I design, build and scale backend systems and AI platforms that hold up in production. 7+ years across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and LLM integration, from founding-engineer 0→1 builds to platforms processing millions of transactions.

What I bring to a senior team

• 🏗️ Distributed Systems & Architecture: Event-driven microservices, Kafka, gRPC, queues and workers, designed for scale and failure
• ☁️ Cloud & Platform Engineering: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD, from first deploy to production operations
• 🤖 Applied AI & LLM Engineering: RAG pipelines, LLM workflow automation, agents and AI task infrastructure (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, LangChain)
• 🧑‍✈️ Technical Leadership: Owning architecture end to end, leading platform teams and turning product goals into shippable systems

I think like a founder and build like an engineer.

• Now: Scaling document processing infrastructure handling 1M+ monthly transactions via distributed microservices on AWS
• AI platform: Led backend and AI platform engineering, building a schema-driven code generation engine that automated full-stack application delivery
• Founding engineer: Founded and shipped multiple products as a solo architect, owning everything from system design to production

• ⚖️ legal-ai: Chat with your case documents. Every answer cites the source document and page, with case-level access control and a framework-free RAG pipeline · FastAPI · Celery · Qdrant · React
• 🖥️ clidesk: Terminal file explorer with an icon grid, git status, command runner and 6 themes. brew install itsahmadawais/tap/clidesk · Go
• 🔐 typed-env-safe : Zero-dependency, TypeScript-first environment variable validation · TypeScript
• ⚡ ai-taskflow: Distributed task-processing framework for AI workloads with plugin tasks and LangChain integration · FastAPI · Redis · RQ
• 🔌 grpc-inventory-hub: gRPC microservices monorepo built with clean architecture · Python · gRPC
• 📨 event-driven-kafka-python: Event-driven architecture playground with real-world messaging patterns · Kafka
• 🐳 docker-kubernetes-playbook: Hands-on Docker, Kubernetes and Helm playbook with production best practices · Docker · K8s
• 📄 chat-with-pdf-langchain: RAG pipeline to chat with any PDF using embeddings and vector search · LangChain.js · OpenAI
• 🎬 Vida: I got fed up with ad-filled Android video players, so I built a free, offline, ad-free one · Flutter
• 🇵🇰 pk-validators-react: React hooks and masked inputs for Pakistani CNIC, phone and passport validation. Demo ↗ · React
• ✅ airtasker: Local-storage task manager with drag and drop, sub-tasks, labels and dark mode. Demo ↗ · React 19

Languages

Backend & Messaging

AI & LLM

Cloud & Infrastructure

Databases

Frontend & Mobile

🤝 Hiring for a Senior or Lead Backend / AI role?

I'm open to roles where I can own architecture, scale backend platforms and bring AI into production.
Let's talk.