Faran Ali
Lead Software Engineer
Islamabad, Pakistan
Available for part-time and contract engagements.
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.
JellyJar — Live SaaS - session capture & debugging platform
A bug-capturing tool that records browser, console, and network evidence into a reviewable debugging session.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
Engineering Lead at Elityx
Full-time · Remote | Logistics & Enterprise Platforms | Saudi Arabia Market
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Iqra University
Language Skills
English (Full Professional Proficiency) | Urdu (Native)