Experience
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Smart Web Agency, based in Turin, Italy. Authorised to work in Italy, no sponsorship needed. I’ve been building production web apps for more than six years.
Where I’ve worked
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2023 – Now
Smart Web Agency
United Kingdom. Full-time, remote
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer May 2024 – Present Promoted after 14 months
- Software Engineer Mar 2023 – Apr 2024
- Work embedded with client teams to scope, architect and deliver integrations across e-commerce, payments, bookings and PIM platforms.
- Lead agentic AI and LLM features in client apps with the Claude and OpenRouter APIs and Python/FastAPI services, including an AI resume screening pipeline I built in 18 hours.
- Own technical discovery and solution architecture in pre-sales, and train the team on AI tooling and delivery.
- Built a GitLab CI/CD pipeline with zero-downtime releases, cutting staging-to-production deploys from 25 minutes to 1m 18s.
Laravel
Python
FastAPI- Claude API
- OpenRouter
LangChain- LangGraph
Stripe
Docker- GitLab CI/CD
Redis
MySQL
React
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2022 – 2024
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy
MSc in Computer ScienceJan 2022 – May 2024
- Thesis: Benchmark Development for LLM-Based Visualizations and Evaluation.
- Co-authored “Toward a Structured Theoretical Framework for the Evaluation of Generative AI-based Visualizations”, published at EuroVA 2024, part of EuroVis.
- Human-computer interaction
- OpenCV
- LLM benchmarking
- Cloud computing
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2021 – 2024
Upwork
Remote, clients worldwide
Freelance Full-Stack DeveloperOct 2021 – Jun 2024
37s to 4s first load of Viasox’s order page- Delivered 13 client projects: custom CRMs, HRMS, order management tools and integrations with Amazon’s seller APIs, deployed on AWS.
- Sped up Viasox’s Laravel order processing tool: loading orders over AJAX cut the first page load from 37s to 4s, and indexes plus cached images and SKUs cut each next order from 15–18s to 1.8s.
- Partitioned 2018–2021 orders out of the working set, with an automated Laravel script, since the team only needed the last six months.
- Laravel
- Laravel Horizon
- MySQL
- Firebase
- Redis
JavaScript- React
- REST APIs
Bootstrap
AWS
Work from this role
I am hiring him for multiple jobs and I would highly recommend him to anyone that needs a real developer.
5.0 Adrevex, Laravel Programmer Needed for Advertising Marketplace He was also very patient with me and helped me to deploy the project on my end which wasn't in the original job description so I appreciate how he went above and beyond.
5.0 Red Dot Visuals, Agency Portfolio Website Development -
2020 – 2021
Gaditek, for Squatwolf
Pakistan, on-site
Software EngineerAug 2020 – Sep 2021
8m 32s to 45s average label creation, 91% faster
- Built an internal bulk shipping-label tool for Squatwolf.
- Integrated five carriers into order processing: Aramex, DHL, EasyPost, EliteCourier and FedEx.
- Built the order-processing tool on Laravel, MySQL, Redis, Firebase and AWS.
- Laravel
- JavaScript
- MySQL
- Redis
- Firebase
- AWS
Work from this role
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2020
Landtrack.pk
Pakistan, on-site
Full Stack DeveloperMay 2020 – Jul 2020
Laravel 5.7 to Laravel 7 framework upgrade
- Migrated the codebase from Laravel 5.7 to Laravel 7 and moved raw SQL to Eloquent.
- Built Python crawlers that collected listings from 11 real-estate sites.
- Laravel
PHP- Python
- JavaScript
- MySQL
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2016 – 2019
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
Pakistan
BSc in Computer ScienceSep 2016 – Nov 2019
- Merit scholarship for one year.
- PHP
- C/C++
- C#
- MySQL
- OOP
- RDBMS
- Theory of automata
Freelance work
The freelancer demonstrated strong technical competence, good problem-solving skills, and a solid understanding of marketplace architecture and scalability considerations.