Senior AI & Backend Engineer
About
I've spent 7+ years building backend systems, full-stack products and production AI for companies in the US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Pakistan. Right now I'm the engineering lead for AI learning content at a US edtech company, working on RAG assistants, AI agents, child-data compliance (COPPA, FERPA, GDPR) and Google Cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes.
Before that I built a voice cloning and text-to-speech SaaS end to end, and integrated RFID and card payments for a retail group with 110+ stores. I care about the unglamorous parts too: cost control, security, fallbacks when an API fails, and code your team can maintain after I leave.
Things I've built
AI products and open-source tools I designed and built end to end. Click any project for the full story.
An MCP server that gives Claude, Cursor and other AI assistants a cited, searchable memory of a codebase: hybrid code search, git history behind every function, impact analysis before a change, and out-of-date docs detection. Runs locally, free.
A multi-tenant wellness platform for clinics, patients and individuals on web, Android and iOS: wellness programmes, tasks and challenges, emotion check-ins, nutrition tools, meetings and progress dashboards. I led 3 developers on the shared backend.
Built for real businesses
Production systems I've built for clients and employers. Client names are kept private, but the work, the stack and the problems are real.
AI learning platform for young learners
Engineering lead for AI learning content
RAG assistants, AI video pipelines and an AI content studio for educators on Gemini and Vertex AI, with COPPA, FERPA and GDPR controls and data-erasure audits, running on GKE with ArgoCD and Terraform.
Multi-agent pull request security reviewer
Multi-tenant platform
A pipeline of AI agents that reviews pull requests and catches security and tenant-isolation issues before they reach production.
RFID rollout for 110+ stores and 20+ brands
ICG point-of-sale integration
Integrated RFID with the group's ICG point-of-sale systems for sales, tracking and inventory across multiple cities, improving item scanning speed by 30%.
Card payments and refunds for the same retail group
Geidea Mada gateway
The backend that connects point-of-sale systems, card terminals and the Geidea Mada gateway for sales and refunds, with error recovery for failed transactions.
Multi-tenant wellness SaaS for US clinics
Web, Android and iOS
Led 3 developers building the shared backend APIs for clinic dashboards, patient management and personalised wellness programmes, and set up CI/CD on AWS that cut deployment time by 50%.
Experience
Skills
AI & LLMs
Backend & APIs
Frontend
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
Product & Integrations
Education
Have a project in mind?
Tell me what you're building and I'll reply with how I'd approach it. I work remotely from Pakistan (UTC+5) with clients in the US, UK and the Middle East.