Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer

I ship production software at the pace of a whole team.

I turn ambiguous ideas into production-grade products with React, Next.js, and Node. 8+ years owning features end to end, now using AI to deliver at the pace of a much larger team without trading away quality.

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Open to senior roles and select freelance projects.

8+ yrs
Shipping products
300k+
Users verified at scale
65%
Faster hiring screens
70%
Faster knowledge retrieval
Nawaz Akram

Product-minded engineer who treats AI as a force multiplier.

I'm Nawaz, a software engineer who's worked with teams across the US, Singapore, and beyond from my base in Islamabad. Over eight years I've taken products from a blank canvas to production and the metrics that follow. I care about the outcome, not just the code: the hire that gets made faster, the user who gets verified in seconds, the team that stops drowning in manual work. Lately I've been building AI systems that quietly do the work of several people, so the humans can focus on what matters.

How I Build

I build like a team of one.

AI isn't autocomplete for me. It's an operating system for shipping. I've built a disciplined, agentic workflow that compresses work that used to take a team a full quarter into days or weeks, without cutting corners on tests or architecture.

01 · Spec-driven with BMAD

Idea to PRD, architecture, and sharded stories before code. The planning a PM, architect, and lead used to do, run as one tight loop.

02 · Agentic build with Claude Code

I orchestrate fleets of AI agents via Claude Code and Superpowers: brainstorming, TDD, parallel subagents. I architect the system; agents execute under direction.

03 · Review & verify

Adversarial code review, verification-before-completion, and real tests keep quality high. Speed never means sloppy.

IdeaSpec (BMAD)PlanParallel agents buildReview + verifyShip
The old way
A team + a quarter
My way
One engineer + AI, days to weeks

Selected Work

Outcomes, not just output.

HR Tech Platform

In-Product AI Assistant

The platform needed an AI assistant that could safely take real actions, not just answer questions.

58
AI tools shipped (read + action)
Solo
Architected end to end
Audited
Guardrails + full logging
TypeScriptNode.jsReactOpenAIAnthropicSSE
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Charity / Nonprofit

Charity Donation Platform

A Canadian charity's donation and fundraising experience, rebuilt as a custom platform they fully own.

Owned
Custom platform, not rented forms
Recurring
One-time + monthly giving
Automated
Receipts, emails & admin
Next.jsTypeScriptPrismaMySQLStripeBullMQ / RedisWordPress
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HR / EOR Platform

Time-Off & Attendance Platform

Global employers needed leave and attendance that respect the rules of every country they hire in.

Primary
Engineer for the whole domain
3 portals
Customer, employee, admin
Global
Per-country policy engine
TypeScriptReactRedux-SagaNode.jsSequelizePostgreSQL
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Recruiting Platform

AI Talent Screening: Foundations

Manual candidate screening was slow and inconsistent, before AI screening became core to the product.

65%
Faster initial screening
First
AI screening in the product
Automated
Relevancy scoring + auto-reject
TypeScriptNode.jsReactMachine LearningOpenAI
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Mobility Marketplace

Identity Verification at Scale

A peer-to-peer marketplace needed trustworthy identity checks and faster performance.

300k+
Users verified
17%
More bookings
25-30%
Faster page loads
MongoDBExpressReactNode.jsKYC / Identity SDK
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Marketplace

Antiques Marketplace

A US marketplace for antiques and vintage goods, across web and native mobile apps.

AI
Listings auto-filled from photos
Checkout
Rebuilt for a faster buy
Live
Real-time video selling
ReactReduxNode.jsSharetribe FlexAnthropicLiveKitCapacitor
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Experience

Where I've shipped.

  1. Jun 2021 to Present
    Full-Stack Product Engineer
    Edge Services and Solutions
    • Architected and shipped an in-product AI assistant essentially solo: a provider-neutral orchestrator with 58 typed tools, streaming responses, role-scoped access, and prompt-injection guardrails.
    • Laid the foundations for AI-driven talent screening (relevancy scoring and auto-rejection), cutting initial screening time by up to 65%.
    • Primary engineer for the time-off and attendance domain: customer, employee, and admin portals, per-country leave policy logic, clock-in and shift handling, timesheets, and automated approval jobs.
    • Owns features end to end across nine repositories and roughly 1,900 commits, from Postgres and Sequelize models to Redux-Saga React screens.
    • Drove platform-wide migrations (Material-UI v4 to v9, JavaScript to TypeScript) and authored much of the shared, Storybook-tested component library, alongside billing and payroll surfaces and core plumbing (RBAC, feature flags, analytics, SSO).
  2. Jul 2022 to Dec 2022
    MERN Stack Engineer (contract)
    DriveLah
    • Shipped Onfido identity verification to 300k+ users across Singapore and Australia, strengthening trust on a peer-to-peer marketplace.
    • Re-architected the React app backend, cutting page load times 25-30% for a faster, smoother booking experience.
    • Resolved 100+ production bugs and integrated multiple third-party APIs, driving a 20% lift in engagement and a 17% increase in bookings.
  3. Sep 2021 to Mar 2022
    React Native & WordPress Developer (contract)
    Unation
    • Rebuilt company websites in custom WordPress and PHP, cutting bounce rate 25% and growing site traffic 30%.
    • Ran SEO and A/B testing programs that drove a 20% increase in organic traffic and a 15% lift in interaction metrics.
    • Shipped an interactive ticket-booking system and React Native mobile experiences, improving user satisfaction 20% and completed transactions 10%.
  4. Jan 2018 to Feb 2020
    Full Stack Engineer
    Asasa
    • Shipped an inventory management system and an online marketplace with 360-degree virtual tours, cutting operational inefficiency 30%.
    • Built the company's first lead and inventory management system, improving data access and decision-making 25%.
    • Built and maintained MERN applications and RESTful APIs, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
  5. 2016 to 2018
    BE, Computer Software Engineering
    NUST, Islamabad

Skills

The toolkit.

Frontend
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptReact NativeAngularHTML5CSS3
Backend
Node.jsExpress.jsNest.jsPythonPHPRESTGraphQL
Databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisMySQL
Cloud & DevOps
AWSGoogle CloudDockerCI/CDGit/GitHub
AI & Integrations
OpenAI (GPT-4)RAG chatbotsSalesforceTwilioOnfidoPardotPandaDoc
AI Engineering Methodology
BMADClaude CodeSuperpowersSpec-driven devAgentic subagentsTDD

Contact

Let's build something.

Hiring, or have a product to ship? Book a 30-minute call, or reach me directly. I read and reply to every serious message.

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