I build backend and AI systems that seamlessly connect the tools companies already run.

Logistics and inventory platform. Clients keep their ERP and storefront; PackageX connects them and runs the warehouse floor.

1. Forward Deployed Engineer (Backend & AI)

   Apr 2026 – Present

   • Map client operations into PackageX Workflows (modular, block-based flows) and ship them for $250K+ ARR accounts.
   • Built the integration layer and 20 production workflows for a multi-location fresh pet-food brand: NetSuite, Shopify, Onfleet and Ordergroove behind proxy workflows that own auth, caching and idempotency.
   • Designed and shipped AI-assisted inbound receiving for a residential care provider: a label photo is read by vision inference and routed to a PO, a person or an exceptions queue, backed by Entra ID, EMR and Business Central syncs.
   • Built a remote orchestrator for Claude Code agents: parallel sessions in isolated git worktrees, a live terminal in the browser, steerable from a phone.

2. Senior Node.js Developer

   Jan 2024 – Apr 2026

   • Built core SaaS APIs in Node.js and Prisma on MySQL: fulfillments, manifests, parcels, items, audits and cycle counts, documents, imports and batches.
   • Owned the asset management module end to end: lifecycle, assignment, maintenance and warranty states, imports, and lock-contention fixes on the write path.
   • Engineered lease-based Redis coordination, after the leases in Facebook's Memcache paper, for safe idempotent writes under high-concurrency MySQL workloads.
   • Built cloud printing APIs and the PDF template engine; made label-sheet generation about 3.5× faster by deduplicating and prefetching image fetches.
   • Connected NetSuite and legacy client systems (sales orders, partial fulfillments, tax, purchase orders) and maintained CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

Digital freight platform; the first Pakistani startup to raise a $10M seed round.

1. Lead Backend Engineer

   Feb 2022 – Jan 2024

   • Led a team of two engineers building the backend for 9 web and mobile apps on Node.js, Apollo GraphQL and Neo4j.
   • Migrated more than 95% of legacy, unstructured Firebase data into a unified Neo4j/GraphQL schema with minimal loss.
   • Ran AWS infrastructure and CI/CD: CloudFormation stacks, push-to-deploy pipelines from GitHub, EC2, S3, Lambda and SQS. Cut deployment overhead by 50%.

1. Software Engineer

   Aug 2021 – Jan 2022

   • Built backend APIs and managed third-party integrations.

Research with Dr. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Dr. Zartash Uzmi.

1. Research Assistant

   Mar 2019 – Aug 2021

   • Worked on Advention, a system that picks low-latency Tor circuits and serves relevant ads to Tor users.
   • Prototyped LasTor- and NavigaTor-style path selection for latency before settling on power-of-d-choices circuit selection.
   • Built measurement tooling to study how GDPR affected page load times.