About

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing scalable APIs, platform capabilities, and distributed systems in Node.js and TypeScript. Today, I drive backend architecture at Xenia, where I build real-time analytics pipelines using CDC and ClickHouse, ship enterprise SSO via WorkOS, and tune infrastructure — most recently cutting AWS RDS costs by ~50%.

Before Xenia, I built event-driven microservices at AIO with NestJS and Redis Pub/Sub, shipped Shariah-compliant payment infrastructure at KalPay Financials processing 5,000+ daily transactions, and grew from engineer to lead at Kcube AI. Across fintech and B2B SaaS, I've owned migrations to TypeScript and PostgreSQL, designed CDC-driven analytics, and shipped offline-first sync for deskless workers.

I care about software that's reliable under load, easy to operate, and cheap to run. I work end-to-end — from system design and data modeling through CI/CD, observability, and on-call. If you think I can be helpful to you, or you're interested in collaborating, get in touch.

Some History

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  • TODO: the moment you decided to be a software engineer.
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I Like

  • Reading systems-design papers and post-mortems.
  • Tinkering with self-hosted infra and home-lab setups.
  • Late-night refactors that delete more code than they add.
  • Coffee.
  • Open-source — using it and contributing back when I can.
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Travel / Geography

  • I live in Lahore, Pakistan, and work remotely with US-based teams.
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Fun Facts

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I Dream Of

  • Building software that quietly makes people's lives better.
  • Staying curious.
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Websites from People I Admire

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