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Faizan Ahmed

@faizanahmed7

Backend & Platform Engineer building high-scale marketplace infrastructure; founding engineer focused on reliability and AI-driven delivery.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I’m actively seeking senior remote backend roles where I can own platform reliability and high-scale distributed systems—shipping features, improving incident response, and using automation/agentic workflows to raise engineering throughput and quality.

I’m a backend and platform engineer with 3+ years building distributed systems and high-scale marketplace infrastructure. I’m currently a founding engineer at Dubizzle Labs, owning backend reliability and feature development across a multi-tenant classified platform serving 54M+ monthly sessions and 18M+ monthly active users across South Asia and MENA.

I’ve driven measurable reliability wins—cutting messaging pipeline latency by 40% and reducing authentication-related incidents by 80%. I also built an AI-powered, agentic SDLC workflow that automates ticket analysis, implementation planning, code generation, PR creation, and peer review, and I’ve supported incident response and production health monitoring across microservices.

Before this, I built core CRM workflow capabilities from greenfield, created a custom MFA security system that responded to active attack attempts, and re-architected payment processing for modular growth. I’m hands-on with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, WebSockets, and observability tooling—and I’m actively seeking senior remote backend roles.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer, Classified Platforms

Current

Dubizzle Labs

Nov 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Founding backend engineer for the newly formed platform ownership team handling OLX Pakistan, Zameen.com, and Dubizzle MENA tenants, with responsibility for reliability and feature delivery across multi-tenant distributed microservices. Improved messaging pipeline latency by 40%, reduced recurring infrastructure alerts by 20%, mitigated large-scale DDoS/credential-stuffing attacks, and built an ag

Associate Software Engineer

Dubizzle Labs

Jan 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year 9 months)

Built and owned the PropForce CRM Workflow module from scratch, including configurable stage transitions, task assignment, and progress tracking used across Zameen.com’s CRM organization. Developed a custom MFA security system that reduced authentication-related incidents by 80%, re-architected the payment processing pipeline for modular integrations, and created Lens, a multi-tenant real-time dat

Security Engineering Incident Reduction AWS CI CD Prometheus New Relic Sentry

Freelance Software Engineer

Upwork / PeoplePerHour

Jan 2019 - Oct 2023 (4 years 9 months)

Delivered REST APIs, database architecture, and automated deployment pipelines for 15+ SME clients across the UK, US, and Gulf markets. Performed performance engineering and caching optimizations to reduce page load times by up to 50% for multiple client applications.

REST APIs API Development Database Architecture Performance Engineering Caching Technical Writer

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

COMSATS University Islamabad (Lahore Campus)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science

2019 - 2023

B.S. in Computer Science at COMSATS University Islamabad (Lahore Campus), covering coursework in Data Structures and Algorithms, databases, operating systems, AI/ML, and computer vision. Final-year project: a computer vision-based workplace monitoring system built with Python.