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I'm Saad Jamil Akhtar, a senior backend systems engineer with 5+ years building integration-heavy SaaS platforms. I design end-to-end architectures, centralize product and order calculation logic, define service boundaries, and selectively introduce microservices to keep systems scalable without unnecessary complexity. I'm experienced leading backend teams across multiple SaaS projects, delivering real-time integrations with third-party services (WooCommerce, NTAK, QERKO), optimizing pipelines and databases, and delivering customer-facing frontends while enforcing engineering standards across the codebase.…I'm Saad Jamil Akhtar, a senior backend systems engineer with 5+ years building integration-heavy SaaS platforms. I design end-to-end architectures, centralize product and order calculation logic, define service boundaries, and selectively introduce microservices to keep systems scalable without unnecessary complexity. I'm experienced leading backend teams across multiple SaaS projects, delivering real-time integrations with third-party services (WooCommerce, NTAK, QERKO), optimizing pipelines and databases, and delivering customer-facing frontends while enforcing engineering standards across the codebase.

Saad Jamil Akhtar

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I'm Saad Jamil Akhtar, a senior backend systems engineer with 5+ years building integration-heavy SaaS platforms. I design end-to-end architectures, centralize product and order calculation logic, define service boundaries, and selectively introduce microservices to keep systems scalable without unnecessary complexity. I'm experienced leading backend teams across multiple SaaS projects, delivering real-time integrations with third-party services (WooCommerce, NTAK, QERKO), optimizing pipelines and databases, and delivering customer-facing frontends while enforcing engineering standards across the codebase.…I'm Saad Jamil Akhtar, a senior backend systems engineer with 5+ years building integration-heavy SaaS platforms. I design end-to-end architectures, centralize product and order calculation logic, define service boundaries, and selectively introduce microservices to keep systems scalable without unnecessary complexity. I'm experienced leading backend teams across multiple SaaS projects, delivering real-time integrations with third-party services (WooCommerce, NTAK, QERKO), optimizing pipelines and databases, and delivering customer-facing frontends while enforcing engineering standards across the codebase.

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I’m Saad Jamil Akhtar, a senior backend systems engineer with 5+ years building integration-heavy SaaS platforms. I design end-to-end architectures, centralize product and order calculation logic, define service boundaries, and selectively introduce microservices to keep systems scalable without unnecessary complexity.

I’m experienced leading backend teams across multiple SaaS projects, delivering real-time integrations with third-party services (WooCommerce, NTAK, QERKO), optimizing pipelines and databases, and delivering customer-facing frontends while enforcing engineering standards across the codebase.

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Senior Backend Systems Engineer (Contract) at GoOrderz

December 2, 2022 - Present

Architected GoOrderz v2 from the ground up, centralizing product and order calculation logic, defining service boundaries, and introducing microservices to keep the system scalable with manageable complexity. Designed and isolated 6–9 third-party integrations (WooCommerce, NTAK, QERKO), enabling real-time WebSocket communication and reliable data flows. Optimized production load with Redis caching and shared data schemas, supporting hundreds of requests per second and thousands of concurrent users. Led a backend team of 4 and established company-wide backend architecture and engineering standards, shaping how new services are built and reviewed.

Senior Software Engineer, Data BI

June 1, 2020 - November 1, 2022

Led backend team of 6 across 4+ SaaS platforms, improving data processing efficiency by ~40% and cutting pipeline processing times by ~35%. Designed ETL pipelines integrating SQL/NoSQL databases with Redis caching and deployed across a shared data platform. Built a modular backend architecture and established benchmarks for data quality, reliability, and performance.

Full Stack Engineer (Contract) at Cassandra

June 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025

Led migration from Django templates to React, replacing unmaintainable jQuery code and designing a rollout strategy that enabled incremental delivery without disrupting the live platform. Built large data pipelines over millions of rows, reducing manual analysis and boosting campaign optimization by ~20%. Developed core backend systems (APIs, OAuth authentication, and security fixes) and defined React architecture across the codebase, cutting feature delivery time by ~25%.