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Saad Akbar

@saadakbar

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Senior software engineer specializing in Django backends and React frontends.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I seek a collaborative, product-focused engineering role where I can build scalable web applications, optimize performance, lead feature development, and grow into technical leadership.

I am a senior software engineer with strong full-stack experience building scalable web applications using Django REST on the backend and React/Redux on the frontend. I have driven performance improvements (page load reductions of 75%), optimized database queries, integrated ElasticSearch, and implemented async task processing with Celery, Redis, and RabbitMQ.

I collaborate closely with product owners, designers, and cross-functional teams in Agile environments, lead feature development that contributed to $1M in revenue in a quarter, conduct code reviews to uphold quality, and deliver secure, high-performance RESTful APIs and SPAs.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

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Arbisoft

Jul 2021 - Present (4 years 11 months)

Designed and maintained scalable full‑stack applications using Django REST and React/Redux, implemented performance optimizations reducing page load times by 75% and DB query times from 15s to 5s, and led feature development that drove $1M revenue in the first quarter post-launch.

React Redux PostgreSQL Celery Redis RabbitMQ Elasticsearch AWS S3

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences - NUCES FAST Lahore

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2016 - 2020

Completed B.S. in Computer Science with core coursework in Operating Systems, Databases, Algorithms, Programming Languages, and Computer Architecture.