Senior engineer based in Lahore, Pakistan. I've spent 9+ years on backend systems, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, and more recently LLM agent systems in production. Backend is my strongest area. What I enjoy most is owning systems end to end and going deeper into how things work underneath.
I write about systems internals at internalswithzee.com.
- Olostep. I own the platform behind a web search, scraping and crawling API. It runs 4M+ jobs a day on up to 600 nodes, on Kubernetes across GCP, AWS and bare metal. My work there covers platform architecture, cloud migrations, autoscaling and cost. I brought compute cost down about 30% and the database bill by about two thirds, and built a Rust service that handles 700k requests a minute on a single 4 vCPU node.
- Ampwise. I build LLM agent systems that run in production.
- Dev Weekends. A free software engineering community I founded and run.
Dev Weekends started in Pakistan and is now international, with fellows from 30+ countries. It's free and run by volunteers with no outside funding. We have the most open source program selections of any community in Pakistan. In 2026, 9 of our fellows were selected for Google Summer of Code, up from 2 in 2025, and our members have earned over $2.5M through remote jobs, freelancing and open source stipends.
| Members | Countries | Universities | Engineers trained | GSoC 2025 and 2026 | Remote placements | Local placements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30k+ | 30+ | 222 | 1,000+ | 11 | 100+ | 300+ |
Our fellowship roadmaps and community projects are at github.com/devweekends.
| Where | What I did |
|---|---|
| United Nations | Senior Engineer. Microservices, CI/CD and infra automation |
| ROUTD | Lead engineer on a logistics SaaS |
| Hemma | Built a product from zero at an early stage startup |
| Systems Limited | Enterprise software for a Fortune 500 client |
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| Languages | C#, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, SQL |
| Backend | .NET Core, ASP.NET, Node.js, NestJS, FastAPI, REST APIs, microservices |
| Data and messaging | PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Prisma |
| Distributed systems | Event-driven systems, job queues, outbox pattern, exactly-once consumers, circuit breakers, retries with backoff |
| Cloud | AWS, GCP, Azure, bare metal |
| Infra | Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Linux, CI/CD |
| AI | LangChain, LangGraph, LLM agents |
| Frontend and mobile | React, Next.js, React Native |
Distributed systems, Linux internals, microVMs, Rust and Go.
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