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I’m Umar Rashid, a full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling products across healthcare, education, publishing, and AI. I work across React/Next.js and Node.js/Nest.js with TypeScript, turning high-fidelity designs into responsive, reliable user experiences and building the APIs and workflows that power them. I’ve led engineering teams and partnered closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver features like secure, compliant healthcare integrations (FHIR-based schemas), multi-tenant AI orchestration platforms, and data-driven dashboards. I’m especially interested in AI-enabled products and practical systems integration—whether that’s orchestrating routing/policy configuration with agent-ready tooling or improving performance, testing, and CI/CD for dependable releases.…I’m Umar Rashid, a full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling products across healthcare, education, publishing, and AI. I work across React/Next.js and Node.js/Nest.js with TypeScript, turning high-fidelity designs into responsive, reliable user experiences and building the APIs and workflows that power them. I’ve led engineering teams and partnered closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver features like secure, compliant healthcare integrations (FHIR-based schemas), multi-tenant AI orchestration platforms, and data-driven dashboards. I’m especially interested in AI-enabled products and practical systems integration—whether that’s orchestrating routing/policy configuration with agent-ready tooling or improving performance, testing, and CI/CD for dependable releases.

Umar Rashid

Full Stack Developer, Software Engineer, AI Developer, +3

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I’m Umar Rashid, a full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling products across healthcare, education, publishing, and AI. I work across React/Next.js and Node.js/Nest.js with TypeScript, turning high-fidelity designs into responsive, reliable user experiences and building the APIs and workflows that power them. I’ve led engineering teams and partnered closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver features like secure, compliant healthcare integrations (FHIR-based schemas), multi-tenant AI orchestration platforms, and data-driven dashboards. I’m especially interested in AI-enabled products and practical systems integration—whether that’s orchestrating routing/policy configuration with agent-ready tooling or improving performance, testing, and CI/CD for dependable releases.…I’m Umar Rashid, a full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling products across healthcare, education, publishing, and AI. I work across React/Next.js and Node.js/Nest.js with TypeScript, turning high-fidelity designs into responsive, reliable user experiences and building the APIs and workflows that power them. I’ve led engineering teams and partnered closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver features like secure, compliant healthcare integrations (FHIR-based schemas), multi-tenant AI orchestration platforms, and data-driven dashboards. I’m especially interested in AI-enabled products and practical systems integration—whether that’s orchestrating routing/policy configuration with agent-ready tooling or improving performance, testing, and CI/CD for dependable releases.

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I’m Umar Rashid, a full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling products across healthcare, education, publishing, and AI. I work across React/Next.js and Node.js/Nest.js with TypeScript, turning high-fidelity designs into responsive, reliable user experiences and building the APIs and workflows that power them.

I’ve led engineering teams and partnered closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver features like secure, compliant healthcare integrations (FHIR-based schemas), multi-tenant AI orchestration platforms, and data-driven dashboards. I’m especially interested in AI-enabled products and practical systems integration—whether that’s orchestrating routing/policy configuration with agent-ready tooling or improving performance, testing, and CI/CD for dependable releases.

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Lead Software Engineer (Contract) at Afiniti AI

March 1, 2026 - August 31, 2026

Led development of a multi-tenant, microservices-based AI orchestration platform for contact centres. Built a NestJS backend with a Next.js frontend, and implemented RESTful APIs for dynamic routing rules and business policy management via a Central Config Server. Delivered the Orchestrator UI using Next.js with MUI, Zustand and CopilotKit so operations teams could directly manage routing configuration previously handled by engineering. Architected an MCP server integration to expose Config API capabilities as agent-consumable tools.

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Skin Analytics

October 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025

Architected and delivered a React + TypeScript web application for health practitioners using Material-UI, Zustand, TanStack Query and React Hook Form. Implemented secure Node.js-based internal and external API integrations for prescription signing and dispensing, ensuring compliance and interoperability via FHIR-based schemas. Built user-centric capabilities including case search, AWS S3 image uploads, practitioner/patient registration, automated case assignment, and webhook validation for prescription workflows. Partnered with product and design to refine user stories and mentored junior developers on best practices in coding and testing.

Fractional CTO at Stealth Startup

July 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024

Directed a lean engineering team building an AI-driven customer review analysis platform, defining system architecture, coding standards and DevOps pipelines. Designed a scalable Docker Compose-based stack deployed on Azure App Service with an Nginx reverse proxy, integrating Node.js and Python FastAPI services. Led frontend development of Next.js/React dashboards (TypeScript) using Azure Language AI for sentiment analysis and integrated Stripe payments. Mentored junior engineers and supported hiring decisions for the development team.

Full Stack Engineer at Bright Sites

December 1, 2022 - May 1, 2024

Contributed to online publication platforms and a SaaS CMS (React, Styled Components, Node.js, Next.js), improving development, maintenance and performance for better user engagement. Migrated legacy JavaScript codebases to TypeScript to improve type safety and reduce defects. Optimized Core Web Vitals for SEO through refactoring and performance tuning. Expanded test coverage with Jest, Chromatic/Storybook and Cypress/Playwright. Automated CI/CD using GitHub Actions with Slack notifications, and mentored junior engineers on testing strategies and React best practices.

Full Stack Engineer at Mindful Education

February 1, 2021 - November 1, 2022

Contributed to an AWS-hosted Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) using React, Node.js and GraphQL with Semantic UI, supporting thousands of users in online education. Built interactive map visualizations with React and Leaflet to display UK colleges and course offerings. Developed reporting dashboards and backend APIs for event calendars and college representative assignments.

Javascript Engineer at Arena Flowers

November 1, 2020 - February 1, 2021

Developed a Trustpilot widget using Vanilla JavaScript and Liquid to display service and product reviews on the company website.

Full Stack Developer at Freelance Project

July 1, 2020 - September 1, 2020

Built a Node.js-based RESTful API using the Serverless Framework and a React front-end portal to send email and SMS. Implemented AWS Lambda and Amazon SNS (Service Notification Service) for message delivery.

Software Engineer at InfoSys

January 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020

Developed an email notification microservice as part of a Node.js-based business process automation system. Designed and developed a MuleSoft Middleware API in Java to access card and customer data for a loyalty card system.

Software Engineer at The Open University

May 1, 2015 - December 1, 2018

Worked on an online slideshow tool using Node.js and React that enables creating and sharing slides. Developed a Node.js microservice component to integrate SlideWiki with external Learning Management Tools such as Moodle.