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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.

About

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.

  • 21 years' experience
  • Joined December 2025

Industry experience

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

Work experience· 8 roles

Principal Engineer · Socials Tech 55Jul 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

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%.

Principal Engineer · Currency Cloud, UKJul 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs

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 · Currency CloudJun 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

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.

Lead Software Engineer (Contract) · Schlumberger, UKJun 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs
Senior Software Engineer · SchlumbergerJun 2017 – May 2019 · 2 yrs
Senior Software Engineer · Ascertia, UK - ADSS (Advanced Digital Signing Service)Aug 2010 – Apr 2017 · 6 yrs 9 mos
Senior Software Engineer · Ascertia / ADSS (Advanced Digital Signing Service)Aug 2010 – Apr 2017 · 6 yrs 9 mos
Professional Services Consultant · Teradata (Switzerland)Jul 2003 – Apr 2010 · 6 yrs 10 mos

Education

Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science · Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan1999 – 2003
Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science · Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan1999 – 2003

Certifications and awards· 6

ESG Compliance2030 – 2025
Certified Scrum Master2030 – 2025
Teradata Certified Master2030 – 2025
ESG Compliance2030 – 2025

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