Faisalabad, Pakistan · Open to relocate

Backend engineer · full-stack product builder

I build the systems behind ambitious products.

Backend-focused full-stack engineer with 3+ years of experience delivering production SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, data, and applied AI systems.

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40M+
market price rows

Production PostgreSQL data and query layers

10K+
daily active users

Supported by the Youngs Capital platform

503
listed companies

20+ years of market and financial history

01 · Experience

Production ownership across commerce, fintech, AI, and search.

Backend-focused engineering with the full-stack range to take complex systems from architecture through daily operations.

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Full-time

Freshy

Full-Stack Engineer

Commerce, delivery operations, payments, and real-time workflows built across the product stack.

  • Built TypeScript, Express, PostgreSQL, and Prisma modules for warehouses, delivery pricing, serviceability, coupons, and scheduled delivery assignment.
  • Delivered real-time rider offers and route updates with Socket.IO, Firebase push campaigns, notification history, analytics, and XPay payment and wallet flows.
  • Built matching Next.js administration workflows with TanStack Query, React Hook Form, Zod, and documented APIs with OpenAPI and Postman.
TypeScriptExpressPostgreSQLPrismaSocket.IONext.jsTanStack QueryFirebaseXPay
02

Part-time

Youngs Capital

Tech Lead / Full-Stack Engineer

End-to-end technical ownership for a production Pakistan Stock Exchange analytics platform.

  • Lead architecture, delivery, reviews, and mentoring across backend, frontend, data, and production operations.
  • Built Django REST APIs, React analytics, PostgreSQL query layers, and Celery ingestion and metric pipelines.
  • Own AWS and Docker infrastructure, subscriptions and payments, role-based access, alerts, production operations, reviews, and developer mentoring.
PythonDjangoDRFReactPostgreSQLRedisCeleryAWSDockerPayFast
03

Project-based

Vengo AI

Full-Stack Engineer

Multi-tenant conversational search products delivered from ingestion and retrieval through administration and deployment.

  • Built CampusPixel and Vengo AI Search, embeddable RAG products grounded in customer websites and documents.
  • Developed Flask and Socket.IO services with LangGraph, Qdrant, Directus, Voyage, Groq, secure WebSocket authentication, citations, and agent branding.
  • Delivered React and Vite embed experiences, Ortempo's marketing workflows, and Docker-based cloud deployments and migrations.
PythonFlaskSocket.IOLangGraphReactQdrantGroqDocker
04

Full-time

Qbatch

Software Engineer

Search, ingestion, scraper orchestration, and production full-stack systems at marketplace scale.

  • Built a TypeScript and Node.js ingestion pipeline processing millions of Amazon, eBay, and Walmart products.
  • Moved high-volume discovery workflows from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch and built React and Vue search interfaces.
  • Designed a Flask and Redis scraper control plane using systemd, cron, and S3-backed outputs.
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonFlaskReactVuePostgreSQLElasticsearchRedisS3Docker
05

Part-time

Spinnr

Full-Stack AI Engineer

Personalized conversational systems backed by retrieval, tools, and long-context orchestration.

  • Built AI conversational agents that dynamically retrieved user and website data through RAG and embeddings.
  • Implemented function-calling pipelines and Flask services for tools, chatbot orchestration, and contextual responses.
PythonFlaskRAGLangChainOpenAIVector SearchEmbeddingsReact

02 · Selected work

Systems I've helped ship.

Commerce, fintech, search, and applied AI products built around real users, operational constraints, and production outcomes.

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03 · Expertise

The engineering stack behind the work.

Backend architecture, data and search, applied AI, product interfaces, and dependable cloud delivery.

01 / Grounded intelligence

Applied AI

Production LLM systems built around retrieval quality, controlled context, and useful product behavior.

RAGAI AgentsFunction CallingEmbeddingsLangGraphLangChainOpenAIGroqQdrantVoyage
02 / Product foundations

Backend & Full Stack

APIs, workflows, and user-facing systems owned from architecture through deployment.

PythonDjango / DRFFlaskTypeScriptNode.jsExpressREST APIsSocket.IORedisCelery
03 / High-volume systems

Data & Search

Reliable ingestion, transformation, retrieval, and analytical query layers.

PostgreSQLPrismaElasticsearchMongoDBQdrantSupabaseData PipelinesVector Search
04 / Production delivery

Cloud & Engineering

Infrastructure, observability, networking, and delivery across managed and self-hosted environments.

AWSEC2RDSS3ElastiCacheAzureDockerCI/CDLinuxCloudflare

04 · Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

FAST NUCES, Pakistan · Aug 2019 - Jun 2023

GPA 3.64 / 4.0
  • Graduated Cum Laude
  • Dean's List
  • Final Year Project nominated for the Prime Minister's Innovation Award