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Mohammad Asad

@muhammadasad95

Principal Engineer: IAM (Keycloak, OAuth2/OIDC, SAML) + Node.js/TypeScript backends. Builds AI agents. Remote from Pakistan.

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What I'm looking for

A hands-on senior, staff or tech-lead role in identity (IAM, OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, Keycloak) or backend engineering (Node.js/TypeScript). Fully remote from Pakistan, with full overlap on US or EU hours. I want to own architecture and still write code, on a team that ships to production and uses AI tools well.

Principal software engineer with 7+ years building production backends in Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL, and 3+ years owning an enterprise identity platform.

At Zones I designed and run Access Studio, a Keycloak-based IAM platform fronting 15 enterprise applications: SSO and MFA over OAuth2/OIDC and SAML, federation with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID and Auth0, SCIM provisioning, RBAC/ABAC, privileged access and audit. I own the architecture, APIs, incidents and code review, and I've led 20+ engineers.

Before that, at Airlift, I built Node.js and PostgreSQL microservices on AWS for a 17,000-rides/day transit operation.

I work AI-first with Claude Code and Copilot. I've built a real-time voice and video AI agent (RAG, tool calling) and a multi-agent job-application system in Python.

Looking for hands-on senior, staff or tech-lead roles in identity or backend engineering. Remote, with full US or EU overlap.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Principal Engineer

Current

Zones LLC

Aug 2022 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Designed and own Access Studio, a multi-tenant identity platform on Keycloak (realm per tenant) fronting 15 apps across 3 tenants. Built the NestJS/TypeScript backend on PostgreSQL, federation with Okta, Entra ID and Auth0 (SAML, OIDC, SCIM), and just-in-time admin access with Azure Key Vault. Shipped on Kubernetes with Helm and Terraform. Line-managed 20+ engineers.

Software Engineer (Backend)

Airlift

Jul 2019 - Jun 2022 (2 years 11 months)

Built Node.js and PostgreSQL microservices for Airlift Mass Transit (17,000 rides/day) and Airlift Express (quick-commerce). Created shared npm packages, including the authorization guards used across services, and a rule engine. Deployed on AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, Aurora, CloudWatch) under time-critical, high-traffic conditions.

Node NodeJS Node.Js Development PostgreSQL AWS AWS Lambda Amazon Aurora

Software Engineer (Backend / Full Stack)

Airlift Technologies

Jul 2019 - Jun 2022 (2 years 11 months)

Built Node.js and PostgreSQL microservices for Airlift Mass Transit and Airlift Express, through a 17,000-rides/day transit operation and the pivot to rapid grocery delivery. Created shared npm packages, including authorization guards, and deployed on AWS.