DESIGN HEAD • CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST • AI SPECIALIST
Hamza Zeewaqar
Summary
Started in design. Couldn't stop at design. Six years later: leading creative operations at a UK sportswear brand, and building the automated pipelines that multiply output without scaling headcount. Currently pursuing an MS in AI. The throughline across all of it: making complex work feel simpler than it has any right to be.
Too much artist to think in systems.
Too much systematic to stay just an artist.
Work Experience
DESIGN HEAD
Feb 2024 – PresentGrip Active Limited
Feb 2024 – Present
- Leading design operations for a UK sportswear brand; teamwear and apparel for major clubs across the UK.
- Served as design team lead for Lahore Qalandars and Peshawar Zalmi in PSL X project — from design finalisation through production line.
- Rebuilt the design workflow from the ground up: ClickUp implementation, custom automations, and internal systems that cut storage by 98% and delivery time by 5x.
SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Oct 2023 – Feb 2024Grip Active Limited
Oct 2023 – Feb 2024
- Established design system consistency across brand, marketing, and product touchpoints; laying the foundation that led to promotion to Design Lead.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Mar 2022 – Aug 2023BuzzM — Remote
Mar 2022 – Aug 2023
- Delivered consistent brand visuals across multiple platforms and projects.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Mar 2021 – Oct 2022Cove Design Studio — Karachi / Remote
Mar 2021 – Oct 2022
- Full-time brand and social media design. Produced visual identity assets, marketing collateral, and social graphics across a range of client.
Skills & Tools
Design Work
- Creative Direction & Team Leadership
- Brand Identities & Design Systems
- Sports Apparel & Textile Design
- Campaign & Social Media Design
- UI Design & Web Interfaces
- Print & Marketing Collateral
- AI-Assisted Visual Production
Systems & Automation
- Team Workflow Optimization
- Custom Internal Tool Development
- Agentic Workflow Design
- API Integration & Custom Tooling
- Process Automation
- E-commerce Operations & Setup
- Database Architecture
AI & Research
- LLM Integration & Prompt Engineering
- Local Model Deployment & Inference
- Deep Learning Model Development (CNN, LSTM)
- ML Experiment Tracking & Evaluation
- Data Pipeline Design & Feature Engineering
- Satellite & Atmospheric Data Analysis
- Academic Research & Statistical Analysis
Design Work
Systems & Automation
AI & Research
Design Work
Systems & Automation
AI & Research
Languages
Education
MS — Artificial Intelligence
The Superior University, Lahore
Oct 2025 – Oct 2027
BS Environmental Sciences
University of Okara
Oct 2019 – Aug 2023
Certificates & Courses
Agile Team Leadership
Duke University
Apr 2026
Brand Management: Aligning Business, Brand & Behaviour
University of London
Feb 2026
Graphic Design Specialization
California Institute of the Arts
2026
Backyard Meteorology: The Science of Weather
HarvardX
Sep 2020
Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking
Cybrary
2017