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Usama Ilyas

@usamailyas1

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in scalable Python backend systems and cloud architecture.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I seek backend/cloud roles where I can drive scalable architecture, reduce latency, lead migrations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in high-availability enterprise environments.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years building and modernizing production SaaS platforms for enterprise clients, focused on Python (Django/Flask), system design, and high-availability cloud deployments.

I have delivered measurable impact including a 200x search performance improvement, zero-downtime migrations, enterprise SSO (Okta SAML/OIDC) integrations, and scaling APIs across millions of records while improving test coverage and reducing incidents.

I thrive on transforming monoliths into service-oriented architectures, optimizing systems for performance and reliability on AWS, and collaborating cross-functionally to accelerate onboarding and delivery for enterprise customers.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Turing

Aug 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Architected a search redesign across 4M+ records reducing response time from 60s to 300ms (200x) and implemented Okta SSO to accelerate enterprise client onboarding while modularizing a legacy monolith to improve release velocity by ~30%.

Python Django Redis Okta SSO Microservices CI CD AWS

Software Engineer

Devsinc

May 2021 - Jul 2023 (2 years 2 months)

Led zero-downtime database and infrastructure migrations ensuring 100% service continuity, optimized backend APIs to reduce response times by 25–40%, and introduced Docker-based CI/CD pipelines to cut deployment time from ~30 to under 10 minutes.

Python Docker AWS EC2 RDS ECS CI CD Data Migration Performance Tuning

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

COMSATS University Islamabad

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering

2018 - 2022

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering with coursework and projects focused on backend systems, web development, and scalable architectures.