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● Career Trajectory & Track Record
Professional Experience & Engineering Leadership
A comprehensive chronology of architectural milestones, enterprise client projects, team mentorship, and mission-critical production systems over 8+ years.
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Complete work history, stack proficiencies, and delivery results for enterprise engagements. Available on request.
8+
Years Exp
Systems & Full Stack
4
Featured Engagements
US & UK Enterprise
100k+
Txns / Month
Production SaaS Scale
85%+
Auto Test Coverage
RSpec Enforced
Structural Timeline
Architectural & Engineering Milestones
Current Status: Active Principal Engagement
Company & Tenure
Strategic Systems International (SSI)
Principal Software Engineer
2021 – Present
Lahore, PK (Remote US/UK Operations)
Executive Scope
Leading architectural decisions, cross-team technical reviews, backend scaling, and AI tooling pipelines for US and UK enterprise client engagements across fintech, crypto analytics, retail analytics, and real-time products.
Production Deliverables & Engagements
FINTECH SAAS $8M+ / month
Tenant Inc
Led backend microservices development with Node.js and Express.js for a fintech SaaS platform, including secure APIs, billing workflows, auditing, and background processing. Supported 100,000+ monthly transactions and automated $8M+ in monthly payment volume.
Outcome: 500,000+ daily user actions tracked, 99.9% on-time execution
CRYPTO DATA ANALYTICS 25% less tech debt
The Tie
Modernized a mature Ruby on Rails application, expanded automated testing, integrated Auth0, and connected the OpenAI API through reusable prompt workflows, cutting backend technical debt by 25% and manual effort by 40%.
Outcome: AI-assisted debugging delivered 35% faster data retrieval
REAL-TIME PRODUCT Real-time
Bridge by The Tie
Building a real-time chat system and platform features end to end with Nuxt 4 and TypeScript, including server API routes running on the Node.js runtime.
Outcome: production environment set up from scratch across Supabase, Auth0 and Vercel
RETAIL ANALYTICS 50% faster APIs
Digital Shelf by EDGE / Flywheel
Delivered Rails backend improvements for a retail and e-commerce analytics platform used by global brands, including Looker integration, SSO, testing, and automated releases, improving API response times by 50%.
Outcome: SSO for 5,000+ enterprise users, 99.9% deployment uptime
Company & Tenure
Codility Solutions
Software Engineer
2018 – 2021
Lahore, PK
Foundational Contributions
Architected and scaled production full-stack applications with Ruby on Rails, supporting reliable delivery across the team.
Implemented role-based authentication and authorization to keep multi-role access secure and maintainable.
Optimized database schemas and queries to keep core application pages fast as data volumes grew.
Delivered real-time functionality with Action Cable and supported reliable production deployments.
Systems Governance & Team Elevation
Engineering Leadership & Mentorship
Code is only half the equation. Sustained velocity requires rigorous architectural consensus, robust automated guardrails, and continuous uplift of engineering peers.
Architecture & Code Review
Set engineering standards and reviewed code across teams, championing clear domain boundaries, explicit schema evolution, and failure-aware design before writing code.
• Standards & review culture
CI/CD & Test Automation
Built automated testing, release pipelines and deployment discipline with Docker and Codefresh so releases stay routine and rollbacks stay rare.
• 85%+ RSpec coverage maintained
AI Tooling & Team Coaching
Brought Cursor, Claude Code and LLM-assisted review into daily workflows while coaching engineers toward independent ownership of their systems.
• AI-assisted delivery, human-owned design
● Technical Consultation & Leadership
Have a complex system that needs scaling?
Whether refactoring legacy monoliths, architecting real-time pipelines, or establishing foundational engineering standards, let’s discuss execution.