Ahsan Iftikhar

I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years building and shipping production fintech, AI, and mobile products. I build and own React web platforms and a React Native app backed by AI automation—LLM-driven market-sentiment pipelines and conversational Slack/Telegram bots.

At Lumida Wealth, I spearhead a React Native app (in beta with 1,000+ active users), owning iOS and Android builds, push notifications, and deep linking. I resolved a critical Android blocker by moving API calls, store dispatches, and heavy computation to separate threads with React Native Worklets, improving UI smoothness by ~30%.

I’ve built AI pipelines that ingest ~300 curated stock-market X (Twitter) accounts (~1,000 posts/day), applying LLM sentiment scoring via custom prompts to feed the CIO research workflow. I also manage Google Cloud VMs end-to-end—deployments, backend operations, Nginx configuration, and subdomain setup—along with CI/CD for frontend and backend builds and deployments.

My work is hands-on end-to-end: I develop the backend in Flask with Firestore and integrate OpenAI LLMs across modules, while building React modules for Lumida AI spanning factors, news, transcripts, bull/bear cases, charting, thematic analysis, portfolio management, and backtesting. I care about performance and engineering quality—setting front-end standards, leading reviews, and migrating legacy React class components to modern functional components with hooks (cutting unnecessary re-renders by ~40%).