Staff Software Engineer with 5+ years of recent hands-on experience building and scaling high-performance backend systems and cloud-native platforms. Skilled in microservices, event-driven architectures, and secure API development, with a proven track record of delivering real-time and high-volume workflows. Experienced in leading complex technical initiatives and mentoring teams in remote, international environments. Hands-on with AWS/GCP/Azure, Kafka/Pub/Sub, CI/CD, and LLM-powered AI integrations including RAG and semantic search.

Minhaj Uddin

Staff Software Engineer with 5+ years of recent hands-on experience building and scaling high-performance backend systems and cloud-native platforms. Skilled in microservices, event-driven architectures, and secure API development, with a proven track record of delivering real-time and high-volume workflows. Experienced in leading complex technical initiatives and mentoring teams in remote, international environments. Hands-on with AWS/GCP/Azure, Kafka/Pub/Sub, CI/CD, and LLM-powered AI integrations including RAG and semantic search.

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Staff Software Engineer with 5+ years of recent hands-on experience building and scaling high-performance backend systems and cloud-native platforms. Skilled in microservices, event-driven architectures, and secure API development, with a proven track record of delivering real-time and high-volume workflows.

Experienced in leading complex technical initiatives and mentoring teams in remote, international environments. Hands-on with AWS/GCP/Azure, Kafka/Pub/Sub, CI/CD, and LLM-powered AI integrations including RAG and semantic search.

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Staff Engineer at ARPLACE
January 1, 2024 - Present
Designed and implemented a high-performance microservices architecture for an augmented-reality platform, improving system responsiveness by 78%. Built scalable, secure, well-documented REST APIs consumed by web and mobile clients. Developed real-time collaboration features reducing latency by 40% and improving user engagement by 25%. Established end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using self-hosted GitLab Runners, automating release stability and increasing deployment frequency for Google Cloud environments.
Software Engineer at EMUMBA
November 1, 2020 - December 31, 2023
Engineered an event-driven wallet funding workflow using Google Pub/Sub, supporting high-volume transactions and eliminating financial discrepancies at scale. Led the design of a vendor engagement platform improving partner satisfaction by 25%. Delivered a re-branded product search experience increasing click-through rate (CTR) by 40%. Drove scalability and reliability improvements through performance testing and AWS infrastructure optimization. Developed a Nest-based microservice integrating an OpenAI LLM for dynamic invoice understanding, verification, and response generation upon approval/disapproval.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at University of Peshawar
January 11, 2030 - July 15, 2026

Qualifications

DeepLearning.ai: Generative AI for Software Development
January 11, 2030 - July 15, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
January 11, 2030 - July 15, 2026
AWS Certified: Solutions Architect – Professional
January 11, 2030 - July 15, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Telecommunications

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