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Faran Ali Ahmed

Senior Full Stack Engineer | Technical Lead

Islamabad, Pakistan

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Professional Summary

Senior Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years building and modernizing SaaS platforms across healthcare, transportation, media, and operations.

Delivers hands-on backend and frontend architecture using Laravel, NestJS, React, Vue.js, TypeScript, Redis, SQL databases, and cloud-backed deployment workflows.

Brings lead-level ownership across delivery, code quality, modernization, and engineering standards while remaining deeply involved in implementation on complex production systems.

Technical Skills

Laravel NestJS React Vue.js PHP TypeScript JavaScript Redis MySQL PostgreSQL AWS Docker CI/CD Multi-Tenant SaaS System Modernization Software Architecture Technical Leadership Engineering Delivery Code Review & Mentoring Microservices 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 and continues to drive hands-on architecture and delivery across the product portfolio.
  • Works across architecture, code review, infrastructure, and implementation with a cross-functional team of 5 to 8 developers, 2 QA engineers, and 1 designer.
  • Led design and delivery of a multi-tenant caregiver operations platform 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.
  • Rolled out AI-assisted engineering workflows and delivery standards across CI/CD, cloud/runtime operations, centralized HTML-to-PDF generation, and payment integrations, improving productivity and reducing delivery time by roughly 50%.
10/2022 - 12/2024

Technical Lead at Integrated IT Solutions

Full-time | Islamabad, Pakistan

  • Owned hands-on architecture, delivery, PR reviews, and client-facing requirements across multiple concurrent projects.
  • Led 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, reducing homepage load time to under 500ms.
  • Designed and built The Key Clinic corporate portal, advanced the backend toward Lucid architecture, and integrated Stripe and Braintree payment workflows.
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)