Java and full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise applications for banking and retail-technology environments in Germany and for German clients. Based in Australia, I work remotely with DACH/EU teams, delivering Java/Quarkus development and production support, including incident management, integration (SOAP/REST), CI/CD, and SQL/Python automation to improve operational workflows.

RABIA ATHAR

Java and full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise applications for banking and retail-technology environments in Germany and for German clients. Based in Australia, I work remotely with DACH/EU teams, delivering Java/Quarkus development and production support, including incident management, integration (SOAP/REST), CI/CD, and SQL/Python automation to improve operational workflows.

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Java and full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise applications for banking and retail-technology environments in Germany and for German clients.

Based in Australia, I work remotely with DACH/EU teams, delivering Java/Quarkus development and production support, including incident management, integration (SOAP/REST), CI/CD, and SQL/Python automation to improve operational workflows.

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Language

English
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Urdu
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German
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Work Experience

Freelance Java Developer & IT Consultant at mindbit GmbH (Client: Diebold Nixdorf)
July 1, 2023 - Present
Delivered remote Java/Quarkus development and application support for a DACH client via mindbit GmbH. Developed and maintained Java EAR and Quarkus-based web applications. Supported Oracle 11g web services including SOAP/REST proxies and created XQueries for data transformation. Deployed and troubleshot applications via Oracle Service Bus (OSB) and ran EAR deployments on Payara/GlassFish; also worked with WebLogic Server (WLS) for deployment/support. Provided ongoing production support with incident management and troubleshooting across the stack. Authored technical documentation and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Led a SharePoint API integration migration and supported broader application lifecycle management. Used SQL-based data analysis and Python (pandas) scripts to automate recurring manual business processes.
Master's Thesis — Machine Learning & Computer Vision at BMW Group
November 1, 2020 - May 31, 2021
Automated an image-annotation-based process to measure airbag unfolding velocity during vehicle crash tests. Implemented CNN-based object detection to identify airbag and window regions in video frames, comparing one-stage (SSD) and two-stage (Faster R-CNN) architectures with Inception/ResNet backbones. Reduced false positives via custom post-processing and used object tracking to address false negatives. Estimated per-frame unfolding velocity using reference-point coordinates and frame rate, validating results against manual measurements.
Software Developer at mindbit GmbH
January 1, 2020 - June 30, 2023
Extended interfaces and implemented a SOAP-to-REST proxy service for a Diebold Nixdorf product. Upgraded the Java version of a Java Enterprise application and assessed impacts across the codebase. Built and deployed applications on Payara; documented developer guides and extended a Java EJB application. Worked as a full-stack developer using Spring Boot/Quarkus (backend) and Angular (frontend). Analyzed and assessed change requests, and handled build/deployment via Jenkins and testing/deployment via the OSB console.
Working Student — Software Developer at Cargo-Bay
August 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Maintained and improved the cargo-bay.de web platform as part of the development team.
University Lecturer, Computer Science at BUITEMS (Balochistan University of IT, Engineering & Management Sciences)
August 1, 2016 - September 30, 2018
Taught Introduction to Computing, Programming Fundamentals, and Mobile Application Development to undergraduate students.

Education

MSc Computer Science at University of Paderborn
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021
BSc Computer Science at FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Retail, Professional Services