TECHNICAL LEAD / BACKEND · REAL-TIME · AI

I lead engineering teams building reliable backend, real-time, and AI systems.

11+ years turning complex requirements into production platforms—owning architecture, guiding engineers, and delivering systems businesses depend on.

Islamabad, PakistanWorking across distributed teams

From telemetry to decisionsIllustrative
02 / Event processing

I design event-driven pipelines for high-volume telemetry ingestion and real-time processing, with correctness and availability under peak load in focus.

trucks represented in fleet telemetry
5,000+
Operanex · Senior Engineer · 2019–2021
lower API response times at peak load
30%
Operanex · Senior Engineer · 2019–2021
shorter deployment time
50%
Operanex · Lead Engineer · 2022–present

01Selected work

Engineering, with outcomes.

Three perspectives on my work: real-time platforms, engineering delivery, and production AI.

Backend & real-time data

Making fleet data useful in real time.

Backend services, telemetry processing, and event detection for fleet operations at scale.

30% lower API response times
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Platform & technical leadership

A stronger foundation for delivery.

Leading the transition from a monolithic platform to Kubernetes-based services.

50% shorter deployment time
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RAG & agentic AI

Bringing AI into production systems.

RAG and agentic workflows, with evaluation and observability built into the integration.

Production AI integration
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Project index

Selected products across fleet, healthcare, and identity

Kimax Digital

Real-time weight tracking, geofencing, cycle monitoring, and telemetry analytics across trucks, excavators, and field devices.

Mining & fleet

Turing Insights

Vehicle movement, payload, location, operational events, and alerts for logistics visibility and theft detection.

Fleet analytics

Aquila EHR

Patient records, scheduling, telehealth, charting, billing/RCM, lab integrations, eligibility, and interoperability for US and Canadian providers.

Healthcare

Menar

Centralized identity and access for mining and logistics, with role-based authorization, auditability, and controlled access to systems and facilities.

Access & identity

Leza

Multi-tenant authentication and authorization with SSO, MFA, OAuth, secure login, and shared identity across business applications.

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02How I lead

Technical direction. Hands-on delivery.

I work where backend architecture, product needs, and engineering teams meet.

My role spans the conversation with a client, the shape of a system, and the code that reaches production. I lead distributed teams while staying involved in the engineering decisions behind reliability, performance, and cost.

Own the path from requirements to production.

Work directly with clients and product teams, turn business needs into technical roadmaps, and stay accountable for delivery.

Stay close to the systems.

Guide architecture while building backend services, improving data quality, and optimizing performance and infrastructure costs.

Help the team make better decisions.

Support distributed engineers through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring, connecting technical work to product goals.

03Experience

Built over a decade of delivery.

From backend services and product development to platform ownership and technical leadership.

Jan 2022 – Present

Brussels, Belgium

Lead Software Engineer

Operanex

Own backend and product delivery, system architecture, technical direction, and engineering execution for real-time IoT and analytics platforms.

  • Lead event-driven telemetry pipelines and production RAG and agentic AI integration.
  • Led the transition to Kubernetes-based services, reducing deployment time by 50%.
  • Partner with clients, product, and DevOps; guide distributed teams through architecture and code reviews.

Jul 2019 – Dec 2021

Brussels, Belgium

Senior Software Engineer

Operanex

Built fleet management capabilities serving 1,000+ active users and processing telemetry from 5,000+ trucks.

  • Reduced API response times by 30% during peak workloads through service and database-query optimization.
  • Developed event-detection and anti-theft workflows, improved large-dataset handling, and mentored junior engineers.

Jun 2018 – Apr 2019

Islamabad, Pakistan

Full Stack Engineer

Graana.com

Built listing, search, integration, and user-facing workflows for a marketplace supporting 50,000+ active listings. Reduced page load time by 40%.

Nov 2017 – Apr 2018

Letterkenny, Ireland

Node.js Developer

CloudRanger

Designed secure REST APIs and cloud automation workflows, reducing manual operational effort by 40% and improving service-to-service communication.

Sep 2015 – Aug 2017

Islamabad, Pakistan

Software Design Engineer

uExel

Built and maintained backend services and RESTful APIs supporting web applications, frontend integrations, and more than 5,000 daily API requests.

Education / 2011 – 2015

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila

04Expertise

The tools behind the work.

A backend and data foundation, extended into platform engineering, AI, and product delivery.

Languages & backend

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Express.js
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • tRPC

Real-time & data

  • Kafka
  • MQTT
  • RabbitMQ
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • Cassandra
  • Athena DB

AI & LLM systems

  • RAG
  • Agentic AI
  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • LangSmith
  • Multi-agent workflows
  • Retrieval pipelines

Cloud & platform

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Pulumi
  • CI/CD
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Product interfaces

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Svelte

Leadership & delivery

  • Team leadership
  • System ownership
  • Client engagement
  • Product thinking
  • Performance & cost optimization

05Start a conversation

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