I’m Umer Wali, a full-stack developer and team lead with hands-on experience building production-grade backend systems and AI/LLM workflows. I’ve worked on server-side AI engineering tasks like RAG pipelines, structured outputs, tool-calling/agent orchestration, and evaluation harnesses—always focused on correctness, grounding, and resilient failure handling. I also enjoy shipping real user-facing products end-to-end, from architecture and documentation to deployment and delivery. Recently, I built a WhatsApp-native AI sales agent for a multi-tenant firearms retail workflow (zero-UI), and I’ve been developing a low-latency C++ arbitrage bot for Polymarket. Alongside engineering, my background in cybersecurity helps me take security and incident-aware design seriously across deployments, APIs, and data systems.

UMER WALI

I’m Umer Wali, a full-stack developer and team lead with hands-on experience building production-grade backend systems and AI/LLM workflows. I’ve worked on server-side AI engineering tasks like RAG pipelines, structured outputs, tool-calling/agent orchestration, and evaluation harnesses—always focused on correctness, grounding, and resilient failure handling. I also enjoy shipping real user-facing products end-to-end, from architecture and documentation to deployment and delivery. Recently, I built a WhatsApp-native AI sales agent for a multi-tenant firearms retail workflow (zero-UI), and I’ve been developing a low-latency C++ arbitrage bot for Polymarket. Alongside engineering, my background in cybersecurity helps me take security and incident-aware design seriously across deployments, APIs, and data systems.

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I’m Umer Wali, a full-stack developer and team lead with hands-on experience building production-grade backend systems and AI/LLM workflows. I’ve worked on server-side AI engineering tasks like RAG pipelines, structured outputs, tool-calling/agent orchestration, and evaluation harnesses—always focused on correctness, grounding, and resilient failure handling.

I also enjoy shipping real user-facing products end-to-end, from architecture and documentation to deployment and delivery. Recently, I built a WhatsApp-native AI sales agent for a multi-tenant firearms retail workflow (zero-UI), and I’ve been developing a low-latency C++ arbitrage bot for Polymarket. Alongside engineering, my background in cybersecurity helps me take security and incident-aware design seriously across deployments, APIs, and data systems.

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Work Experience

Satellite-Based Supply-Chain Risk Monitoring Developer (Personal/Project) at Acreon (Zero Point Intel)
January 1, 2026 - Present
Built a satellite-based risk monitoring platform for food buyers to surface early crop stress and lead-time signals (up to ~8 weeks) from Sentinel-2/Copernicus imagery. Processed SAR and optical satellite data in Python and computed vegetation indices like NDVI/NDRE to convert remote-sensing inputs into actionable risk signals.
Backend AI Engineer / Full-Stack AI Systems (Personal Project) at Rabta AI
January 1, 2026 - Present
Engineered a production-grade, multi-tenant WhatsApp-native AI sales assistant delivered via the WhatsApp Business Platform/Cloud API with no app or website. Built deterministic LangGraph orchestration with dedicated customer and owner flows, used Gemini for language generation, and implemented a bilingual intent extraction pipeline returning strict JSON with regex fallback. Added grounded recommendations via PostgreSQL + pgvector catalog embeddings with instant cache invalidation on inventory/price changes, plus owner escalation and multi-turn intake flows with atomic thread-state resets. Integrated voice transcription (Deepgram) and deployed on Docker Compose (Vultr VPS) with isolated tenant IDs.
Backend AI Engineer (Intern) at FlyRank AI
January 1, 2026 - Present
Selected for the Backend AI Engineering track, focusing on server-side AI systems and production workflows. Worked on AI backend tasks including API contracts, retrieval-backed answer flows, structured outputs, tool-calling/agent loops, and rubric-based evaluation. Documented design decisions, verification notes, and recommended improvements in an evidence-based review process.
Lead Developer (Team Lead) at From Tribe (Zero Point Intel) — Multi-Vendor E-Commerce Marketplace
January 1, 2025 - Present
Led a 3-developer team under mentorship of a senior cloud architect to ship a multi-vendor marketplace connecting EU artisan brands with customers. Built a Next.js 14 storefront and Medusa.js commerce backend including multi-vendor order routing and split payouts. Implemented a PostgreSQL/Prisma data layer, Stripe Connect payouts, and Redis caching. Supported a business model with a flat 13% commission and zero listing fees to improve brand competitiveness without ad spend.
Incident Management System Developer (Course Project) at GIKI (CS-232 DBMS course)
January 1, 2025 - Present
Built a full-stack incident management system using Node.js, Express, React/Vite, and PostgreSQL. Implemented a relational schema for real-time logging and audit-trail tracking. Added JWT authentication with bcrypt password hashing and RBAC middleware to support multi-role access and system integrity.
HFT Arbitrage Bot Developer (Personal Project) at Polymarket V2
January 1, 2025 - Present
Architected and deployed a C++ low-latency arbitrage bot using the Polymarket V2 CLOB API to execute latency-aware statistical arbitrage strategies. Implemented sub-millisecond signing and optimized hot paths using zero-allocation techniques and lock-free data structures with strict memory alignment. Deployed on Google Cloud (Singapore) for exchange proximity, targeting tick-to-trade latency under 50µs and sustained burst throughput. Designed FOK dual-leg execution to reduce leg risk and performed a security-focused rewrite after auditing a predecessor implementation.
Freelance Developer & Consultant at Various international clients
January 1, 2024 - Present
Delivered custom software and web projects for international clients, covering the full development lifecycle from scoping and planning through delivery. Managed end-to-end implementation while coordinating requirements and timelines across remote collaboration.

Education

BS Cybersecurity at GIKI
January 1, 2026 - January 1, 2026
HSSC in Pre-Engineering + Mathematics at Abbottabad Public School
June 1, 2022 - September 1, 2026

Qualifications

Google Security Operations — SOAR Analyst
June 1, 2026 - September 1, 2026
Oracle Certified AI Foundations Associate
May 1, 2024 - September 1, 2026
Claude Code 101 Certification
January 11, 2030 - September 1, 2026
Kali Linux (Coursera)
May 1, 2024 - September 1, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Financial Services, Education, Professional Services, Other