Principal Software Engineer
Complex systems.
Simple experiences.
I build dependable products — from the first idea to production at scale.
20+Engineers led
3 months → 3 daysData synchronization cycle
8 yearsBuilding products that scale
Selected client work
Engineering, measured
by its impact.
Real systems. Clear ownership.
Results that make a difference.
01 / Industrial analytics
AcwaPower Nomac
Real-time plant intelligence.
Billion-row scale.
Built real-time IoT and ETL pipelines for plant monitoring, bringing operational data into fast, reliable analytics.
70%Lower cloud storage cost
Billion+Rows analyzed
Sub-secondAnalytics queries
NestJS · Kafka · ClickHouse · PostgreSQL · Azure
My contribution +
What I owned: Built IoT ingestion and ETL pipelines, introduced ADLS and Parquet to reduce storage costs, and engineered an Azure Event Grid-triggered ADLS-to-ClickHouse migration service across desalination sites.
Delivery: Near-real-time synchronization and zero-downtime releases across a data-intensive monitoring platform.
02 / Data infrastructure
Change Data Capture
From months to days.
Redesigned a large-scale data synchronization pipeline to deliver usable data sooner.
3 months → 3 daysSynchronization cycle
99.9%Data accuracy
Change Data Capture · Data pipelines · System design
My contribution +
What I owned: Designed the Change Data Capture pipeline and improved the data synchronization process.
Delivery: Cut the synchronization cycle from three months to three days while maintaining 99.9% accuracy.
03 / Enterprise AI
Power AI
Company knowledge.
Connected and governed.
Architected a secure, self-hosted knowledge and operations platform for a construction client.
52+Tools consolidated
5Business departments
React · Python · PostgreSQL · RAG · AWS/GCP
My contribution +
What I owned: Designed multi-source ingestion from Procore, Google Workspace, contracts, and PDFs, with Google SSO, department/project RBAC, and audit logging.
Delivery: An AI-assisted form library and approval-controlled workflows keep people in control of automated actions.
04 / AI procurement
Calculum AI
Supplier negotiations,
powered by context.
Led backend architecture for streamed, multi-turn supplier negotiations with retrieval-augmented generation.
Live streamingContextual retrievalMulti-turn sessions
FastAPI · WebSockets · Qdrant · LlamaIndex · LangGraph
My contribution +
What I owned: Built retrieval over supplier and negotiation knowledge and evaluated LLaMA/Qwen, embeddings, vector databases, and model-serving frameworks.
Delivery: Defined service boundaries for retrieval, LLM orchestration, supplier context, and negotiation-state management; supported real-time WebSocket sessions.
05 / Real-time platform
ATLAS-10
Faster APIs.
Smoother workflows.
Developed complex REST APIs and real-time features with performance built into the data layer.
Express.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Redis · Next.js
My contribution +
What I owned: Combined Redis caching with database query optimization and built real-time WebSocket workflows.
Delivery: Added structured production logging with Winston to support troubleshooting and operations.
06 / Cloud platform
UBU
Infrastructure built
for growth.
Built scalable cloud infrastructure, secure access controls, and AI/ML endpoint integrations.
20%Increase in user retention
Express.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Next.js · AWS
My contribution +
What I owned: Implemented EC2/RDS/S3 infrastructure with load balancing and autoscaling, alongside JWT-based RBAC.
Delivery: AI/ML endpoint integrations contributed to a 20% increase in user retention.
Technical toolkit
Skills that connect
the whole system.
01
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
02
Backend & APIs
- Node.js
- Express.js
- NestJS
- GraphQL
- REST
- WebSockets
03
Data & messaging
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- ClickHouse
- Redis
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- GCP Pub/Sub
- BullMQ
04
Cloud & delivery
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- CircleCI
05
AI engineering
- Python
- FastAPI
- RAG
- LlamaIndex
- LangChain / LangGraph
- Qdrant
- LLaMA
- Qwen
- Ollama
06
Leadership
- System design
- Technical strategy
- Client discovery
- Estimation
- Mentoring
- Code review
- Release management
The engineer behind the work
Hands-on builder.
Accountable leader.
I’m Ghulam, a full-stack engineer and technical leader based in Lahore. I work with international teams to turn complex business requirements into reliable software.
My work spans AI, IoT, analytics, and enterprise platforms — from client discovery and system design to code reviews, deployments, and production operations.
Download my resume ↓Dec 2023 — Present
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