Reyan Tariq

Software Engineer, Standard Chartered · Karachi, Pakistan

reyan.24n67e@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/reyan-tariqgithub.com/Kewlkaka

Data-driven technology professional with a track record of automating financial operations, regulatory reporting and reconciliation at a global bank. Skilled in SQL, Python and process optimisation, turning complex operational challenges into measurable efficiency gains.

Experience

Standard Chartered Bank

Jul 2025 – Present

Software Engineer (previously International Graduate, Technology)

  • Digitised credit card and personal loan fulfilment operations (~500 applications/month) by migrating legacy processes onto a centralised platform.
  • Automated regulatory reconciliation of 45,000+ monthly financial transactions for Pakistan's federal tax authority, cutting a 3-hour weekly manual process to minutes.
  • Engineered a Python rule engine consolidating monthly datasets and validating withholding-tax applicability.
  • Reduced a daily operations workflow from 60–90 minutes to seconds; extended the approach to IFRS 9 Islamic Banking validation and technology-obsolescence reporting.
  • Delivered a self-service regulatory data portal that lets non-technical teams run compliance queries themselves, saving ~10 hours/week of manual data requests.

NayaPay (Digital Bank)

Nov 2024 – Dec 2024

DevOps Trainee

  • Deployed and maintained Java financial applications across SIT, UAT, Pre-Production and Production.
  • Monitored system performance with Checkmk, Grafana and Prometheus to keep financial transactions uninterrupted.

Standard Chartered Bank

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

Technology Intern

  • Designed AI-driven transcription and a Linear SVC text classifier, improving call routing by 50% across 100K+ calls/month.
  • Performed exploratory data analysis on incident reports with Pandas and Seaborn, reducing issue resolution time by 15%.
  • Managed SIT/UAT environment provisioning for the Payment-to-Merchant QR rollout, improving testing throughput by ~40%.

ZNR

Dec 2020 – Dec 2022

Founder

  • Generated PKR 0.24 million in sales revenue in Q2 2021, fulfilling 100+ orders of tech accessories.

Projects

Saef Qureshi

saefquraishi.org

Commerce for a mentoring practice: a shop for physical and digital products, courses, paid one-to-one consultations and Stripe checkout, running on a Medusa commerce backend.

Next.js · Medusa · PostgreSQL · Stripe

An events app that matches organisers with the right vendors. A Python recommendation engine does the matchmaking; vendors get a dashboard for bookings, revenue and ratings.

React Native (Expo) · Flask · Neon Postgres

Bridges the gap between students and employers: real work from real companies, rewarded through a token system students can show off.

React · .NET · Clerk OAuth · Neon Postgres

Sorts consumer financial complaints (CFPB data) into product categories: credit cards, mortgages, debt collection, student loans. Five models compared; a tuned SVM won.

Python · scikit-learn · TF-IDF

Fine-tuned German BERT on 2,429 parliamentary speeches to predict a speaker's political orientation. 89% accuracy overall.

PyTorch · Hugging Face · Gradio

PAK-AI: Cultural Heritage Visualization Platform

MERN-stack platform with AI image generation, enabling community sharing of cultural content.

Education

Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST)

B.Sc. Computer Science · 2021 – 2025

CGPA 3.7/4.0 · Dean's List (multiple semesters) · Merit-based scholarship

Awards & leadership

  • 1st place: Standard Chartered Graduate Development Event (GDE) (2026)
  • 1st place: Standard Chartered aXess Academy Bootcamp (100+ graduates across SCB markets)
  • 1st place: ZAB-E-FEST Inter-University Hackathon (Machine learning competition)
  • Assistant Director IT, SZABIST ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Certifications

  • Google Data Analytics: Foundations of Data, Data-Driven Decisions, Data Preparation
  • Stanford Machine Learning Specialization: Supervised Learning (Regression & Classification)

Skills

Data & analytics: SQL · Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) · Exploratory data analysis · Process automation

Business & operations: Process optimisation · Regulatory & compliance reporting · Financial reconciliation · Stakeholder management