Our Team
Our team brings together developers, designers, game creators, and digital growth specialists who share a passion for building meaningful digital products. We believe in collaboration, continuous learning, creative problem-solving, and delivering quality in everything we do.
Our Team Members
The People Who Build Our Products
Ansar Arshad
Founder & CEO
Started Nova in 2016 with two laptops and one rule: never ship anything you wouldn't put your own name on. Twelve years in software, still reviews every launch note personally.
Sets company vision, signs off major launches, and still takes the 9 a.m. scoping calls with new clients.
Faisal Khan
Chief Operating Officer
The reason 320+ projects shipped on time. Faisal runs delivery like an airline: checklists, margins for error, and no drama. Clients know him as the calmest person on any call.
Delivery operations, resourcing across squads, and client partnerships in the GCC.
Our Culture
Creative Thinking, Teamwork & Continuous Learning
We encourage creativity, teamwork, innovation, and professional growth. Our environment gives talented individuals the opportunity to explore new technologies, share ideas, and contribute to products used around the world.
Engineering
Bilal Ahmed
Chief Technology Officer
Islamabad
Former systems architect at a fintech scale-up. Bilal owns the technical bar at Nova — every architecture decision, code review standard and 'no, we're not shipping that yet' call.
Rebuilt his own home's wiring network with VLANs. His family found out when the Wi-Fi got 'suspiciously better'.
Design
Ayesha Siddiqui
Design Director
Islamabad
Ayesha leads the studio that turns research into interfaces people describe as 'obvious'. Ex-agency creative lead with 9 years across product, brand and motion design.
Can identify a typeface from a screenshot in under 10 seconds. Party trick, occupational hazard — same thing.
Engineering
Usman Tariq
Engineering Manager
Islamabad
Full-stack engineer turned manager who still ships code weekly. Usman runs the web platform squad and is the person clients ask for by name on the second project.
Contributed to an open-source library you've probably used. Won't say which one unless you buy him chai.
Growth
Mariam Aslam
Head of Growth Marketing
Remote — GCC
Mariam has managed over $8M in paid media across three markets and treats every dirham like her own. Her dashboards are famous with clients and feared by underperforming channels.
Once reduced a client's cost-per-lead by 61% by simply turning off the campaigns the old agency 'forgot' to check.
Product
Zara Sheikh
Senior Product Manager
Islamabad
Zara turns messy requirements into roadmaps that survive contact with reality. She's shipped products in fintech, health and logistics — and writes the clearest specs in the building.
Has a personal rule: no feature enters a sprint without a named user who asked for it.
Engineering
Ahmed Hassan
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Remote — Islamabad
The engineer other engineers go to when the bug 'makes no sense'. Ahmed works across our SaaS builds and has a habit of fixing root causes, not symptoms.
Solves Advent of Code every December in a language he doesn't know yet. Currently: Rust.
Design
Fatima Noor
UX Research Lead
Islamabad
Fatima has interviewed hundreds of users across Pakistan, the Gulf and the UK. She's the reason Nova's designs start with evidence — and the one who says 'the data disagrees' in reviews.
Keeps a wall of anonymous user quotes. 'I just want it to work' is framed above her desk.
Engineering
Daniyal Sheikh
Mobile Engineering Lead
Islamabad
Daniyal has shipped apps with a combined 2M+ downloads and a 4.8-star average. He treats crash-free sessions as a personal metric and store reviews as user research.
Downloads his own apps' competitors monthly and annotates their UX issues in a shared team doc.
Operations
Hina Tariq
People & Culture Lead
Islamabad
Hina joined when Nova was nine people and has hired every teammate since. She built the review cycles, the learning budget and the "no heroes, just systems" delivery culture.
Rejects about 90% of applicants — and sends personal feedback to every single one.
Join Our Team
Be Part of Something Innovative
We welcome individuals passionate about Android development, game development, UI/UX design, software engineering, and digital product growth. Build your skills, share your ideas, and contribute to digital products with a global reach.