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Faran Ali

Lead Software Engineer

Islamabad, Pakistan

Available for part-time and contract engagements.

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Professional Summary

Hands-on software engineer with 11+ years turning product requirements into working systems. I work across architecture, backend and interfaces, and stay accountable through delivery.

Built and modernized products including SAAML, JellyJar and Pulsar. My work spans multi-tenant platforms, browser tooling, integrations and developer tools, with attention to clear boundaries, reliable workflows and maintainable code.

Available for part-time and contract engagements: product builds, architecture and codebase reviews, modernization and technical leadership. I write production code and work directly with your team.

Selected Independent Work

Pulsar — AI-first Laravel architecture tool

Opinionated architecture for AI-driven mid-to-large-scale apps, with explicit, testable boundaries for developers and coding agents.

pulsar-arch.com | GitHub

JellyJar — Live SaaS - session capture & debugging platform

A bug-capturing tool that records browser, console, and network evidence into a reviewable debugging session.

jellyjar.app

Technical Skills

Product Engineering Hands-on Technical Leadership Software Architecture Laravel & PHP React & TypeScript Vue & Nuxt NestJS & Node.js PostgreSQL & MySQL Redis & Queues API & Webhook Integrations Multi-Tenant Systems Code Review & Mentoring Automated Testing AWS & CI/CD Platform Modernization AI-Assisted Engineering

Work Experience

04/2026 - Present

Engineering Lead at Elityx

Full-time · Remote | Logistics & Enterprise Platforms | Saudi Arabia Market

saaml.com | naglah.com

  • Own architecture, technology direction, and platform hardening across Elityx products while personally delivering the highest-risk implementation; drive one delivery team day to day and mentor a second — 10 engineers and 2 QA across backend, platform, and mobile — working directly with founders and executives.
  • Solo-built and delivered Naglah, a live furniture-movement service for the Saudi government, under a time-critical schedule; owned the product end to end with Pulsar.
  • Architected SAAML's provider-neutral external-3PL and carrier-aggregation layer, personally delivered Le Ajlak connectivity, then extended it to Saffa and Uniex over the LogesTechs protocol — partner onboarding, shop sync, idempotent dispatch, signed webhooks, status normalization, retries, and reconciliation.
  • Rebuilt SAAML's delivery pipeline as an atomic, self-verifying release system with health checks and automatic rollback, cutting CI time from roughly 10 minutes to under 2 minutes.
10/2022 - 03/2026

Technical Lead / Software Architect at Integrated IT Solutions

Full-time | Islamabad, Pakistan | Technical Lead 10/2022–12/2024, Software Architect 01/2025–03/2026 | Returned following the Turing engagement

mynemtbot.com | thekeyclinic.co.uk | rasenfunk.de

  • Owned architecture, delivery, infrastructure, and engineering standards across the product portfolio, leading 5 to 8 developers, 2 QA engineers, and a designer, reporting to the CTO and CEO, and institutionalizing AI-augmented delivery as team standard.
  • Led architecture and end-to-end delivery of a multi-tenant SaaS transportation-management system for U.S. NEMT providers, covering broker trip intake, dispatch, driver and vehicle operations, compliance capture, proof of trip, billing readiness, and reconciliation across 20+ tenants and 500+ vehicles.
  • Led architecture of Thrive Independently, a multi-tenant caregiver-operations platform — patient management, care plans, caregiver scheduling, execution logs, and operational dashboards — using Laravel with Lucid architecture, Vue/Quasar, and strict vertical domain boundaries.
  • Modernized Rasenfunk.de and The Key Clinic through domain restructuring, frontend migration, Redis caching, and query optimization, cutting the Rasenfunk homepage load time to under 500ms.
09/2021 - 09/2022

Senior Software Engineer at Turing

Full-time | Remote

  • Improved performance and production stability for AcquireCrowd, a lead-management platform processing roughly 1 million leads per month, deploying Redis clustering and removing N+1 query paths to improve average response times under load by 40 to 60 percent.
  • Modernized a legacy Laravel and Blade application through framework upgrades, an Inertia.js migration, and Lucid architecture, strengthening modularity, maintainability, and delivery safety.
05/2020 - 08/2021

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Integrated IT Solutions

Full-time | Rawalpindi, Pakistan

  • Modernized The Key Clinic with a Vue 3 and Quasar SPA and cleaner Laravel domain boundaries, integrated Xero, Twilio, Cliniko, and online payments, and built the initial Rasenfunk.de platform on Nuxt 2 and Laravel.
07/2015 - 03/2020

Web Developer / Full Stack Web Developer at Seven Koncepts Pvt. Ltd.

Onsite | Internship Jul–Dec 2015; junior web development from Jan 2016, full stack from Sep 2017

  • Delivered Laravel, Vue, and WordPress platforms with APIs, e-commerce, and operations tooling, integrating Cybersource and PayPal across client projects.

AI Toolchain

Builds reusable agent skills, MCP integrations and delivery workflows. Uses AI for implementation, debugging and review while retaining direct ownership of architecture and code quality.

Claude Code Codex Custom Agent Skills MCP Servers AI-Assisted Testing

Education

09/2011 - 06/2015

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Iqra University

Language Skills

English (Full Professional Proficiency) | Urdu (Native)