Faran Ali
Senior Software Engineer
Islamabad, Pakistan
Available for remote full-time, part-time and contract roles.
Professional Summary
Hands-on software engineer with 11+ years of experience building and modernizing production applications. Combines full-stack implementation with architectural ownership, code review and team delivery.
Production experience across Laravel, PHP, TypeScript, React, Vue, NestJS, relational databases, queues and cloud infrastructure. Work includes multi-tenant platforms, complex integrations, payment workflows and developer tooling.
Seeking senior software engineer and hands-on engineering lead roles. Available for full-time, part-time and contract work, with a focus on building reliable products and helping teams deliver.
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
- Lead SAAML hands-on: set the technical and feature roadmap, delegate and unblock delivery across the engineering team, and personally build and modernize critical product capabilities.
- Audit inherited platforms across architecture, codebase, multi-tenancy, authorization, API and webhook security, credential handling, and technical debt, then remediate the critical findings personally and drive the prioritized modernization roadmap.
- 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.
- Built a provider-neutral external-3PL and carrier-aggregation layer for the SAAML logistics platform, personally delivering partner connectivity with encrypted credentials, idempotent dispatch, signed webhooks, status normalization, retries, and reconciliation.
- Rebuilt delivery pipelines as atomic, self-verifying release systems with health checks and automatic rollback, cutting CI time from roughly 10 minutes to under 2 minutes, and modernized an inherited platform onto its canonical Blade and Vite stack, cutting page load time by around 40%.
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 hands-on architecture, delivery, PR reviews, and client-facing requirements across concurrent projects, leading 5 to 8 developers, 2 QA engineers, and a designer, 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)