Huzaifa Shahbaz

Senior Software Engineer | Backend Team Lead at Ninjas Code (2025-07 – Present)

Led the migration of legacy GraphQL and Express.js services to a modular NestJS and PostgreSQL architecture, improving maintainability and enabling independent feature development.
Designed and delivered production services for customer, driver, vendor, and administrator applications deployed on AWS infrastructure.
Built core capabilities for LUMI, a ride-hailing platform approved by the Qatar Ministry of Transport, including booking, bidding, driver matching, pricing, real-time tracking, wallets, payments, and operational workflows.
Owned features from requirements and data modeling through API implementation, web/mobile integration, testing support, deployment, and production troubleshooting.
Led architecture discussions, implementation planning, code reviews, and technical mentoring while coordinating delivery across frontend, mobile, QA, DevOps, and product teams.
Integrated AI coding agents into daily engineering workflows for codebase analysis, implementation planning, feature development, testing, debugging, and code review, improving delivery speed while maintaining manual validation and production-quality standards.

Senior Software Engineer at Wanile (2025-02 – 2025-05)

Served as the primary engineer for Kitabah, an Arabic writing and social platform for the Middle East, owning backend services, frontend integrations, content workflows, and user-facing features.
Delivered functionality across the stack while collaborating with junior engineers and product stakeholders on requirements, implementation, debugging, and releases.
Improved delivery speed and production stability by independently resolving issues spanning APIs, application state, integrations, and UI behavior.

Software Engineer | Team Lead at TechXpert (2022-09 – 2025-11)

Delivered 15+ products from scratch and contributed to 30+ production applications across marketplaces, logistics, booking, social, SaaS, fintech, and AI domains.
Built full-stack solutions using Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Express.js, React, Next.js, React Native, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and AWS.
Designed scalable APIs, database models, asynchronous jobs, payment and wallet flows, notification systems, real-time features, and third-party integrations.
Owned AWS deployments, Docker environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, performance optimization, and production incident resolution for client products.
Led engineers through planning, code review, technical trade-offs, mentoring, and production-readiness decisions while working directly with clients and cross-functional teams.

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