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Maria Arif

@mariaarif

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I build scalable .NET microservices and cloud platforms for fintech and enterprise.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build production-grade .NET and cloud systems, lead cross-functional engineering teams, and work directly with international stakeholders on complex fintech or enterprise products.

I've built production banking, tax automation, leasing, and AI platforms with .NET, AWS, and microservices. At Hash Maker Solutions, I led development of PayAval DALE!, a banking platform serving thousands of active users in Latin America.

At Tkxel, I led a four-person squad delivering a US tax-automation platform and acted as the technical liaison across eight-plus release cycles. I also build full-stack systems with ASP.NET Core, Angular, SQL Server, AWS, secure authentication, CI/CD, and zero-downtime deployments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Independent .NET Developer

Current

Self-Employed

Jan 2026 - Present (8 months)

Designed and built a production-grade Class Assignment Assessment API in .NET 10 using Clean Architecture, MediatR/CQRS, and event-driven messaging with JWT authentication, Redis caching, and EF Core with SQL Server.

MediatR CQRS Fluent Validation Clean Architecture RabbitMQ Mass Transit JWT Redis EF Core

Career Break

Technical Development

Feb 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 10 months)

Deepened expertise in .NET 8 and 10, minimal APIs, and source generators while maintaining algorithmic problem-solving practice.

.NET 8+Minimal APIs Algorithms

Senior Software Developer

Tkxel

May 2022 - Feb 2024 (1 year 9 months)

Led a 4-person engineering squad delivering Adams Brown, a US-based tax-automation platform, and served as primary technical liaison across 8+ release cycles. Improved auth/authorisation and XSS-prevention for Complete Discovery Source, developed Angular front-end features for Real Time Systems, and built full-stack modules for Opus.

.NET Core MVC REST APIs Angular Bootstrap CI CD XSS

Senior Software Developer

Hash Maker Solutions

Mar 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Led development of PayAval DALE!, a production banking platform serving thousands of active users in Latin America, on microservices architecture using .NET Core, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and Angular. Architected full AWS stack and mentored 6 junior engineers.

.NET Core Angular Identity Server AWS EF Core OAuth OIDC Microservices API Gateway Lambda S3 DynamoDB Code First Agile

Software Developer

Netsol Technologies Ltd.

Aug 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 7 months)

Developed enterprise leasing platform capabilities supporting global automotive and financial organizations processing millions of transactions. Authored complex SQL Server procedures, improved query performance, and migrated DB data into a compliance-focused reporting solution.

.NET SQL Server MVC Stored Procedures Query Optimization Reporting