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Bakhtawar Maqsood

@bakhtawarmaqsood

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Senior Full Stack Engineer specializing in Python, scalable web apps, and AI/LLM integrations.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I am seeking senior full-stack or AI-integrated roles where I can build scalable systems, lead technical work, mentor engineers, and ship ML-enabled features in a collaborative, product-focused team.

I am a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with 7+ years building scalable web and AI-powered applications using Python and modern front-end frameworks. I design and deliver production-ready systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and clear APIs.

My experience spans Django, Flask, FastAPI, and React, along with deep work in deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Hugging Face. I have built RAG pipelines and integrated LLMs to support smart search, summarization, and conversational interfaces.

I have driven performance improvements across the stack — from PostgreSQL indexing and ORM tuning to responsive SPAs and reusable UI libraries — and implemented CI/CD and containerized AWS deployments. I also mentor engineers and promote testing, modular architectures, and best DevOps practices.

I am motivated by solving complex full-stack and ML-integration problems, shipping maintainable products, and helping teams scale through better tooling, documentation, and engineering standards.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Full Stack Engineer

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Stealth Startup

Oct 2023 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Developed Django/Flask/FastAPI backends and React frontends, integrated LLMs and RAG pipelines to enable smart search, summarization and AI chat, and improved PostgreSQL query latency by 40% through indexing and ORM tuning.

Django fastAPI React PostgreSQL Faiss Pinecone Hugging Face

Senior Software Engineer

Futuristic Labs

Jul 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 2 months)

Built scalable React/Next.js SPAs and reusable UI libraries, integrated Python backends with Socket.IO for real-time features, and improved front-end performance by 30% while reducing bugs via 85% test coverage.

React Next.js Socket.IO Django Flask Jest Cypress Redux

Software Engineer

Altittudetechs

Aug 2018 - Jun 2021 (2 years 10 months)

Designed end-to-end Python web applications and microservices using Django, Celery and Kafka, optimized databases to reduce latency by 30% and managed AWS infrastructure to cut costs by 20%.