Zaid Sanaullah
@zaidsanaullah
Backend-heavy senior full-stack engineer building scalable .NET/Python APIs and AI agent evaluation systems.
What I'm looking for
I’m a senior full stack engineer (backend-heavy) shipping production APIs in .NET and Python for logistics, payments, AI tooling, and enterprise clients across Europe, the UK, and the US. I’m comfortable on the frontend with Angular, Blazor, and Material UI when delivery needs it, and I’ve led backend teams of 3 to 4 engineers while owning architecture and day-to-day delivery.
Most recently, I’ve been backend tech lead for UI Gyms—building PostgreSQL schemas and Python/FastAPI APIs for config, tasks, sessions, and state, and fixing load/concurrency issues by tuning connection pooling, caching DB connections, isolating sessions per DB connection, and pre-warming session databases. Earlier, I led a last-mile platform handling up to 5,000 daily orders and scaled an AI training backend from 1 to 2 users to 70+ concurrent agents, including designing agent evaluation tasks and rubrics for LLM training pipelines.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead Backend Engineer
Turing Palo Alto
Jan 2026 - Present (6 months)
Backend tech lead for UI Gyms mock apps where vision-language agents train and run tasks. Owned PostgreSQL and Python/FastAPI APIs, led a 3–4 engineer backend team, and fixed load concurrency issues to support 70+ concurrent agents.
AI Agent Evaluation Contractor
Vetto Inc (via Toptal)
May 2026 - Jun 2026 (1 month)
Built task-based Terminal Bench-style environments where agentic models fix multi-file code in data preprocessing, data science, and ML workflows. Authored prompts and test cases, generated sandboxes from prompts, and graded agent fixes against pass/fail test suites.
AI Code Evaluation Pod Lead
Turing Palo Alto
Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 (3 months)
Led a 4-person coding-evaluation pod focused on RLHF and agent-evaluation pipelines. Audited trainer-reported failures, enforced prompt quality standards, and reviewed multi-language work including C#/.NET and Angular.
AI Code Evaluation Engineer
Turing Palo Alto
Mar 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 5 months)
Scored real-user coding queries across model samples for correctness, clarity, effectiveness, and conciseness, with written rationales. Authored ideal solutions and flexible rubrics across C#/.NET and Angular without locking to a single golden path.
Lead Software Developer
MeshLogix Solutions
May 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 1 month)
Led backend for Mandoob Tuwaiq, a city-scale last-mile platform handling roughly 1,000 to 5,000 daily orders. Owned architecture and delivery, shipped payment-gateway and Zid integrations, and built MyFocusTime and related referral and email workflows.
Software Developer
MeshLogix Solutions
Mar 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 2 months)
Built C#/.NET Core admin panels and REST APIs for logistics and productivity products before promotion to lead. Owned order lifecycle, real-time status, SQL Server workflows, and payment integrations.
Software Developer
PlatformCore
Aug 2020 - Apr 2023 (2 years 8 months)
Developed the frontend for a social publishing platform supporting multi-network posting with Angular and UI charting. Migrated LoopBack 3 to LoopBack 4 (TypeScript) by splitting a monolith into an API gateway and microservices using gRPC, adding JWT auth and Stripe subscription billing.
Software Developer
Auto SmartTech
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022 (5 months)
Delivered Angular + .NET Core modules for UK education and government testing systems. Extended exam software for music tests and built multi-evaluator language-test reporting to produce final evaluations from multiple scorers.
Web Developer
Best of PK
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 4 months)
Replaced Excel-based operations with an ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server IMS supporting thousands of SKUs. Built billing, courier-shipping integrations, financial reports, an ecommerce storefront, and SMTP order alerts for customers and management.
Junior Software Developer
Spectam Solutions
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020 (2 months)
Built Angular frontends for a school platform including attendance, notes, progress, and test scheduling with AM Charts. Developed a webcomic site supporting uploads, sharing, and reading, matching designs pixel-for-pixel to Figma.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Virtual University of Pakistan
Bachelor of Science, Business and Information Technology
2018 - 2022
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Business and Information Technology (BBIT) at Virtual University of Pakistan from September 2018 to July 2022.
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