Backend engineer · 3+ years

Muhammad AwaisBackend Engineerbuilding scalable Node.js & NestJS APIs

Scalable APIs, services, and data layersin Node.js and NestJS. Lately I'm taking systems all the way from my laptop to production, and writing about the unglamorous middle.

Experience3+ years
StackNode · NestJS · Postgres
CurrentlyLearning ops in public
StatusOpen to roles

About

I build the parts of products users never see — and always rely on. I care about clean service boundaries, well-modeled data, and APIs other teams can build on without surprises.

Lately I've been taking projects the whole way: containerizing services, wiring up CI/CD, and self-hosting off the platform to learn what it was quietly doing for me. [Edit this with your own story.]

NOW

Learning ops in public — taking a NestJS API from laptop to a self-hosted box with Nginx, HTTPS and CI/CD by hand.

Work

Stack

Languages

TypeScriptexpert
Node.jsexpert
JavaScriptexpert
SQLintermed.

Frameworks

NestJSexpert
Express.jsexpert
Next.jsintermed.
React.jsintermed.

Data & Infra

PostgreSQLexpert
Redisintermed.
ElasticSearchintermed.
Dockerintermed.
AWSintermed.

APIs & Auth

RESTexpert
JWT / OAuthexpert
GraphQLintermed.
WebSocketsintermed.
BullMQintermed.

Experience

Jan 2025 — Jan 2026

Software Engineer

OCloud Solutions

Built Impactly, a B2B ESG data intelligence platform serving financial institutions across the Nordics and Baltics. Independently designed a dynamic carbon emissions calculator for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, integrated ElasticSearch for fast retrieval across large company and ESG datasets, and built a JSON-driven form engine so new data workflows shipped without frontend changes.

Aug 2023 — Jan 2025

Software Engineer

Kwanso

Designed a device session management system limiting concurrent logins via refresh-token tracking — first in PostgreSQL, then migrated to Redis for performance. Built an internal Employee Management System backend in NestJS, merged three sites into a single Strapi CMS, and wrote a Strapi plugin issuing CloudFront signed URLs for private S3 assets.

Apr 2022 — Aug 2022

.NET Developer Intern

VU Solutions

Built MVC-architecture APIs for enterprise applications using .NET Web API and Microsoft SQL Server, and sharpened relational database fundamentals through hands-on SQL query optimisation.

Credentials

education
2023

Bachelor of Computer Science

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
certifications
AI-900

Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft · 2025
DP-100

Azure Data Scientist Associate

Microsoft · 2025

Let's talk

Open to backend and platform roles. Drop a note here, or reach me directly.