Professional Experience
Co-Founder & CTO @ DevNinja / OpsNinja, The Hague, Netherlands (Remote)
Nov 2024—Feb 2026
- Co-founded a dual-brand software consultancy and engineering staffing firm, serving PropTech, FinTech, and AI startups across Europe and the US.
- Pioneered an agentic AI-driven development methodology that dramatically compressed delivery timelines, cutting both engineering and deployment costs for clients.
- Delivered end-to-end product builds for a stealth-mode AI platform competing in the private equity intelligence space, from architecture through production launch.
- Scaled distributed engineering teams and embedded senior talent at high-growth startups to accelerate their go-to-market.
Staff Engineer @ HeartbeatMed Berlin, Germany
Feb 2024—Aug 2024
- Implemented end-to-end and integration testing strategies, improving overall product quality and reducing bug discovery time.
- Implemented preview environment seeding process, reducing setup time from multiple developer hours to minutes.
- Developed automations for routine tasks i.e. score calculations, resending emails to eligible users etc., increasing team productivity.
- Architected and implemented spotlight search functionality, improving user experience and search accuracy.
Open Source Contributor
2019—Present
- Active contributor to LuLu (12k+ stars), the leading open-source macOS firewall by Objective-See.
- Built devpod-provider-oracle-cloud, a DevPod provider enabling one-command cloud development environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Contributor to CloudStream (8.9k+ stars), an open-source Android media streaming platform.
- Forked and extended serverless-dns (RethinkDNS), a privacy-first DNS resolver deployable to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and Fly.io.
- Developing tauri-etcher, a Tauri-based reimagining of Balena Etcher for flashing OS images to SD cards and USB drives.
Senior Full Stack Developer & Technical Team Lead @ BuildingMinds GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2019—Jan 2024
- Architected and led development of a no-code-low-code highly scalable “Generic Connector” platform.
- Designed and implemented a CDM-compliant data normalization and transformation pipeline.
- Spearheaded an inner-source initiative, fostering collaboration and code reuse across teams.
Software Engineer @ Caya GmbH., Berlin, Germany (Remote)
2017-2018
- Caya makes your postal mail digital. I was responsible for creating and maintaining necessary visual and compute components responsible for digitizing the physical mail and making it available to users.
Technical Lead @ M-Hospitality, Athens, Greece (Remote)
2019-2019
- Lead a team of designers and developers to create companion applications for top-rated hotels
- The most challenging aspect of the project was to “generate” a different app for every hotel from the same unified code base.
- This was made possible by feeding different layout and other configurations at build time.
Full-Stack Developer @ AIRE Services LLC., California, USA Remote
2016-2017, 2019
- As a core full-stack developer, I was involved in building an application that assists users in finding apt agents in selling real estate.
- I developed a data-ingestion system that pulls data from dozens of MLS Services from across the USA and standardizes it.
- I also helped create a cross-platform mobile application that consumes this data.
Independent Contractor @ Upwork
2015-2019
- 100% job success rate throughout my career.
- 91% of clients have expressed a willingness to recommend my services to others.
- 100% of clients have indicated their desire to collaborate with me again.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python
Backend
NodeJS, NestJS, Express, Django, Deno/BunJS
Frontend
Angular, React, RxJS, NGXS, Redux, Remix
Databases
MongoDB, Postgres, Cloudant/CouchDB, SQL + Lite
ORM/ODM
TypeORM, Sequelize, Prisma, Mongoose
Testing
Jest, Codecept, Playwright/Puppeteer
Cloud & DevOps
Cloud Native APIs from AWS, GCP, Azure, Vercel, Netlify, Docker + Compose, Kubernetes (K8s)
API Technologies
GraphQL, gRPC/RPC, RESTful APIs
Search
ElasticSearch, TypeSense
Education
SEECS - NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
BE Software Engineering 2011-2015