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Rashid.
Backend engineer. DevOps enthusiast. Always in a terminal.
CS at FAST-NUCES, Karachi. I build backend systems that hold up under pressure, obsess over how infrastructure actually works, and have spent more time in a terminal than I would like to admit.
p.s. — open to backend & DevOps roles
Backend first. Infrastructure curious.
I don’t just write APIs — I care about what happens after the code ships. Deployments, pipelines, containers, observability. The whole system. My work has ranged from building production backends with real users to writing a load balancer from scratch to understand how traffic actually moves.
Right now I am most drawn to Go, gRPC, microservices, and infrastructure work— the kinds of problems where decisions are hard to undo and correctness actually matters.
I gravitate toward early-stage companies where ownership is real. I want to understand the whole system.
Core stack
Languages and frameworks are just tools. I focus on engineering fundamentals — concurrency, network protocols, database internals, and systems architecture — which make it easy to adapt quickly to any stack.
Languages
Backend & APIs
Infrastructure & DevOps
Frontend (when I have to)
Where I’ve been.
- Built production-ready full-stack applications with AI integrations, including LLMs and RAG pipelines.
- Architected and managed AWS cloud infrastructure — configuring VPC networking, subnets and security groups, deploying EC2 VPS instances, Amazon RDS databases, and Application Load Balancers.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and data engineers to build backend services and data ingestion pipelines.
- Improved internal business processes and SOPs while troubleshooting infrastructure issues and resolving production tickets.
- Built backend services across booking, user management, notifications, and platform infrastructure.
- Managed cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Docker, Nginx, and production environments on a VPS.
- Implemented event-driven processing using queues, handling 1,000+ asynchronous jobs daily.
- Collaborated with frontend developers to design APIs, document endpoints, and deliver production features.
- Developed and maintained backend APIs using Node.js and Prisma ORM to manage app data efficiently.
- Integrated backend services with a React Polaris frontend to support seamless user interactions.
- Collaborated with the team to implement features, optimize performance, and fix bugs in a fast-paced environment.
- Gained practical experience working within the Shopify ecosystem and its app development standards.
Education
Things I’ve built, end to end.
Every project I own completely — architecture, backend, deployment. Open any card for the full story.
Enterprise DevOps & Vulnerability Assessment platform featuring containerized tool orchestration, automated scanning pipelines, Prometheus metrics, and Grafana observability dashboards.
Collaborative research platform with shared vaults, AI-powered document Q&A (RAG), real-time annotations, team chat, and role-based access control.
HTTP load balancer built from scratch in Go with multiple algorithms, active health checking, dynamic server spinning, and a real-time traffic visualization dashboard.
AI-powered timeline planner with visual roadmaps, milestone tracking, forking, and AI-generated learning paths.
More on GitHub.
Let’s talk. I don’t bite.
I am open to backend and DevOps roles. Always up for talking backend, infrastructure, or whatever you are building.
Best way to reach me is email. I respond.