Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Senior Full-Stack Engineer with a backend specialization in large-scale, distributed systems

I design and ship reliable large-scale, distributed systems across frontend and backend, with primary depth in APIs and production reliability for healthcare and fintech payment workflows.

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Experience

Progressively growing from associate engineer to senior engineer at CureMD, with a consistent focus on backend-heavy full-stack delivery for healthcare and payments.

Jul 2025 – Present

Senior Software Engineer · CureMD

Own architecture and delivery for critical payment and billing services used by enterprise healthcare clients.

  • Led payment platform architecture across microservices, reducing reconciliation errors by 30% and processing time by 20% through API redesign and asynchronous messaging.
  • Implemented centralized observability with ELK across distributed services, cutting incident triage and response time by 40%.
  • Introduced Redis caching for high-traffic payment and billing APIs, improving response latency and throughput under production load.
  • Worked on a collection-agency project to streamline tracking of payments moved to agencies and how much was recovered.
Aug 2023 – Jul 2025

Software Engineer · CureMD

Delivered patient payment products and data migration workflows in close collaboration with product, QA, and operations teams.

  • Delivered ADPH Self Pay with a real-time patient payment dashboard and migrated 1M+ records with zero data loss.
  • Translated billing and compliance requirements into implementation plans, milestones, and production-ready releases.
  • Drove multi-language, multi-timezone billing localization and CI/CD release quality through Azure DevOps, improving international client satisfaction by 40% while sustaining a 90% SLA resolution rate.
  • Contributed to team standards for API design, code reviews, test quality, and operational readiness.
Aug 2022 – Jul 2023

Associate Software Engineer · CureMD

Built core capabilities for batch processing and payment reconciliation while strengthening system reliability and release safety.

  • Engineered batch payment automation and optimized SQL procedures/APIs, reducing manual reconciliation effort by 50% and improving runtime performance.
  • Built background processing services and retry workflows for settlement, reconciliation, and scheduled payment jobs.
  • Contributed to CI/CD quality gates and rollback checklists in Azure DevOps to lower release risk for payment services.

Work

2023–Present Live

TrueDoc Healthcare Platform

End-to-end healthcare platform connecting patients and doctors across web and mobile with secure consultations and payment flows.

  • Built and scaled backend APIs for appointments, consultations, authentication, and payment orchestration in a microservices architecture.
  • Integrated Agora SDK for real-time video and JazzCash/Easypaisa for payment workflows with secure transaction handling.
  • Optimized MySQL procedures and Redis caching to keep API performance under 200ms in key user journeys.

Node.js · TypeScript · MySQL · Redis · RabbitMQ · Docker · ELK Stack

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2024

Payment Processing System

Enterprise payment platform modernization for faster, safer, and more reliable transaction processing at scale.

  • Redesigned service boundaries and asynchronous workflows to reduce processing errors by 30% and improve speed by 20%.
  • Implemented robust error handling and operational visibility for faster issue detection and recovery.
  • Strengthened deployment confidence through CI/CD improvements and production validation checks.

.NET Core · SQL Server · Azure DevOps · Angular

2023

ADPH Self Pay Dashboard

Real-time payment tracking solution built for hospital finance operations with high-volume data migration and validation.

  • Delivered real-time visibility into patient payments, balances, and transaction lifecycle states.
  • Migrated over 1M patient records with ETL automation and strict data validation pipelines.
  • Partnered with stakeholders to ensure compliance requirements were met before launch.

.NET Core · SQL Server · Angular

Skills

Backend Development

Node.js, .NET Core, TypeScript, C#, Python. Building RESTful and GraphQL APIs, designing microservices, and implementing event-driven services with RabbitMQ.

Frontend & Mobile

Angular, React, and Flutter. Comfortable delivering full-stack products, with backend architecture and reliability as my strongest area.

Databases

MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis. Experience with schema design, query optimization, and caching strategies for low-latency APIs.

DevOps & Delivery

Docker, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, ELK Stack, DigitalOcean. Focused on predictable releases, observability, and production stability.

Contact

I'm open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, or just talking about tech.