Usama Akbar

Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS, Fintech, HealthTech, and blockchain-enabled applications. Specializes in TypeScript across the stack — React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, and GraphQL — with production experience in Solidity smart contract development and AWS cloud infrastructure. Track record of optimizing backend query performance, hardening application security, and delivering client-facing features in distributed Agile teams across global time zones.

Senior Software Engineer II at Innovation-Insight (2024-07 – Present)

• Architect and develop full-stack SaaS and Fintech platforms using React, Next.js, NestJS, GraphQL, and MongoDB, delivering scalable and maintainable production codebases.
• Led full-stack development of Fintech systems handling real-time payment processing, KYC/KYB verification flows, and secure financial data management with React, Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
• Reduced response time on high-traffic affiliate payment endpoints by [X]% by replacing sequential database calls with $facet aggregation pipelines and parallelized commission/payout queries.
• Design and deploy Solidity smart contracts using the Foundry framework, enabling secure on-chain transactions for Fintech platforms across Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon.
• Hardened media delivery for a healthcare platform by migrating publicly addressable S3 assets to CloudFront presigned URLs behind an Express authorization proxy, eliminating unauthenticated access to protected patient media.
• Built responsive, user-centric interfaces backed by robust API layers, ensuring seamless end-to-end functionality across web and mobile clients.
• Communicate directly with clients through demos and feedback sessions, aligning technical deliverables with business requirements and release timelines.
• Enforce secure coding practices across the stack, including dependency auditing, credential rotation, and IAM least-privilege policies following security incident reviews.

MERN Stack Engineer at CreativeLogicx (2023-07 – 2024-07)

• Delivered features for an Australian B2B e-commerce liquor platform within a Scrum team of 6, using React, TypeScript, Next.js, Vue.js, GraphQL, and Redux.
• Developed real-time pricing, discount management, coupon systems, deal-builder, and report-generator modules with a strong focus on responsive design.
• Translated user stories from Confluence into technical implementations, collaborating with BSAs and product owners across Agile sprint cycles.
• Conducted peer code reviews to enforce quality standards, identify performance improvements, and uphold engineering best practices.
• Shipped critical feature implementations that measurably improved platform reliability and page load performance.

Software Engineer at VOH Technologies (2022-10 – 2023-07)

• Developed the frontend of Xanalia, a decentralized NFT marketplace for the Metaverse spanning Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon, powered by Chainlink VRF.
• Collaborated with a Scrum team of 12+ engineers to build marketplace features using React, Web3.js, Redux, Redux-Thunk, Styled Components, and Jest.
• Integrated crypto wallets including MetaMask, Binance Chain Wallet, and Polygon for secure NFT minting, buying, and selling flows.
• Achieved 80%+ unit test code coverage with Jest and Enzyme, improving platform stability and reducing regression defects.
• Built a reusable React component library and integrated REST APIs to standardize frontend-backend communication across the product.

BS Computer Science in Computer Science – Virtual University of Pakistan (2021-02 – 2025-11)