Software Engineer · Full Stack · AI
Remote · Pakistan · 3+ years shipping production web & mobile
I build systems that hold up under real users — ride-hailing platforms, mobile apps at 10K+ downloads, franchise ops at 1,500+ locations, and open source used by 15M+ people. TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Next.js, React Native, and AI in production.
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Software Engineer · RideNear Multi-provider ride-hailing platform (B2B + B2C). End-to-end across frontend and backend — security, reliability, and product impact.
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GSoC Contributor — B0Bot · Google Summer of Code (C2SI) Modernizing B0Bot, a cybersecurity intelligence platform, from a Flask monolith to a production multi-service architecture.
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LLM Trainer · Turing LLM evaluation pipelines — model-breaking coding problems and automated review workflows.
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Freelance Full-Stack Engineer · Upwork 25+ end-to-end projects for startups and brands across fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, and education.
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Mentor · Dev Weekends Mentoring in a 20K+ nonprofit engineering community focused on DSA and full-stack growth.
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- Led P&L App from zero to App Store and Google Play — 10K+ downloads, 6K+ users, native Kotlin Discipline Mode, 20+ brokerages via SnapTrade, 500+ daily trade syncs
- At RideNear, cut B2B/B2C dashboard configuration time by 40% with RBAC across 45 permissions; shipped MCP-connected AI agent that supported funding and 2 enterprise clients
- Fixed critical bugs in Expensify (15M+ users) and earned a $500 bounty; through GSoC built B0Bot's RSS ingestion + BullMQ newsletter pipeline and shipped 13+ merged PRs to JSON-Schema
- Built QuickStart AI — embeddable RAG chatbot on npm with 1,500+ weekly downloads, hybrid BM25 + vector search, FastAPI backend handling 40+ concurrent admin sessions
- Delivered franchise platform for R&B Tea (1,500+ locations, 100+ partnership requests), San Tommaso resort booking (Guesty + Stripe, localization doubled conversion), and Dental Strivers LMS (200+ concurrent learners)
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P&L App · React Native · Node.js · Kotlin |
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QuickStart AI · Next.js · FastAPI · RAG |
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| Project | Contribution |
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| Expensify | Critical production bug fixes on a 15M+ user expense app · $500 bounty |
| JSON-Schema (ajv) | 13+ merged PRs — async validation hooks, localized error messages (GSoC) |
| B0Bot | GSoC — microservices refactor, RSS ingestion pipeline, pgvector embeddings, BullMQ newsletters |
Articles on agents, system design, and backend engineering — full list on aqibnawab.vercel.app/blogs.
- From Prompt Engineering to Loop Engineering — agents, harness engineering, verification loops
- How Twenty Queries Tables That Don't Exist in the Codebase — dynamic schema generation, PostgreSQL, SaaS architecture
- MCP vs A2A — when to use each protocol for AI agent communication
- Performance Testing Node.js Applications — 10K → 86K req/s with clustering and Fastify
- WebRTC: Real-Time Communication on the Web — signaling, STUN/TURN, P2P connections
Frontend — React · Next.js · TypeScript · React Native · Redux · Tailwind CSS · Material UI · Zod
Backend — Node.js · NestJS · Express · FastAPI · GraphQL · WebSockets · REST · Redis · BullMQ · Prisma · Socket.io
Data — PostgreSQL · MongoDB · MySQL · Supabase · pgvector · Firebase
AI — LangChain · LangGraph · RAG · Pinecone · OpenAI · MCP · AI Agents
DevOps — Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Azure · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Linux · Vercel
Bachelor's in Information Technology · University of Education, Township · 2022 — 2026
Intermediate in Computer Science · Aspire College Chunian · 2020 — 2022
Open to full-time roles, contract work, and open-source collaborations.
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