginning of my career before any design tools like Figma became popular.

Mar 2016
Android Developer

Bluetooth Based Attendance System

I built this app for registering attendance on events using Bluetooth. It has a server app for android which receives Bluetooth signals from nearby devices, and the client app is ClubApp.

Jan 2016
Android Developer

Rakhiwala CRM

This app is made for famous electronic showroom called Rakhiwala Electronics, to record, view, search & tracks enquiries, customers and much more.

Nov 2015
Android Developer

People of Change

Made for NGO called ‘Naalaya India’, to connect members with NGO’s information. Members can login, view live feeds, get list of upcoming events with details, view albums, and search other charity NGOs.

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Aug 2016
Android Developer

Travllr

It’s an app which acts as a digital interactive itinerary for tourists.

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2018
Open Source Author

Android Folder Picker Library

An open source android library to let user's pick folder / files from storage released in 2018, hosted on jcenter: compile 'lib.kashif:folderpicker:2.4', downloaded thousands of times, even github repo has 80 stars and 29 forks.

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Aug 2017
Android Developer

Islam Q&A

One of the friend asked to develop this project, it has lot of data handling, one of the mentioon-able things i did was building custom file parser, navigation, and search feature.

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Sep 2015
Android Developer

Daily One Quran Verse

It was my second public app launched on PlayStore developed while I was studying college. It had unique popup design at that time. It has over 200k downloads and over 5000 ratings.

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Nov 2014
Android Developer

Share Apps

It was my first app launched on PlayStore when I was studying college. At that time it was a useful utility, It had the fastest loading and a couple of other unique features, Its functionality was to sends apps as APK or link, also backup and manage apps. It also has over 100k downloads and over 900 ratings.

Work Experience

Dec 2024 - Present
Magal Tech Inc, Ontario, Canada (Remote)

Founding Engineer

Magal Tech Inc is a Canadian technology company building Magal, a local community app designed to make everyday life easier, faster, and more connected.
I was the founding engineer, who single-handedly built the mobile apps for iOS and Android using Flutter, and Web Apps using Next.js from scratch to a mega project consisting of enormous features over nearly 1.5 years.
Sep 2023 - Present

Founder

  • Began work on the ad venture somewhere around February / March 2023, Registered company in September 2023.
  • It was started mainly after getting the opportunity on Billboards and the emerging Influencer Marketing.
  • Dec 2024 - Began building WorkStack360 (previously called Prosights) - it's Productivity Suite for small businesses which has features such as attendance, time tracking, hrms, project management to sophisticated modules such as Endpoint security, DLP and more.
  • Nov 2025 - Began building Social Nest AI.
  • Jan 2026 - Combined Social Nest and old internal tools and several ideas into one unified platform called Viral Suite
June 2021 - June 2023
TinyChef (by IOK Labs, New York)

Senior Mobile Developer

  • My previous company Zelish got acquired by Tinychef, I was asked to join the acquisition and worked till the very end of this company as well, here were my duties
    • Gave KT to new team members of the acquired company, I was the go-to-guy for everyone needing any info related to the project
    • Mainly worked on building an Android native app with new features, and also worked briefly on the Flutter iOS app and backend.
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Born Commerce (part of Tech Mahindra)

Lead Mobile Engineer

  • Briefly worked on this company, and left because i was asked to join the acquisition of my previous company
December 2019 - March 2021
Zelish (BSH Techstars, Germany)

Senior Mobile Developer

  • I was the first developer who was part of the core team, started working from the very beginning of the company and project and worked until the shutdown and then acquisition. Zelish was a smart kitchen assistant startup, accelerated by BSH Techstars 2020 batch in Germany.
  • Brainstorm ideas with founders, come up with features and break down features into technical tasks.
  • Collaborate with other developers, the design team and the backend team to develop the product from scratch.
  • Follow agile methodology, plan tasks for the sprint, execute the sprint and deliver features continuously.
  • Won ‘Best Everyday Essential App of 2020’ from Google Play
MARCH 2018 - NOVEMBER 2019
Fashmtes Inc, Fremont, California (under Casperon Technologies)

Software Developer

  • I was assigned as lead developer for a dedicated project called Fashmates which is directly managed by the client, Fashmates is a unique, fun, and rewarding community of fashion lovers who discover, inspire, buy & sell stylish clothing and fashion accessories from each other. Basically, it’s a social network for fashion.
  • Lead developer and maintainer, wholly responsible for the Fashmates android app.
  • Discuss with the project owner and Scrum master. Analyze, understand and translate business requirements into technical output.
  • Fixed the crashes throughout the app, crash-rate changed from 92% to 100% on Crashlytics.
  • Worked on memory management and fixed memory leaks, and also worked on performance improvement.
  • Used OpenCV image processing to automatically crop images.
  • Worked on photo editor, some of the features I worked from scratch include adding text layers, undo redo, save and edit features, creating and showing tags automatically on clothing items in images.
  • Created dynamic feeds feature like Facebook home page.
JULY 2017 - MARCH 2018
Fizz E-Ventures Pvt Ltd

Android Developer

  • FIZZ is a product-based startup, The FIZZ app is used to discover and purchase discounts across three south Indian cities. FIZZ unexpectedly paused its operations due to lack of funding, that's why I left in a short span of time.
  • Worked along with founders and staff of all departments to brainstorm and bring new features to the app.
  • Solely responsible to maintain, improve and add new features to the Fizz android app.
  • Made sure the app is stable by continuously finding and fixing issues and crashes.
AUGUST 2015 - JUNE 2017
Infinit-e Technologies (aka CodeHouse Solutions LLP)

Mobile Apps Developer

  • It's a software services cum product company founded by ex-employees of Google & Patni computers. I developed 7 apps while working there, 3 of them in a team, 4 of them I solo from start to end. Please check the projects section to view those apps.

Education

  • B.Sc., (Bachelor's in Computer Science)
    The New College
    2012 - 2015
  • M.C.A (Master's in Computer Application)
    Measi Institute of IT
    2016 - 2018

SKILLS

Mobile App Development
  • Android
  • Flutter
  • Kotlin
  • Dart
  • Core Java
Web App Development
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Fastify
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Web Services
  • Typescript
Databases & Cloud
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • VPS
  • OCI
Embedded & IoT
  • C
  • C++
  • Embedded-C
  • IOT
  • ESP8266, ESP32
Design & Prototyping
  • UI
  • UX
  • Photoshop
  • Wireframe
  • Product Design
Tools & Methodologies
  • Git
  • Jira
  • Scrum
  • Project Planning
Management & Strategy
  • Team Management
  • Project Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • IT Strategy
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Digital Marketing
  • Creative Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Data Analysis
  • Market Analysis
  • Market Research
  • Branding
  • PR
  • Presentation

Personal Qualities

  • Leadership
  • Righteousness
  • Honesty
  • Desire to learn
  • Problem-solving
  • Collobaration

Hobbies

  • Coding hobby projects
  • Playing video games
  • Puzzle games
  • PUBG
  • Reading books & web articles
  • Discovering new things
  • Thinking new ideas

Languages

  • English
  • Tamil
  • Urdu
  • Arabic
  • Hindi