Backend engineer · 3+ years

I build the part
you

Scalable APIs, services, and data layersin Node.js and NestJS. Lately I'm taking systems all the way from my laptop to production, and writing about the unglamorous middle.

Experience3+ years
StackNode · NestJS · Postgres
CurrentlyLearning ops in public
StatusOpen to roles

About

I build the parts of products users never see — and always rely on. I care about clean service boundaries, well-modeled data, and APIs other teams can build on without surprises.

Lately I've been taking projects the whole way: containerizing services, wiring up CI/CD, and self-hosting off the platform to learn what it was quietly doing for me. [Edit this with your own story.]

NOW

Learning ops in public — taking a NestJS API from laptop to a self-hosted box with Nginx, HTTPS and CI/CD by hand.

Work

Stack

Languages

TypeScriptexpert
Node.jsexpert
JavaScriptexpert
SQLintermed.

Frameworks

NestJSexpert
Express.jsexpert
Next.jsintermed.
React.jsintermed.

Data & Infra

PostgreSQLexpert
Redisintermed.
ElasticSearchintermed.
Dockerintermed.
AWSintermed.

APIs & Auth

RESTexpert
JWT / OAuthexpert
GraphQLintermed.
WebSocketsintermed.
BullMQintermed.

Experience

Jan 2025 — Jan 2026

Software Engineer

OCloud Solutions

Built Impactly, a B2B ESG data intelligence platform serving financial institutions across the Nordics and Baltics. Independently designed a dynamic carbon emissions calculator for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, integrated ElasticSearch for fast retrieval across large company and ESG datasets, and built a JSON-driven form engine so new data workflows shipped without frontend changes.

Aug 2023 — Jan 2025

Software Engineer

Kwanso

Designed a device session management system limiting concurrent logins via refresh-token tracking — first in PostgreSQL, then migrated to Redis for performance. Built an internal Employee Management System backend in NestJS, merged three sites into a single Strapi CMS, and wrote a Strapi plugin issuing CloudFront signed URLs for private S3 assets.

Apr 2022 — Aug 2022

.NET Developer Intern

VU Solutions

Built MVC-architecture APIs for enterprise applications using .NET Web API and Microsoft SQL Server, and sharpened relational database fundamentals through hands-on SQL query optimisation.

Credentials

education
2023

Bachelor of Computer Science

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
certifications
AI-900

Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft · 2025
DP-100

Azure Data Scientist Associate

Microsoft · 2025

Systems

A reference architecture I reach for — stateless services behind a gateway, async work off the hot path, and a database treated as a first-class design surface.

Client
API Gateway
Auth svc
Core svc
Worker
PostgreSQL
Redis
Queue
01

Clear contracts

Versioned, well-typed APIs so consumers never guess. The schema is the source of truth.

02

Async by default

Keep slow work off the request path with queues and workers; fail and retry gracefully.

03

Observable systems

Logs, metrics and traces from day one — you can't fix what you can't see.

04

Data-first design

Model the data carefully, lean on Postgres, and index for the queries that matter.

Let's talk

Open to backend and platform roles. Drop a note here, or reach me directly.