Arif Iqbal

I’m a Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years delivering production systems across Node.js/NestJS and PHP/Laravel ecosystems. I bring a rare dual-stack profile—building NestJS microservices and BullMQ async pipelines with PostgreSQL for high-throughput workloads, while using Laravel to deliver structured, enterprise-grade APIs.

I’ve led teams of 5+ and owned multi-tenant SaaS architectures end-to-end, shipping solutions across e-commerce, logistics, B2B platforms, and real-time bidding. In distributed remote environments (EU/US time zones), I focus on reliability, observability, and repeatable delivery—so the systems stay fast and maintainable as usage scales.

Most recently, I owned a multi-channel B2C commerce & subscription platform using NestJS APIs, PostgreSQL schemas, and a React frontend. I improved order processing by 30–40% using BullMQ async queues, Redis caching, and PostgreSQL query optimization, and I integrated Stripe end-to-end (subscriptions, lifecycle webhooks, and frontend UI).

As a team lead, I architected multi-tenant isolation across database, API, and frontend layers, and built event-driven workflows with BullMQ + Redis using idempotency, retry/backoff, and Dead Letter Queue recovery. I also strengthened search performance with Meilisearch/Algolia (cutting responses from 5s to under 1s) and designed Node.js microservices with PostgreSQL to reduce downtime by 35% through scaling and engineering rigor.