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 – PresentSoftware 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 2024DevOps 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 2024Technology 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 2022Founder
- Generated PKR 0.24 million in sales revenue in Q2 2021, fulfilling 100+ orders of tech accessories.
Projects
Saef Qureshi
saefquraishi.orgCommerce 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
Customer Complaint Classifier
github.com/Kewlkaka/customer-complaint-NLP-text-classificationSorts 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
German Political Speech Classifier
github.com/Kewlkaka/german-political-speech-classifierFine-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