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Faran Ali Ahmed

Technical Lead | Software Architect | Engineering Lead

Islamabad, Pakistan

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Professional Summary

Technical Lead and Software Architect with 10+ years delivering and modernizing SaaS platforms across healthcare, transportation, media, and operations.

Combines hands-on full stack depth with architecture ownership, cross-functional leadership, and end-to-end delivery across multi-tenant platforms, modernization programs, and cloud-backed product environments.

Strong across Laravel, NestJS, React, Vue.js, system design, CI/CD, infrastructure, and AI-assisted engineering enablement.

Technical Skills

Technical Leadership Software Architecture Engineering Delivery System Design Stakeholder Management Code Review & Mentoring Multi-Tenant SaaS System Modernization Microservices Domain-Driven Design Laravel NestJS React Vue.js PHP TypeScript Redis MySQL PostgreSQL AWS Docker CI/CD Infrastructure Operations Payment Integrations AI-Assisted Development

Work Experience

01/2025 - Present

Software Architect at Integrated IT Solutions

Full-time | Islamabad, Pakistan

  • Promoted to Software Architect after more than 2 years as Technical Lead; owns architecture and engineering delivery across the product portfolio and reports directly to the CTO and CEO.
  • Leads a cross-functional team of 5 to 8 developers, 2 QA engineers, and 1 designer across architecture, infrastructure, engineering standards, code review, and project delivery.
  • Architects a multi-tenant caregiver operations platform covering patient management, care plans, caregiver scheduling, execution logs, and operational dashboards using Laravel, Lucid architecture, Vue, and Quasar.
  • Designed and delivered an internal platform using NestJS microservices with NATS and Redis Pub/Sub and a React frontend, while rolling out AI-assisted engineering workflows that improved developer productivity and reduced delivery time by roughly 50%.
  • Established portfolio-wide delivery standards across CI/CD, cloud/runtime operations, centralized HTML-to-PDF generation, and payment integrations.
10/2022 - 12/2024

Technical Lead at Integrated IT Solutions

Full-time | Islamabad, Pakistan

  • Owned team delivery, architecture decisions, PR reviews, planning, and client-facing requirements across multiple concurrent projects.
  • Led architecture and end-to-end delivery of a multi-tenant SaaS platform for U.S. NEMT providers, covering trip assignment, dispatch, compliance capture, and billing readiness across 20+ tenants and 500+ vehicles.
  • Modernized Rasenfunk.de from spreadsheet and Airtable workflows to Laravel and Nova, then led a full upgrade to Nuxt 3, Vue 3, and Laravel 10 with Redis caching and indexing that reduced homepage load time to under 500ms.
  • Designed and led development of The Key Clinic corporate portal, continued evolving the backend toward Lucid architecture, and integrated Stripe and Braintree payment workflows across client platforms.
09/2021 - 09/2022

Senior Software Engineer at Turing

Full-time | Remote

  • Improved backend performance and production stability for AcquireCrowd, a lead management platform processing roughly 1 million leads per month.
  • Deployed a Redis cluster and optimized high-frequency query paths, removing N+1 issues and improving average response times under load by 40 to 60 percent.
  • Migrated a legacy Laravel and Blade application to Inertia.js, upgraded Laravel, and introduced Lucid architecture to improve modularity and maintainability.
05/2020 - 08/2021

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Integrated IT Solutions

Full-time | Rawalpindi, Pakistan

  • Led modernization of The Key Clinic by replacing a Blade and jQuery frontend with a Vue 3 and Quasar SPA, while restructuring the Laravel backend around Lucid architecture and cleaner domain boundaries.
  • Applied query optimization and caching strategies that supported roughly 250 percent user growth after relaunch.
  • Integrated Xero, Twilio, Cliniko, and online payments while supporting infrastructure and deployment, and built the initial version of Rasenfunk.de using Nuxt 2, Vue 2, and Laravel.
07/2016 - 03/2020

Software Engineer at Seven Koncepts Pvt. Ltd.

Full-time

  • Delivered Laravel and Vue-based systems across client projects including Alucobond NZ, Pepsi Battle of the Bands, and Canadian Down and Feather, covering backend architecture, APIs, and internal operations tooling.
  • Completed more than 10 WordPress projects and integrated Cybersource and PayPal into ecommerce and client platforms.

Education

09/2011 - 06/2015

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Iqra University

Language Skills

English (C2 - Bilingual) | Urdu (C2 - Native)