— Experience

Where I've worked,
what I've shipped.

Six years and counting — from junior developer to senior engineer, across products used by teams worldwide. A summary of roles, education, recognition, and the work behind it.

Senior Software Engineer · 6 years experience · Open to new roles

  • Current role Senior Software Engineer
  • Location Remote / Worldwide
  • Focus Web · Cloud · AI
  • Available for Full-time & contract
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01 — Career

Roles & impact.

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    2023 — Present

    Aurora Labs Full-time

    Remote · UTC+5

    Leading product development across web platforms — mentoring engineers, shipping high-impact features, and improving system performance.

    • Cut page load time by 45% through code-splitting and image optimization
    • Architected a design system used across 6 internal applications
    • Drove adoption of TypeScript and modern testing practices
    • Mentored 8 engineers; ran weekly architecture reviews
    ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLAWS

  2. Software Engineer

    2021 — 2023

    Northwind Full-time

    Hybrid · Berlin

    Built scalable web applications and reusable component libraries used across the organization.

    • Shipped 30+ production features end-to-end
    • Improved API throughput by 3× via caching and query optimization
    • Led migration from monolith to a service-oriented architecture
    ReactNode.jsGraphQLDockerRedis

  3. Frontend Engineer (Contract)

    2020 — 2021

    Lumenly Contract

    Remote

    Worked alongside the founding team to build the V1 of a SaaS platform for design teams.

    • Built the design canvas with React + Canvas API
    • Set up CI/CD, automated testing, and deploy previews
    ReactCanvas APIVercel

  4. Junior Developer

    2019 — 2020

    Foundry & Co Full-time

    On-site · Karachi

    Started my journey crafting websites and learning the craft of building reliable software at a small agency.

    • Delivered 10+ client websites with WordPress, Vue, and plain HTML/CSS/JS
    • First production deploys, first code reviews, first taste of design systems
    VueHTML/CSS/JSWordPress
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02 — Impact

Numbers that matter.

  • $2M+

    Revenue influenced

    Through features, optimizations, and conversion-focused redesigns shipped across client products.

  • 12

    Teams shaped

    Design systems, engineering practices, and codebases that outlived my tenure on each team.

  • 45%

    Avg. perf gain

    Median reduction in page-load time across products I've performance-audited and rewritten.

  • 99.9%

    Uptime maintained

    Across production services I've designed, deployed, or actively monitored over the past 4 years.

03 — Education

Credentials & certifications.

2018 — 2022

B.Sc. in Computer Science

National University of Technology

Graduated with honors. Focus on software engineering, distributed systems, and human-computer interaction.

2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Designing resilient, cost-optimized cloud architectures.

2024

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

Agile project delivery and team facilitation.

2024

Frontend Masters — Algorithms

Frontend Masters

Deep dive into algorithms & data structures, taught by ThePrimeagen.

2025

Google Cloud — Professional ML

Google Cloud

Designing & deploying ML solutions on GCP at production scale.

2025

Accessibility Specialist (CPACC)

IAAP

Core competencies in digital accessibility & inclusive design.

04 — Talks & writing

On stage & on paper.

  • 2025

    Designing AI-first interfaces

    Talk at FrontierConf — UI patterns for products with non-deterministic outputs. 600+ attendees.

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  • 2024

    Smashing Magazine — guest article

    "Quiet UI: designing interfaces that respect attention." Featured on the homepage for two weeks.

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  • 2024

    The Changelog — podcast

    Guest episode on shipping accessible features in fast-moving startups.

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  • 2023

    Internal tech talk — Design tokens at scale

    Hosted a workshop for 40 engineers on adopting design tokens in a multi-product codebase.

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  • 2023

    Personal blog — series on systems thinking

    Six-part series on architecting frontend codebases for change. ~30k reads.

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05 — Awards

Recognition along the way.

  • 2025

    Engineer of the Year

    Aurora Labs — for sustained impact across the platform team and mentoring program.

  • 2024

    Awwwards — Site of the Day

    Personal portfolio recognized for typography, motion, and craft.

  • 2023

    Hackathon — 1st place

    Northwind annual hackathon — built a realtime collab plugin in 36 hours, now in production.

  • 2022

    Open-source contribution highlighted

    Featured in React Status newsletter (issue #312) for a popular utility library.

06 — Recommendations

From people I've worked with.

"Shafqat is the rare engineer who cares about both the code and the user. He shipped a feature in two weeks that our last team couldn't deliver in three months."
Sarah Chen VP Engineering, Northwind — direct manager (2021–2023)
"Working with Shafqat felt like having a senior product designer and a senior engineer in the same person. Our app finally feels coherent."
Marcus Reyes Founder, Lumenly — client (2020–2021)
"Calm, clear communication. Always one step ahead. The kind of person you want owning critical paths in your product."
Aiko Tanaka CTO, Riverbend Labs — collaborator (2024)
"He raised the bar for the whole team. Code review with Shafqat is a masterclass — and somehow it never felt like one."
David Park Staff Engineer, Aurora Labs — peer (2023–present)
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