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Syed Agha Shah Haider

Syed AghaShah Haider

Syed Agha Shah Haider
IslamabadPKT · UTC+5

I write software that other people depend on being awake at three in the morning. That is not a slogan - it is the practical difference between the work I enjoy and the work I do not. Most of what I have built is infrastructure with a customer attached: billing, sync engines, integration layers, the parts that quietly decide whether a product is a business.

I studied software engineering at NUCES–FAST and started taking contract work before I graduated. Since 2023 I have shipped more than seventy production applications for clients across the US, UK, EU and the Middle East - architecture through to deployment, and the support call afterwards. Along the way I built and launched products of my own: OrbitSKU, which keeps stock consistent across Shopify, eBay and Etsy for fourteen merchants; WhatTheFood, which turns a photograph of a plate into macros for two thousand users; InvenCell, which replaced the paper ledger in mobile-phone shops.

These days I run technical delivery at Mi6 Global - fifteen people, up to nine concurrent projects - while staying in the codebase, because a project manager who cannot read the pull request is just an expensive relay. I still take on contract engineering in parallel.

I am open to relocation and to remote roles in the EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand, the US, UAE, KSA, and other Gulf countries, and can start on seven days’ notice.

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How I work

01

Schema first, then everything else

Most production bugs I have inherited were data-model decisions made in a hurry. I would rather spend an afternoon on the schema than a quarter on migrations.

02

Own it through deployment

A feature is not finished when it merges. I have deployed, monitored and fixed at unsociable hours enough times to design with that in mind from the start.

03

Make failure visible

Silent failure is the expensive kind. Correction queues, replayable webhooks and surfaced errors cost a little time up front and save the relationship later.

04

Write the spec anyway

I write requirements documents even when nobody asks for one. It is the cheapest place to discover that two people meant different things.

Experience

  1. May 2026 -Current

    Technical Project Manager

    Mi6 Global

    Islamabad

    • Owns technical delivery for client software projects while staying in the codebase - reviewing pull requests, vetting architecture decisions and unblocking engineers on React, Next.js and Node.js work.
    • Turns business requirements into technical specifications, data models and API contracts that engineering builds directly against.
    • Runs Agile delivery for fifteen engineers, designers and QA across up to nine concurrent projects.

  2. Jun 2023 -Current

    Full-Stack Software Engineer

    Independent / Contract

    Remote - US, UK, EU, Middle East

    • Designed, built and deployed 70+ production applications end to end - architecture, schema, implementation, deployment and post-launch support.
    • Built the recurring-revenue infrastructure reused across products: Stripe subscription billing with tiered and metered plans, webhook-driven state sync and self-serve dashboards.
    • Integrated OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity and ElevenLabs into user-facing features with credit-based access control, response caching and graceful fallback between models.
    • Held a 5.0/5.0 client rating and 100% on-time delivery across every engagement, working async across five to ten hour time-zone gaps.

  3. Mar - May 2026

    Technical Recruiter

    Vyro AI (ImagineArt)

    Islamabad

    • Screened and technically assessed full-stack, mobile and AI/ML candidates, and worked with engineering leads to define role requirements and evaluation rubrics.

  4. Jun 2025 - Mar 2026

    Full-Stack Developer

    RubrixCode

    Islamabad

    • Built and maintained client-facing and internal applications in React, Next.js and Node.js, owning features from database schema through to UI.
    • Cut page load times by 40% on the primary client product through SSR/ISR adoption, query optimisation and caching.
    • Wrote unit and integration tests in Jest and end-to-end suites in Playwright and Cypress across the auth, billing and checkout paths.
    • Authored software requirement specifications from client discovery calls, then implemented and shipped them through Jira-tracked sprints.
    • Mentored five junior developers through code review and pairing, and set the project structure standard used across the team’s repositories.

  5. Nov - Dec 2024

    MERN Stack Developer

    Zysoftec

    Islamabad

    • Built a multi-model AI platform routing across OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, BlackForest Labs and Flux, with streaming chat, credit-based metering and a configurable admin panel.

  6. Jun - Aug 2022

    Flutter Developer Intern

    Solutions Hut

    Islamabad

    • Shipped cross-platform mobile screens in Flutter and Dart from design mockups, with state management, REST integration and Git-based Agile collaboration.

Stack

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript (ES2022+)
  • Python
  • Dart
  • SQL

Frontend

  • React 18 / 19
  • Next.js - App Router, SSR, ISR
  • React Native
  • Flutter
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Radix UI
  • TanStack Query
  • Redux
  • Framer Motion

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • NestJS
  • Hono
  • Django
  • REST
  • WebSockets
  • Serverless functions
  • Webhook pipelines

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • DynamoDB
  • Prisma
  • Drizzle
  • Supabase
  • Firestore

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS - EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Nginx
  • Gunicorn
  • Vercel
  • Railway

Testing

  • Jest
  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Unit, integration and E2E suites

Payments & integrations

  • Stripe
  • Shopify API
  • eBay API
  • Etsy API
  • Clerk
  • NextAuth
  • Cloudinary

AI

  • OpenAI
  • Google Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • ElevenLabs
  • TensorFlow.js
  • Multi-model routing

Education & certification

Degree

BS Software Engineering

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES–FAST) - Islamabad

2020 - 2024

Final year project: WeCare, a SaaS electronic medical records platform.

Certification

  • Cloud FoundationsAWS Academy2023
  • Cloud Security FoundationsAWS Academy2024
  • Cloud Security BuilderAWS Academy2024
  • Project Management Professional CertificateGoogle2025
  • Agile Project ManagementGoogle2025
  • Complete Flutter Development with DartUdemy-

Languages

  • EnglishProfessional proficiency - C1
  • UrduNative

Contact

Something that has towork in production?

I take on contract engineering and full-time roles. Most useful first message: what you are building, what is currently in the way, and when you need it live.