ZaheerUlDeen Babar

Senior Full Stack Developer leading backend and frontend delivery across PHP/Laravel and Node.js-based stacks (MERN, MEAN). Skilled in designing microservices-based architectures, REST and GraphQL APIs, and leading small engineering teams through planning, code review, and delivery. Comfortable owning a feature end-to-end, from requirement breakdown to deployment, while mentoring junior engineers and coordinating across QA and DevOps.

Currently expanding into AI-powered application development through independent projects involving local LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation.

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) at Rolustech (2023-06 – Present)

• Lead a small team of engineers across concurrent client projects, owning sprint planning, code review standards, and technical mentoring.
• Architected a microservices-based API layer separating concerns across request aggregation, response transformation, and caching, improving maintainability and reducing response latency.
• Designed and exposed both REST and GraphQL endpoints depending on client integration needs, giving frontend teams flexible data access patterns.
• Acted as the primary technical point of contact for international clients, translating business requirements into solution architecture and sprint-level roadmaps.
• Coordinated across development, QA, and DevOps to keep production systems stable through concurrent releases.
• Mentored junior and mid-level engineers through pair programming, architecture walkthroughs, and structured code reviews.

Software Engineer (Full Stack) at Rolustech (2021-11 – 2023-06)

• Built and maintained REST APIs consumed by React.js frontends for enterprise dashboards.
• Delivered custom backend modules and workflow automation across multiple concurrent client projects.
• Worked within agile sprint cycles alongside QA and DevOps to ship features on schedule.
• Took early ownership of smaller features end-to-end, from requirement clarification through deployment.

Web Developer (Internship) at Techcon Solutions (2020-06 – 2021-09)

• Built an automated web scraping pipeline for database enrichment, removing a recurring manual data-entry workload from the team's weekly routine.
• Integrated multiple third-party APIs, including Google Maps and Places, to improve geolocation accuracy for retail-facing applications.
• Developed custom web applications using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript, alongside backend work in Laravel and CodeIgniter.
• Refactored legacy codebases into a modern MVC structure, reducing technical debt and improving application performance.
• Worked directly with senior engineers to scope small features and learn production coding standards early in the role.

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering – GIFT University (2016 – 2021)