M Hassan Ahmed
Software Development Engineer | Backend, Distributed Systems, AWS & Production AI
Karachi, Sindh,KP
Summary
Software Engineer (Node, Python & AI) building production backend systems and owning 6–12 services end to end across 13+ live REST APIs, microservices, and cloud deployments on AWS and Azure. Owns system design, Docker/CI-CD deployment, testing, and production support end to end, with recent work in agentic AI: tool-calling, RAG pipelines, and document ingestion / structured extraction backed by secure API integration. Turns ambiguous requirements into reliable software using Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
Overview
3
3
Certifications
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer (Python & AI)
Blue Ocean Strategic Partners
04.2026 - Current
- Led complete lifecycle of confserv as lead engineer, overseeing architecture, service design, testing, and production deployment of platform integrating Python REST API backend and PostgreSQL database with React/Vite frontend on Kubernetes in Azure.
- Architected document ingestion and extraction pipeline to optimize data-entry efficiency for hotel operators, processing unstructured documents through Anthropics Claude API into structured records with PydanticAI, stored in downstream CRM via platform's API layer, ensuring production readiness without individual record oversight.
- Architected core business APIs for platform's rules-oriented data mapping into CRM, implementing validation strategies to prevent silent record corruption from bad extractions, enhancing traceability and safety in iterative system design
- Implemented background data synchronization jobs against Azure SQL to ensure consistency of integrated systems, leveraging asynchronous processing techniques utilized in earlier microservices work.
Software Consultant
10Pearls
09.2025 - 04.2026
- Facilitated backend automation services and third-party API integrations within Microsoft ecosystem for HMRC and UK government clients, enhancing production casework processing systems through collaborative efforts with distributed team.
- Executed technical delivery process from implementation to testing and troubleshooting, maintaining clear documentation to streamline workflows and enhance stakeholder understanding, while identifying automation opportunities through analysis of real usage patterns.
- Analyzed client requirements to deliver tailored software solutions, enhancing user satisfaction.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of applications and services.
- Developed and implemented project plans, ensuring timely delivery of software projects within scope.
Software Engineer
Binate
07.2024 - 08.2025
- Directed operational efficiency of 15 production Node.js/NestJS microservices on AWS ECS, enhancing ride-sharing real-time chat, VoIP, and event management platform functionalities.
- Devised separation of ride-matching chat delivery and event-notification workflows using SQS/SNS to mitigate risks of cascading failures. Leveraged Elasticsearch for effective search across ride history chats and event listings while delivering frontend assets via CloudFront to enhance performance and reliability.
- Mitigated throughput and latency problems on high-traffic endpoints by deploying redis caching and restructuring database indexes using production load measurements
- Reorganized time-sensitive and asynchronous task management by employing BullMQ workers outside of request/response cycle, delivering predictable latency for user-facing endpoints and establishing a secure retry framework for background jobs during failures.
- Enhanced API security by enforcing JWT and OAuth for authentication and authorization across services, utilizing AWS Secrets Manager for centralized management of sensitive credentials and building a robust transactional email delivery system with AWS SES to ensure message reliability.
- Executed changes through git-centered CI/CD featuring blue-green deployments on AWS with Docker
Software Engineer
WeUno Technologies
01.2024 - 06.2024
- built superpowere.ai, a real-time voice AI platform merging OpenAI and Whisper for effective speech-to-text and text-to-speech solutions on Node.js/PostgreSQL backend with React frontend hosted on AWS, designed to ensure low voice latency for fluid dialogue.
- Refined answer accuracy for real user queries, addressing challenges of user confidence in automated responses.
- Developed superpowere.ai, a real-time voice AI platform integrating OpenAI and Whisper for seamless speech-to-text and text-to-speech solutions on Node.js/PostgreSQL backend with React frontend hosted on AWS, ensuring low voice latency for fluid dialogue.
Software Engineer
V8 Digital Solutions
07.2022 - 12.2023
- Designed and implemented internal CRM as full-stack solution — schema design, backend REST APIs, authentication, React frontend, and AWS deployment — transitioning from groundwork to production.
- Executed pureom (contract via disrupt.com) as sole engineer overseeing all architectural decisions from data model to UI, ensuring quality without additional engineer for error detection.
- Developed scalable web applications using JavaScript and React frameworks.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliverables.
- Implemented unit testing procedures to ensure code quality and maintainability.
Education
B.Sc. - Computer Software Engineering
University of Karachi
Karachi, Pakistan01-2025
Skills
Python
Node
SQL
NoSQL
TypeScript
Docker
Kubernetes
System design
API design
Testing
Code review
Technical documentation
Production support
Incident response
Cross-functional collaboration
Agile/Scrum
Stakeholder communication
Javascript
RAG/LLM
Agentic Workflows
Terraform
CI/CD Pipelines
Git/GitHub
Certification
IBM Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate, IBM
Timeline
Software Engineer (Python & AI)
Blue Ocean Strategic Partners
04.2026 - Current
Software Consultant
10Pearls
09.2025 - 04.2026
Software Engineer
Binate
07.2024 - 08.2025
Software Engineer
WeUno Technologies
01.2024 - 06.2024
Software Engineer
V8 Digital Solutions
07.2022 - 12.2023
B.Sc. - Computer Software Engineering
University of Karachi