Muhammad Umer Jamil

Designed and developed scalable REST APIs with FastAPI, supporting modular routing, JWT-secured endpoints, and production deployment on Azure App Service.

Implemented

Clerk-based authentication with JWT validation, user provisioning, and startup-scoped role-based access control (Owner, Admin) enforced via reusable permission dependencies and billing-aware account policies. Architected and optimized Microsoft SQL Server data models and query performance, encapsulating complex fundraising and CRM logic in T-SQL stored procedures.

Backend Engineer at Technovate Global (2025-11 – Present)

• Designed and developed scalable REST APIs with FastAPI, supporting modular routing, JWT-secured endpoints, and production deployment on Azure App Service.
• Implemented Clerk-based authentication with JWT validation, user provisioning, and startup-scoped role-based access control (Owner, Admin) enforced via reusable permission dependencies and billing-aware account policies.
• Architected and optimized Microsoft SQL Server data models and query performance, encapsulating complex fundraising and CRM logic in T-SQL stored procedures.
• Built Gmail OAuth 2.0 integration for secure connect/disconnect flows, inbox read/send APIs, token refresh, and sent-email audit logging tied to investor pipeline workflows.
• Integrated Recombee for similar-deal recommendations, investor–startup matching, batch catalog sync, engagement tracking, and weekly recommendation persistence and email delivery.
• Leveraged Azure OpenAI and Azure Blob Storage to parse fundraising documents (PDF, PPTX, DOCX), extract structured deal fields, and generate investor-specific pitch-deck recommendations from guidelines and notes.
• Delivered investor relationship management features including Kanban fundraising pipelines, bulk import, team invitations with SMTP notifications, and multi-tenant startup context switching.
• Integrated Stripe Checkout, Customer Portal, and signed webhooks to manage subscriptions, promotions, and billing state synchronized with the application database.
• Built and managed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions (OIDC) for automated builds and deployments to Azure Web App across dev and production environments.
• Technologies: FastAPI, Python, SQL Server, T-SQL, Clerk, Recombee, Azure (App Service, Blob Storage, OpenAI), Google Gmail API, Stripe, GitHub Actions, pytest

Software Engineer at U.S.A based startup (2024-10 – 2025-11)

• Design, build and maintain the software applications that are efficient and meet the business requirements.
• Map out complex business processes and translating them into efficient software and automated workflows.
• Develop robust no-code and low-code automation solutions.
• Focus on building business-friendly software, automating tasks, integrating systems, and optimizing workflows to save time and reduce errors.
• Work closely with stakeholders to identify development and automation opportunities and deliver solutions that add measurable value.
• Collaborated with various teams to deliver tailored software solutions, targeting full-stack development, API integrations, and user-centered design.
• Efficiently using, integrating, and decreasing the latency of 3rd party APIs to enhance performance and user experience.
• Built and deployed new features from the ground up, overseeing design, development, and delivery.
• Technologies: NextJS, ReactJS, ExpressJS, NodeJS, Supabase, n8n, zapier, playwright, MongoDB, NoSQL, Supabase, PostGreSQL

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) (2021-09 – 2025-05)