Senior AI & Backend Engineer
About
I've spent 6+ years building software for companies in the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, most recently as a Principal Engineer at an education technology company.
Today I focus on AI that actually ships: RAG assistants over company documents, AI agents and automation pipelines, voice cloning and text-to-speech, and the backend work around them: APIs, payments, queues and deployment. I care about the unglamorous parts too: cost control, 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.
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.
Card payments for a 110+ store retail group
Python service connected to in-store card terminals
Connected the stores' point-of-sale system to Mada card terminals through a Geidea integration: purchases, refunds, cancellations and receipt reprints, with a log of every transaction.
RFID stock automation & retail dashboard
Same retail group
Python services that read and decode RFID tags (EPC) and match scanned stock against the system, plus a Django dashboard for sales, stock snapshots and transfers, running in Docker behind Nginx.
RAG assistants with voice
Google Gemini & Vertex AI
AI assistants that answer from a company's own documents using vector search, with voice in and out, and rate limiting to keep usage and cost under control.
Multi-agent pull request security reviewer
Automated code review
A pipeline of AI agents that automatically reviews pull requests for security issues.
Stripe payments for a multi-tenant wellness SaaS
Multi-tenant platform
Stripe payments and subscriptions integrated into a multi-tenant wellness platform.
Experience
Skills
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.