Muhammad Hamza

Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and maintaining production web platforms across recruitment, HR, government education, and combat sports. Backend-focused with strong experience in Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, real-time systems, background jobs, and third-party integrations. Comfortable working across React, Next.js, and Vue when a product needs full-stack ownership.

Experienced in schema design, performance optimization, data migrations, authentication, production support, and taking features from technical design through release.

Senior Software Engineer at Aslase (2025-12 – Present)

• Own backend-heavy full-stack features on Mubadala Takafo using NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Vue.js, Redis, and Azure Service Bus.
• Designed and delivered the VIP Referral module covering priority/government referrals, candidate workflows, timed notifications, external-partner routing, UAT, and production release.
• Review junior PRs, mentor developers, estimate work, join architecture discussions, coordinate with QA, and troubleshoot production issues.

Backend Engineer at Ilsa Interactive (2024-12 – 2025-11)

• Led backend technical delivery for Fightbook from initial schema through launch, covering six user roles, multi-sport workflows, fights, challenges, recommendations, chat, notifications, and identity verification.
• Reviewed PRs and coordinated API/data contracts with frontend developers; helped ship the first production launch in ~6-7 months.
• Built SPSG migration scripts from.NET/MySQL to NestJS/PostgreSQL with schema mapping, transactional validation, and rejected-record tracking.

Software Engineer at NeuroHeap (2024-05 – 2024-11)

• Worked as sole backend engineer for FootyContact and a unified social messaging prototype using NestJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, JWT, and Jest.
• Used Elasticsearch for fast athlete search over datasets expected to reach millions of records and Kafka for high-volume social interactions.

Software Engineer / Associate Software Engineer at Devsinc (2022-02 – 2024-05)

• Worked on Justworks payroll/forecasting optimization and UK Department for Education NPQ/ECF services using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Reduced 5-10+ minute payroll forecasting flows to seconds through query improvements, production-data corrections, and association redesign.
• Maintained NPQ/ECF applications, delivered a new mathematics-related qualification flow across two repositories, and supported REST/background-job synchronization.

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering (BSSE) in Software Engineering – PUCIT, University of the Punjab (2018 – 2022)