Hasan Irshad
Applied researcher and engineer with 8+ years shipping software-intensive systems—now focused on continuous compliance, runtime traceability, and industrial automation.
About
I hold MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from Iqra University and have spent more than eight years delivering architecture, continuous delivery, and security-aware release practices across mobile and backend products.
Through Smart Melt, a steel-plant automation product connected to Siemens SIMATIC S7 PLCs, I worked with multi-year operational data and saw how requirements, deployed software, and live process behaviour drift apart without continuous evidence. That practitioner problem drives my doctoral research agenda.
Research
I study how organisations continuously produce, structure, and reason about compliance evidence as systems evolve from development into long-lived operation.
Linking requirements, design decisions, and obligations to observed behaviour of software-intensive systems—including OT–IT and PLC-connected environments.
Treating CI/CD, tests, reviews, configuration, documentation, and releases as living sources of compliance evidence—not artefacts assembled only at audit time.
Structuring and retrieving evidence across heterogeneous engineering artefacts with models, graphs, semantic retrieval, and AI-assisted analysis where appropriate.
Making analytics and ML outputs in product or plant systems usable inside assurance arguments.
Experience
Present
Engineering Lead — Entertainer Asia
Leading engineering on a consumer offers product spanning mobile clients, backend services, and partner integrations. Owns technical direction, release steadiness, and cross-stream delivery for the Vouch365 platform.
Multi-year · Industrial
Software / systems contributor — steel-plant process automation
Connected product software to Siemens S7 PLCs; collected and used long-running plant operational data. Exposure to software-intensive industrial systems where process behaviour, control software, and product software must stay aligned beyond office DevOps settings.
Sep 2023 – Apr 2025
Mobile Architect — remote
Technical ownership across concurrent client streams. AWS AppSync / Cognito architectures, SSO-aware identity, CI/CD redesign with Bitrise / Fastlane (~30% faster white-label cycles), and security controls aligned with client data-compliance expectations.
May 2022 – Aug 2024
Senior Manager — Mobile Engineering
Led ~8 engineers across iOS, Android, and backend. End-to-end SDLC for consumer apps (50K+ users), VoIP / AR / WebSocket features under two-week Agile delivery, and quality gates that improved release predictability.
2018 – 2022
Senior iOS Developer · iOS Developer · Intern
Hysab Kytab (Jaffer Brothers), TPL Life, and LuteBox — secure financial apps, real-time data pipelines, App Store delivery, and stakeholder-facing engineering trade-offs.
Publication
The Asian Bulletin of Big Data Management, 4(1), 97–106
Lab colour-space method for shadow detection using luminance thresholding and chromaticity distance, producing a binary shadow mask. Follow-on Python reimplementation for reproducibility beyond the original MATLAB prototype.
Contact
Open to doctoral research conversations and engineering collaborations at the intersection of software methods and industrial practice.