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Idrees Jawad

@idreesjawad

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Senior full-stack engineer building production microservices and ML-powered fraud detection at massive scale.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can own end-to-end delivery—designing scalable microservices, shipping reliable product features, and integrating AI/LLM capabilities—while balancing speed with quality and strong engineering practices.

I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 8 years building production full-stack systems—owning the whole stack from Python/Django backends to React/TypeScript frontends, cloud deployments, and AI-integrated features using LLMs and prompt engineering. I’ve shipped microservices that handle high-throughput workloads, including real-time fraud detection at 2M+ transactions/day.

I thrive in teams where shipping fast and doing it right aren’t treated as opposites. Most recently, I architected scalable services and improved performance (p99 latency under 200ms), rebuilt ML pipelines to raise accuracy by 22%, and automated AWS deployments with CI/CD to cut release cycles from 2 hours to 12 minutes—while mentoring engineers and continuously monitoring, optimizing, and responding to incidents.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Full Stack Developer

Current

Lama Labs

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 6 months)

Architected and built scalable Ruby on Rails microservices and backend services for an enterprise analytics platform. Owned production services end-to-end, rebuilding ML pipelines and automating AWS deployments with CI/CD to reduce release cycles.

Ruby on Rails Microservices Python TensorFlow Apache Spark AWS AWS Lambda Amazon EC2 Amazon S3 CI CD Async Services Monitoring Incident Response Performance Optimization

Full Stack Developer

Lighthouse Labs

Mar 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 9 months)

Shipped full-stack features in a React.js/Node.js microservices environment serving 300K+ daily active users with high reliability. Rebuilt ETL pipelines for near-real-time analytics, optimized PostgreSQL reporting queries, and built a PyTorch recommendation engine integrated via REST APIs.

React Microservices PostgreSQL Django PyTorch ETL REST APIs A B Testing SQL Indexing Query Optimization

Software Engineer

TechNova Solutions

Jun 2017 - Feb 2021 (3 years 8 months)

Owned Django REST API endpoints serving enterprise clients with 99.9% uptime over four years and redesigned multi-tenant PostgreSQL architecture to improve performance. Worked across backend/frontend integration with React, adding optimizations like code splitting and caching, and improving resilience via circuit-breaker patterns and structured logging.

Python Django React PostgreSQL REST APIs Circuit Breakers

Associate Software Engineer

Digitcom Canada Inc.

Jan 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 4 months)

Built NLP text-processing pipelines handling 500K+ records daily and automated modernization of a legacy monolith into Docker services. Refactored backend REST APIs and integrated third-party telecom APIs for real-time data processing across enterprise environments.

Python Docker Kubernetes NLP REST APIs Backend API Refactoring