Bilal Ashraf
@bilalashraf
Fractional CTO at AlphaSquad building crypto platforms and AI systems designed to withstand production traffic.
PakistanWhat I'm looking for
At AlphaSquad, I lead architecture and delivery for crypto platforms, including smart contracts, wallet integrations, token systems, and real-time infrastructure. I also lead AI-driven reliability initiatives and automate incident response.
I bring the same production focus to AI that I’ve applied to reliability and DevOps: deciding where AI belongs and planning for what happens when it fails. I’m currently building Croft, a fully offline local AI agent, and StandRep, a conflict-intelligence platform with citation-traceable confidence scoring.
Earlier, I worked on a HIPAA-compliant healthcare platform serving 6M+ patients and a multi-region e-commerce platform that had zero overselling incidents during flash-sale traffic. At Telenor, I developed modular mobile and web application architectures, and at Kenja K.K. I implemented collaboration and document-sharing components for Rooms.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
I lead architecture and delivery for crypto platforms: smart contracts, wallet integrations, token systems, real-time infrastructure, and CI/CD that actually earns its keep.
Led AI-driven reliability initiatives and automated incident response.
Reduced MTTR through DevOps pipelines and agentic workflows.
Scaled SaaS uptime and resilience across distributed teams.
Published technical thought leadership to influence engineering practices globally.
• Led learning, developing, and maintaining the software domain while ensuring requirements delivered as capabilities.
• Facilitated and drive customers' mission requirements to team, ensuring development teams operate ithin scope.
• Defined and maintain all aspects of development from approved technology and workflow.
• Ensured software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability,
As Head of Engineering, I was responsible for monitoring and expanding Tahleel's microservice architecture. In addition to working on active development, I review code PRs and improve and implement coding standards.
We are actively experimenting with Go-based services, which will enable us to process large volumes of data in less time and with fewer resources, and optimise overall performance. My
As the Senior Software Architect at Qiraad, I was responsible for scaling the base platform and implementing the Stock based application using a range of technologies including Node.js, Go, AWS Lambda, EC2, load balancer, and API Gateway. I also built microservices that communicated using HTTP and messaging formats such as gRPC. In this role, I had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects,
Responsible for development of Mobile / Web products from three different Business Units. I developed and designed modular, scalable and robust application architectures using reactjs and nodejs and native mobile frameworks that enabled vendors to maintain common source code for each new client. The architecture made the application core code independent of remote data sources (servers), user inte
Responsible for development of Mobile / Web products from three different Business Units.
Nordicomm Technologies is an IT services company based in Finland. I was heading the office in Islamabad as partner and technical lead for client projects and internal products. Our major products included QforQuran and Babywink. QforQuran was a digital platform for building the habit of reading the Quran and provided a simple yet innovative method to incorporate reading habits. BabyWink is an app
Crossover is a platform where the world's Top 1% of talent is found (www.crossover.com) . Got in the pool of some extra ordinary professionals.During my time at crossover i was working with different teams and projects. Mostly I worked in the Crossover Engineering team where we started building their iOS apps from prototyping on www.justinmind.com to the development of fully functional products, w
Kenja.com is japan based enterprise solution company providing B2B collaboration platform known as Rooms, recently they have started working in the BlockChain domain and have implemented a strong backend to provide seamless, integrated and cloud based collaboration platform. I was fortunate enough to work on Rooms and implement major collaboration components such as meeting components, which at th
Concentrating on GUI design for a product called TeleTaleem which used Flash Media Server and Flash front end to broadcast audio and video to remote locations for teaching purposes. This simple tool was used broadcast live video to remote area of Pakistan which emulated a class room environment. I was privileged to work on both front end and server end of TeleTaleem using Red5 and Flash Media Ser
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Allama Iqbal Open University
Bachelor of Science, Computational Science
GPA: 3.1
Rawalpindi
Programming, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES
Studies mostly.
Enterprise Agile: Changing Your Culture
Dec 2019
Communicating with Confidence
Dec 2019
Bill George on Self Awareness, Authenticity, and Leadership
Dec 2019
Rawalpindi Cantt
Secondry Education, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
1999 - 2000
Studies mostly.
Allama Iqbal Open University
BSCS, Computer Science
2005 - 2010
Programming
lynda.com
Amazon Web Services Essential Training
May 2015
Body Language for Leaders
Dec 2019
Xcode Server: Continuous Integration for iOS Developers
Oct 2019
CrossKnowledge
Telenor Code of Conduct 2019
Sep 2019
Scrum: The Basics
Oct 2019
JavaScript: Patterns
Nov 2019
Creating Your Personal Brand
Nov 2019
Scrum: Advanced
Oct 2019
DevSecOps: Building a Secure Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Oct 2019
Learning Data Analytics
Nov 2019
Shane Snow on Storytelling
Dec 2019
DevOps Foundations
Nov 2019
Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques
Nov 2019
Riphah International University
Master of Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
2019 - 2021
GPA: 3.2
Coursera
Foundations of Project Management
May 2021
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
PakistanAuthorized to work in
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