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Work, career and what I stand for

Twelve years of shipping software, from a very small village in Punjab, Pakistan to Product Owner in Vienna. Everything professional lives on this one page.

Current role
Product Owner, MAVOCO AG
Experience
12+ years shipping software
Industries
Telecom & IoT, aviation safety, e-commerce, financial services, manufacturing
Based in
Vienna, Austria

I grew up in a very small village in Punjab, Pakistan, and studied Electrical Engineering at The University of Faisalabad. My career started in production and sales, where I learned early that people do their best work when someone takes them seriously.

In 2014 I moved to Vienna for an MSc in Intelligent Transport Systems at FH Technikum Wien, and never really left. Since then I’ve delivered software for e-commerce, financial services and aviation safety. Today I’m a Product Owner at MAVOCO, working on a Connectivity Management Platform for telecom and IoT.

Outside work I’m a father of two, a reader and a chess player. That side of me lives in Life off the Clock.

Portrait of Khurram Iftikhar, smiling, on a yellow background

What I stand for

Three things I try to get right, every single day.

Agile values lead the way, AI is the enabler, and empathy sits at the core.

Lead with Empathy

People do their best work when they feel seen. I learned that long before I learned Scrum.

  • Early in my career, I found salary discrepancies that had gone unnoticed for years and fixed the system so every worker got what they were owed.
  • Compiled lists of companies in Austria that hire English speakers, for everyone job hunting here while their German catches up.
  • I offer CV reviews and referrals to people who are job hunting, because drowning doesn’t always look like drowning.

Build with AI

AI doesn’t replace judgement. It gives curious people superpowers, and I intend to be one of them.

  • Coordinated delivery of an AI-powered safety management system for airline operators, one of the first of its kind in aviation safety.
  • Certified in AI Fluency (Anthropic Academy) and PMI’s Seven AI Project Patterns, and trained on bias in AI systems with AI Factory Austria.
  • Went from googling “how to download VS Code” to a working mobile app in 24 hours with Claude Code. 21 commits, real bugs, no senior dev.

Ship with Precision

Good intentions don’t ship. Clear priorities, honest status and steady delivery do.

  • Led three parallel software initiatives in a regulated, audit-heavy environment, including a major release with zero disruption to live operations.
  • Presented delivery status, risks and priorities directly to the Development Board every quarter.
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I) and Professional Scrum Master (PSM I).

Selected work

Projects I’ve led and built

From AI-powered aviation safety software to telecom and IoT, plus a few things I’ve built myself with Claude Code.

    Certifications

      Skills

      Agile & product
      Scrum, Kanban, hybrid delivery, backlog management, prioritisation, release planning, sprint facilitation
      Delivery
      End-to-end delivery, scope and timeline planning, resource management, budget oversight, dependency management
      Stakeholders
      Business and IT alignment, expectation management, executive reporting, board-level presentations
      AI
      LLM workflows, prompt engineering, AI-assisted delivery, Claude, Microsoft Copilot
      Quality
      Acceptance criteria, UAT coordination, release validation, audit-ready documentation, regulated delivery
      Risk & change
      Risk identification, impact analysis, mitigation planning, change management
      Tools
      Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Trello, YouTrack, Figma, Miro, Domain-Driven Design

      Education

      • MSc Intelligent Transport Systems FH Technikum Wien, Vienna · 2014 to 2018
      • BEE Electrical (Electronics) The University of Faisalabad · 2005 to 2009

      Languages

      • English Professional working proficiency
      • German B1
      • Urdu, Punjabi Native
      • Hindi Full professional proficiency
      • Arabic Elementary

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      Talks

      Sharing what I’ve learned, out loud

      Talks and conversations about change, delivery and the people who make both happen.

      Stuck somewhere I’ve been? Let’s talk.

      Moving into product work, starting with AI, or job hunting in Austria. I’ll help where I can.

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