Senior engineer with experience in AI and fintech, working on banking, payments, and fraud systems. I lead GenAI projects end-to-end, using LLMs, cloud, and MLOps to take PoCs into production.

Senior engineer with experience in AI and fintech, working on banking, payments, and fraud systems. I lead GenAI projects end-to-end, using LLMs, cloud, and MLOps to take PoCs into production.

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Senior engineer with experience in AI and fintech, working on banking, payments, and fraud systems. I lead GenAI projects end-to-end, using LLMs, cloud, and MLOps to take PoCs into production.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Principal Engineer at Socials Tech 55
July 1, 2022 - December 1, 2025
Led a remote engineering team to improve performance metrics by 30% and reduce deployment time and increase system throughput. Implemented Canary deployments (Docker + Kubernetes) with CI/CD pipelines, reducing downtime by 50%. Designed monitoring, alerting, and logging frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, custom Python daemons) ensuring 99.9% uptime for production systems. Integrated AI-powered vision systems for fraud detection and identity verification (Truth project) using React.js + Node.js with a Java (Spring) backend, improving detection accuracy by 35%.
Lead Software Engineer at Currency Cloud
June 1, 2019 - June 1, 2022
Built financial payments systems using Node.js and Go, with health checks and Blue-Green deployments. Built a live auto-trade currency exchange subsystem with optimized database and application performance (PostgreSQL, MongoDB), achieving 40% faster query response times in production. Used message queues, Kafka streams, and Lambda functions for data pipelines and remote node orchestration.
Senior Software Engineer at Schlumberger
June 1, 2017 - May 1, 2019
Worked on Decline Curve generation and data visualization in a Reactive System using Angular and Golang.
Senior Software Engineer at Ascertia / ADSS (Advanced Digital Signing Service)
August 1, 2010 - April 1, 2017
Worked on cryptography, PKI and certificate signing use cases.
Professional Services Consultant at Teradata (Switzerland)
July 1, 2003 - April 1, 2010
Led teams on various data warehouse and business intelligence projects.
Principal Engineer at Currency Cloud, UK
July 1, 2019 - June 1, 2022
Built financial payments systems using Node.js and Golang, with health checks, and Blue-Green deployments. Built live auto-trade currency exchange sub-system with optimized database and application performance (PostgreSQL, MongoDB), achieving 40% faster query response times in production. Used Message Queues, Kafka streams and Lambda functions for data pipelines for remote node orchestration.
Lead Software Engineer (Contract) at Schlumberger, UK
June 1, 2017 - May 1, 2019
Worked on decline curves generation and data visualization in a Reactive System using Angular & Golang.
Senior Software Engineer at Ascertia, UK - ADSS (Advanced Digital Signing Service)
August 1, 2010 - April 1, 2017
Worked on cryptography, PKI, and certificate signing use cases.

Education

Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan
September 1, 1999 - June 30, 2003
Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan
September 1, 1999 - June 1, 2003

Qualifications

ESG Compliance
January 11, 2030 - December 15, 2025
Certified Scrum Master
January 11, 2030 - December 15, 2025
Teradata Certified Master
January 11, 2030 - December 15, 2025
ESG Compliance
January 11, 2030 - December 15, 2025
Certified Scrum Master
January 11, 2030 - December 15, 2025
Teradata Certified Master
January 11, 2030 - December 15, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Retail, Telecommunications, Computers & Electronics, Media & Entertainment