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9+ years shaping digital products

Building high‑performance web solutions that scale

Senior Full‑Stack Engineer (Vue, PHP, AWS) with a track record of 20-30% performance gains, leading technical coordination, and delivering user‑centric platforms used by millions.

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tech toolkit

Vue.jsJavaScript/ES6HTML5/CSS3 PHP 8.1+LaravelAWS Lambda Static AnalysisFeature TestingDocker MySQL/PostgreSQLREST APIsNode.js Scala/PlayWebRTCRedis NetsuiteTDDGit/GitHub Actions

professional experience

Technical Coordinator & Senior Software Engineer Oct 2024 – present
UN1Q · Birkirkara, Malta
PHP 8.1+LaravelMySQLPest PsalmPHPCSDockerGitHub Actions
  • Lead technical coordination across teams, enforcing coding standards & domain‑driven design (Laravel bounded contexts).
  • Built complex fitness algorithms with feature tests; used PHP 8.1+ enums, readonly properties, strict typing.
  • Enforced code quality via Psalm & PHPCS; designed polymorphic Eloquent relationships.
Senior Software Engineer Oct 2022 – Jul 2024
EPAM Systems · Spain (remote)
PHPJavaScriptCMSCaching
  • Increased website performance by 20% via new caching system.
  • Identified bugs in internal CMS, reducing production bugs by ~20%.
Scala Developer Jul 2021 – Oct 2022
Fullsend Solutions · USA (remote)
ScalaPlay FrameworkElasticSearchPHP HandlebarsTDD
  • Designed endpoints with Play/Anorm; integrated ElasticSearch → 30% faster search.
  • Built PHP import/export with PHPExcel; 95% user satisfaction.
  • Functional tests, integration, and responsive UIs.
Software Engineer Feb 2020 – Jul 2021
Contour Software (Constellation) · Lahore
PHP/LaravelZendMySQLRedis AWSNetsuiteZapierOAuth2
  • Engineered app serving 1M+ users/month; integrated Zillow, FB Marketing, Netsuite.
  • Refactored Zend 1.2→3.0, PHP 5.3→7.0 → 25% efficiency gain.
  • Redis session handling reduced DB load 18%; AWS saved $10k/yr.
Software Engineer Oct 2018 – Dec 2019
Bellstone PVT LTD · Lahore
WebRTCJavaVue.jsNode.js GCSMailgunBank Alfalah
  • P2P data transfer with 98% success rate (20% better than competitors).
  • Integrated Mailgun (50% less manual effort) & payment gateway → 15% sales increase.

featured projects

UN1Q fitness 2024–now
PHP 8.1LaravelPestDDD
Proprietary health assessment algorithms, domain‑driven design, strict typing. Backend for wellness platform.
Live
Resume Forge 2020–now
Vue 3BootstrapNetlify
Open‑source resume builder with live preview, JSON import/export.
Demo Code
Trango P2P 2019
WebRTCVueNodeGCS
LAN/Internet file transfer with hole‑punching, 20% faster than alternatives.
Android
Zurple / PropertyPulse 2020–21
PHPLaravelAWSNetsuite
Real estate client generation, Zillow integration, 40% query optimisation.
zurple.com
VennFnB 2022
PHPMySQLHandlebarsDocker
Restaurant ops system: inventory, supplier ordering, invoice matching.
Live
Givinga 2021–22
ScalaPlayElasticSearchPostgreSQL
Philanthropic tech: upgraded API endpoints with ElasticSearch, TDD.
givinga.com

education & research

M.Phil Computer Science
PUCIT, University of the Punjab
2015 – 2017
BS Computer Science
PUCIT, University of the Punjab
2011 – 2015
Automatic NoSQL to Relational Database Transformation with Dynamic Schema Mapping
Hindawi 2020 · view publication

Let’s build something impactful

Full‑stack leadership, clean code, and modern architecture.

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