The people building recash

Education

Bachelor’s and master’s in international management, with exchange terms at Texas A&M in the US and Beijing Foreign Studies University in China, the two markets where resale and live selling scaled ahead of Europe.

Experience

The marketplace and platform operator on the team, having scaled a startup from pre-seed through to a public listing. Joined Cluno as its first sales hire and scaled it to around 140 people across Europe, launching the platform in multiple European markets; Cluno exited to Cazoo, which went on to a NYSE IPO. EU Customer Experience Director at Cazoo, then Global Customer Experience Director at roadsurfer.

Core skills

• Marketplace operations
• Seller & buyer relationships
• Pricing & commission structures
• B2B sales
• Customer experience
• Fundraising
• Circular economy / resale
• Agent-assisted operations

recash responsibilities

• Commercial strategy and go-to-market
• Seller acquisition and commission terms
• Buyer relationships and key accounts
• Marketplace operations: orders, invoicing and payouts
• Product priorities, set with the CTO
• Legal, tax and compliance
• Automates repeatable commercial and back-office work, with review
• Fundraising and investor relations

Education

BS Computer Science, NUST Islamabad.

Experience

Co-founder and CTO of recash since 2025.

Before recash

Built and led an engineering team from two to ten engineers at Bitsmiths Studio, peaking in early 2025. Early engineer at Flybasis, taking a flight booking company from a landing page to around $100k in monthly revenue before handover. Built the platform for UniBid, the US student-housing startup that landed a Fairfield University partnership.

Core skills

• System architecture
• Product strategy
• TypeScript / Next.js
• Postgres / Supabase
• Marketplace data modelling
• AI-first delivery
• Code review process design
• Technical hiring

recash responsibilities

• Built the technical foundation: system architecture, database design and the codebase the platform runs on
• Built the engineering team and the way it works
• Ships production features alongside the team, day to day
• Leads incident response when live issues hit the platform
• Writes the specifications the team builds against
• Code review and release approval on every change
• Engineering planning and prioritisation; runs the daily standup
• Designing the SaaS subscription architecture
• Designing the integration layer that makes recash a single point of control across eBay, Amazon, Shopify, JTL and Odoo
• Product and technical strategy, with the CEO

Education

BE Computer Software Engineering, NUST Islamabad, 2020–2024.

Experience

Two years at Shadiyana, from web development intern to full-stack developer. Bytewise engineering fellowship. Joined Bitsmiths in March 2025 and progressed to senior engineer. Full-time on recash since June 2026.

Core skills

• TypeScript / Next.js
• React / React Native
• Node.js
• Commerce & billing systems
• AI-first delivery
• Platform performance
• Observability
• Code review & QA
• Mentoring engineers

recash responsibilities

• Executes architecture and infrastructure work
• Plans and builds new features
• Builds agent skills for repeatable engineering work
• Core commerce systems: invoicing, commissions and payouts
• Samira AI, the assisted upload experience
• Platform performance and reliability

Education

BS Computer Science, FAST NUCES Islamabad, 2021–2025.

Experience

Co-founder of Bookmystay, a hotel booking product. Full-stack engineer at Galvan AI, and at Circuit Stream. Joined Bitsmiths in 2025 and has been on recash since.

Core skills

• Marketplace integrations
• Third-party API engineering
• AI-first delivery
• Database security / RLS
• Logistics integration
• TypeScript / Next.js
• Postgres / Drizzle
• AWS

recash responsibilities

• Daily operations and support, automated where repeatable
• Builds new features
• Marketplace channel integrations
• Operational tooling for the commercial team
• Logistics integration

Education

Handelsfachwirt, Akademie Handel Munich, 2024.

Experience

Founder and managing director of EK Trade, his own trading business, for close to two years. Sales at LODENFREY, the Munich premium retailer. Joined recash in 2026.

Core skills

• B2B sales
• Seller onboarding
• Buyer accounts
• Premium retail
• Catalogue quality
• Competitor benchmarking
• Agent-assisted workflows

recash responsibilities

• Front line for buyers and sellers
• Seller onboarding and buyer accounts
• Product approval and catalogue quality
• Creates and manages orders for buyers
• Feeds conversion and usability problems into the roadmap
• Automates repeatable seller and buyer workflows, with review

Education

BE Computer Software Engineering, NUST Islamabad, 2020–2024.

Experience

UI designer at Grew Studio and UI/UX designer at DexterSol. Bytewise fellowship. Joined Bitsmiths in 2024, where the role grew from interface design into product design.

Core skills

• UI / UX design
• Figma / Framer
• Design systems
• AI-assisted prototyping
• Product thinking
• Design QA
• Requirements & ticket prep
• HTML / CSS

recash responsibilities

• Research and requirements gathering on new features, AI-assisted
• Prototyping before development starts
• QA and end-user testing of shipped features
• Designs the marketplace interface and the buyer and seller flows
• Design quality gate before production