The people building recash

Education

Master’s in Automotive Management, Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU), 2016–2018. Bachelor’s in International Management, Worms, 2013–2016, with study abroad at Texas A&M.

Experience

Head of Sales and New Business, then Head of Customer Success, at Cluno. EU Customer Experience Director at Cazoo. Global Customer Experience Director at roadsurfer. Earlier, product management and pricing at Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong, and roles at Horváth & Partners, BASF, BorgWarner and Allianz.

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

Founder of Bitsmiths Studio, where he built and led the engineering team from two to ten engineers through early 2025, delivering platforms for funded startups. Early engineer on the founding team at Flybasis, taking a flight booking company from a landing page to around $100k in monthly revenue before handover. Built the platform for UniBid, a US student-housing startup that landed a Fairfield University partnership. Co-founded recash as CTO.

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

• Product and technical strategy
• System architecture
• Engineering planning and prioritisation
• Writes the specifications the team builds against
• Runs the daily standup
• Code review and release approval
• Platform quality ownership
• Security and data-access standards
• Infrastructure and vendor decisions
• Technical hiring and team structure
• Owns the AI-first delivery model and the team’s agent skills
• Technical lead on investor diligence

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