Arslan Liaqat
Software Developer
Software Developer with 7+ years of experience building and maintaining web applications, internal tools, and backend services. Strong background in Angular, AngularJS, Node.js, MongoDB and Docker, with hands-on work across attendee-facing products, internal management tools, APIs, integrations, and WordPress-based web properties. Comfortable across frontend, backend, data and testing — with a focus on maintainable systems, steady delivery and product quality.
Experience
Jan 2023 — Present
Web Developer — LineUpr
Dresden Area, Germany
- Contribute across LineUpr's wider product landscape — attendee apps, internal management tools, backend services, survey products, website components and supporting integrations.
- Develop and refine frontend functionality in Angular and AngularJS for both attendee- and organizer-facing product areas.
- Work across frontend and backend boundaries on features that require coordinated UI, API and data-layer changes.
- Maintain and extend Node.js services and APIs — application logic, validation, service behaviour and internal tooling.
- Support MongoDB-backed application logic: schema updates, migrations, aggregation pipelines and workflow-oriented data handling.
- Contribute to product areas including authentication, login & password flows, QR-based interactions, surveys, notifications, localization, subscriptions and payment-related functionality.
- Help evolve organizer-facing tools for configuration, operational workflows and internal administration.
- Improve reliability and maintainability through refactoring, automated testing and incremental modernization of existing code.
- Support development and delivery workflows through Docker-based environments, dependency maintenance, CI upkeep and general engineering maintenance.
Oct 2022 — Dec 2022
Web Developer — LineUpr
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
- Supported ongoing feature delivery and maintenance across the product stack following the thesis phase.
- Contributed to frontend and backend tasks while becoming familiar with internal product domains and workflows.
- Assisted with bug fixing, small enhancements and day-to-day improvements across web applications and supporting services.
Apr 2022 — Sep 2022
Master's Thesis Researcher — LineUpr
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
- Developed an event-based question-answering system for event-centric data as part of a master's thesis in Web Engineering.
- Researched closed-domain QA systems and designed a domain-specific approach using machine learning and NLP.
- Built a custom event-focused dataset and fine-tuned RoBERTa-base-squad2 for the target task.
- Evaluated the solution — achieved F1 = 0.71 and accuracy ≈ 96%.
- Documented findings, limitations and future directions — dataset expansion and interface-related improvements.
Jun 2019 — Mar 2022
Web Developer — LineUpr
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
- Developed and maintained web applications and internal tools used across the LineUpr ecosystem.
- Worked primarily on frontend development with AngularJS and Angular, while also supporting backend and data-related tasks.
- Contributed to product usability, performance and maintainability through ongoing feature work and iterative enhancements.
- Built and maintained the company blog's WordPress setup — custom theme, plugin and widget development with PHP, Less, Vue.js and Bootstrap.
- Used Docker-based environments to support local setup, restoration and consistent development workflows.
- Participated in testing, debugging and cross-functional collaboration to deliver stable web features.
Jan 2018 — Aug 2018
Web Developer — DXANT
Karachi, Pakistan
- Developed and maintained frontend functionality for websites with a focus on usability and visual consistency.
- Designed prototypes, interface assets and mockups to translate business requirements into workable web designs.
- Produced database ERDs and design documentation to support project planning and communication.
- Built dynamic PHP-based websites and data-driven features tailored to client requirements.
- Supported SEO improvements through keyword-focused content and structural optimization.
Education
Oct 2018 — Mar 2023
M.Sc. Web Engineering
Technische Universität Chemnitz · Germany
Thesis: event-based QA system (RoBERTa fine-tuning).
Apr 2023 — Present
Graduate Studies — Automotive Software Engineering
Technische Universität Chemnitz · Germany
In progress.
Oct 2013 — Sep 2017
B.Sc. Software Engineering
University of Gujrat · Pakistan
Certifications
Angular Material: Ultimate Masterclass with Angular 9 (2020)
Technical Skills
- Front-end
- Angular, AngularJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ionic Framework
- Back-end
- Node.js, Express.js, Fastify
- Data
- MongoDB (aggregations, migrations, indexing)
- Markup / Styling
- HTML, CSS, Less, Bootstrap
- Other web
- PHP, Vue.js, WordPress
- Testing
- Jest, automated testing practices
- Tooling
- Docker, Git, CI/CD basics
- Research
- Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers (thesis level)
Languages
EnglishFull Professional
GermanElementary · B1 in progress
UrduNative
PunjabiNative