Waheed Ahmad

Senior Full Stack Engineer (React / Node)

Islamabad, PK.

About

Highly accomplished Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 5 years of experience, specializing in architecting and deploying scalable web applications across SaaS, CRM, FinTech, and Ed-Tech sectors. Expertly designs and implements robust full-stack solutions within Agile environments, consistently driving performance optimization and user-centric design. Proven leader adept at mentoring development teams and streamlining CI/CD pipelines to deliver high-quality, clean architecture.

Work

N30 Ltd

|

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Remote, N/A, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

→

Summary

Led full-stack development for a UK-based company, driving key revenue streams and enhancing user experience through scalable web applications.

Highlights

Architected and deployed a Scheduled-Giving engine, automating recurring donations and significantly streamlining the charity's primary revenue stream.

Developed embeddable donation widgets and one-click 'Donate' buttons, enabling partners to integrate with a simple script tag and dramatically shortening integration time.

Authored a comprehensive UI component library (React, Tailwind, shadcn/ui) with Storybook documentation, establishing a shared design system for two product teams.

Resolved critical high-priority bugs within 24-hour SLAs, ensuring uninterrupted service and a consistently smooth donation experience for end-users.

Zeki Expert Solutions

|

Senior Software Engineer (MERN)

Remote, N/A, Pakistan

→

Summary

Spearheaded the migration and optimization of a flagship insurance sales platform, significantly improving performance and developer efficiency.

Highlights

Led the migration of a flagship insurance sales platform to MERN stack, successfully decreasing page load time by over 60% (from 8s to 3s).

Refactored over 100 class components to hooks, reducing bundle size by 25% and boosting Lighthouse performance scores to 92.

Optimized high-traffic APIs, reducing average response latency by 35 ms to enhance system responsiveness.

Administered Bitbucket CI/CD pipelines and mentored 3 junior developers, contributing to a 30% reduction in post-release defects.

Raena Beauty

|

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Remote, N/A, Singapore

→

Summary

Developed robust full-stack solutions for an e-commerce platform, enhancing transaction reliability and optimizing storage costs.

Highlights

Integrated complex payment and logistics APIs with resilient retry logic, elevating transaction success rate to 99.5%.

Engineered and implemented secure image storage solutions on AWS S3, achieving an 18% reduction in storage costs.

Collaborated cross-functionally with the design team to develop responsive dashboards, resulting in a 15% boost in mobile engagement.

iPlex

|

Lead Full-Stack Developer

Remote, N/A, Pakistan

→

Summary

Led a development team to deliver a multilingual e-learning platform, significantly improving data retrieval and student onboarding.

Highlights

Directed a 4-person team to successfully deliver a multilingual e-learning platform MVP within 4 months, onboarding 5,000 students.

Developed a GraphQL gateway that consolidated three microservices, improving data retrieval speed by 30% for the platform.

CreativeXLab

|

Senior Software Engineer

Pakistan, N/A, Pakistan

→

Summary

Developed and delivered multiple mobile applications and admin portals while supervising a team of developers.

Highlights

Delivered over 10 mobile applications and associated admin portals using Angular, Node.js, and LoopBack, while supervising and guiding a team of 4 developers.

Collaborated with project managers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring successful project execution and alignment with strategic goals.

Education

Islamia University, Bahawalpur

Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
→
B.Sc. Computer Science

Languages

English

Skills

Full-Stack Development

React, Next.js, Node.js, .NET Core, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Styled-Components, Material UI, Ant Design, Express, NestJS.

API Development

RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, Microservices, CQRS, Swagger, OpenAPI.

Cloud Platforms

AWS (S3, ECS, Lambda), Azure (Cosmos DB, Service Bus, Functions), Serverless (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions).

Databases

SQL (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cosmos DB), Sequelize.

DevOps & CI/CD

Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Azure DevOps), Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab.

Testing

Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Jest, React-Testing-Library.

Project Management & Methodologies

Agile, Scrum, Technical Leadership, Code Reviews, Jira, Confluence, Kanban, SOLID, Design Patterns.

UI/UX

UI/UX Collaboration, Responsive Design.

State Management

Redux, Redux-Saga.