I build full stack products and run the infrastructure they ship on.

Lead infrastructure, delivery, and security across the company's product portfolio via CloudPanel, mentoring a team of three engineers.

• Built a distributed intercity ticketing platform where each station runs a standalone box with its own API, PostgreSQL, and Nginx, draining an outbox to HQ when connectivity drops. Per-seat terminal ownership with TTL holds, 22 permissioned actions across 6 roles, fully audited.
• Delivered a national candidate-testing platform: registration, fee collection, biometric attendance, result processing, and appeals, with an encrypted question bank under role-scoped access.

Owned infrastructure, release pipeline, and security posture for an AI inbox-intelligence platform. Contract work, run alongside BitBlazeTec.

• Secured Google OAuth verification for restricted Gmail scopes and authored an 11-document OWASP ASVS v4.0 evidence package for the CASA assessment. Independent assessment by TAC Security returned an ESOF AppSec score of 9.7.
• Led SOC 2 Type I readiness across a 48-item evidence programme: 35 compliance policies authored, 35/35 compliant, cloud configuration driven to 34/34 findings passing, zero failures. Caught 4 audit-blocking issues before the formal scan.

AI Engineer on Panaversity's learning platform, an education initiative under PIAIC serving 1,000+ learners. Worked across the assessment system, the agent layer, and the student-facing frontend over 17 months.

• Built the exam system students use to take tests (question delivery, attempt handling, scoring), scaled to 7,000+ learners sitting exams concurrently, where a failed submission isn't a retryable error, it's a student's result.
• Handled the state a live exam needs: in-progress, dropped, or resubmitted attempts timed server-side rather than in the browser, refreshing without losing state or double-counting a submission.

Full stack and backend engineer building client products, with technical lead responsibility on one of them. Contract work overlapping Panaversity.

• Led StageMySpace.com end to end (backend, image pipeline, admin portal, frontend), an AI virtual-staging product for real estate. Agents upload a photo of an empty room; the system infers room type and generates a furnished version from the agent's prompt. Built PDF report export and an event-driven Celery/Redis job queue so multi-model image generation never blocked the request cycle.
• Built an AI outbound calling assistant for Merit Investment Bank on Vapi with Deepgram voice, HubSpot CRM sync for automatic call logging, Microsoft Graph calendar integration, and a 320KB knowledge base covering 50+ objection handlers and 100+ FAQs. FastAPI backend, containerized on Fly.io.

First professional role, at NSTP (Pakistan's National Science and Technology Park) while still in school.

• Built a scholarship-matching platform end to end: students submit a profile and CV, the system parses unstructured CVs via the OpenAI API and returns which scholarships they qualify for and how to apply. Early 2024, when most teams were still deciding whether to use LLMs at all.
• Built both frontend and backend, then deployed and ran it on AWS EC2: first time owning a service in production rather than handing it off.