Hamza Ghafoor — Full Stack Software Engineer | Backend & Platform Systems
Full-Stack Software Engineer (production since Nov 2022) who designs, builds, and operates systems end-to-end—features, APIs, queues, CI/CD, and Kubernetes—across SaaS products and restricted enterprise infrastructure.
Available for Senior Full Stack, Backend, and Platform Engineering roles. Remote, any time zone.
Experience
Full Stack Software Engineer @ MilestoneZero (Dec 2025 — Present)
- Designed, delivered, and deployed a sustainability platform for Abu Dhabi Police to on-premises, air-gapped Kubernetes with licensed software, domain-authenticated databases, and Linux–Windows/Kerberos constraints.
- Built multi-courier logistics integration and settlement across 9 providers (including PostEx, Leopards, and M&P)—provider abstraction, data normalization, reconciliation, returns/claims, and net receivables.
- Designed BullMQ / Amazon SQS async workers for 100K+ order capacity with concurrency controls, rate-limit awareness, retries, DLQs, and failure isolation.
- Owned Stripe Connect marketplace payment infrastructure: Connected Accounts, fund holding, delayed business-rule payouts, transfers, and refunds on an international events product.
- Shipped production AI features—message generation, booking-agent order summaries, and WhatsApp order-creation agents that cut a 15–30 minute capture task to seconds.
Full Stack Software Engineer @ AxonERP / Axon (Nov 2022 — Nov 2025)
- Designed and shipped full-stack ERP features and an ops admin panel with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, REST/GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
- Designed and operated on-prem Kubernetes (kOps/Helm) for 200+ client deployments with multi-tenant isolation, Dockerized apps/databases, PV/PVC storage, and Redis-backed workloads.
- Led the move from manual releases to GitHub Actions and Jenkins with image builds, migrations, seeding, and zero-downtime Helm upgrades—hours to minutes.
- Operated NGINX Ingress, cert-manager, Prometheus/Grafana, Longhorn backups, and cluster/database restore practices.
- Integrated n8n and WhatsApp Business APIs; contributed to code reviews and clean-architecture standards.
Projects
Multi-Courier Logistics & Settlement Platform
Scalable multi-provider logistics processing: 9 courier integrations, domain normalization, async workers for 100K+ orders, DLQ recovery, CPR/invoice reconciliation, and settlement workflows.
Stack: Node.js, BullMQ, Amazon SQS, PostgreSQL
Stripe Connect Marketplace Payments
Marketplace payment infrastructure for an international events product—Connected Accounts, ticket payments, fund holding, delayed payouts, transfers, and refunds driven by business rules.
Stack: Stripe Connect, Node.js, TypeScript
Multi-Tenant ERP Platform
Production multi-tenant SaaS ERP with tenant isolation, Helm client deployments, observability, and DR across 200+ on-prem environments.
Stack: React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
CI/CD & Container Automation
Pipelines to build/tag/push Docker images and promote Helm releases to Kubernetes; cut deployment cycles from hours to minutes.
Stack: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Helm, Docker
Production AI Order Agents
AI message generation, booking-agent order summaries, and order-creation agents with validation—compressing a 15–30 minute manual capture flow to seconds.
Stack: LLM agents, WhatsApp automation
ARCHARCH / Arch CLI
Open-source Go CLI that scaffolds feature-based Clean Architecture folder structures to standardize and accelerate project setup.
Stack: Go, Clean Architecture
Skills
- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, SQL
- Frontend: React, React Native, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, ShadCN
- Backend: Node.js, Express, REST APIs, GraphQL, Laravel, BullMQ, Amazon SQS
- Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL; Prisma, Drizzle, Kysely; Redis; partitioning & warm cache
- DevOps / Cloud-Native: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, kOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, NGINX Ingress, cert-manager, Longhorn
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, backup/DR
- Architecture: Multi-tenant SaaS, provider abstraction, async processing, Stripe Connect, air-gapped on-prem delivery
- Cloud & Platforms: AWS (S3, SQS, RDS), Vercel, Netlify; Git, n8n, Firebase, Appwrite, Supabase
- AI & Integrations: LLM agents, AI message generation, order summarization, WhatsApp automation
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