Shahzaib – React, Typescript, Node.js
Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in the JavaScript ecosystem and cloud platforms like AWS/Azure. Delivered high-impact projects for startups (including YC-backed) featuring AI chatbots, auth systems, and web platforms. Highlights include an AI resume parser using OpenAI models and a third-prize-winning Facebook Messenger chatbot for carpooling.
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Senior Full-stack Engineer
It's a job portal that enables employers to post jobs, shortlist candidates, and schedule interviews, while allowing candidates to search for and apply to jobs.


- Designed and delivered a greenfield job marketplace platform from scratch, covering both employer and candidate workflows.
- Implemented the back end using Nest.js with a modular architecture, clean separation of concerns, and RESTful API design.
- Built the front end with React, developing intuitive user flows for job posting, applications, candidate shortlisting, and interview scheduling.
- Modeled core domain entities (Jobs, Candidates, Employers, Applications, Interviews) to ensure extensibility and data integrity.
- Implemented authentication and authorization for secure user access control.
- Delivered a production-ready system with a foundation for future features such as subscriptions, analytics, and notifications.
Lead Engineer
It's a secure service-to-service authentication and authorisation framework using Azure ENTRA ID, fully aligned with the organisation’s Azure infrastructure.
- Implemented service-to-service authentication using OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow with Azure Entra ID, removing the need for user interaction.
- Created dedicated App Registrations per service to enable isolated identities, independent lifecycle management, and stronger security boundaries.
- Automated Azure Entra ID App Registration management with Terraform for consistency, repeatability, and infrastructure-as-code alignment.
- Standardized JWT token validation across services to ensure authenticity, integrity, and trusted issuer verification.
- Enforced scope-based authorization by scoping tokens to target service App Registrations for precise access control.
- Introduced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) at the service level to restrict API access and enhance security governance.
- Strengthened the platform’s security posture by adopting Azure-native identity management and reducing operational overhead.
- Enabled scalable onboarding of new services with minimal friction while maintaining strict security and compliance standards.
Front-end Engineer
It's a Marketing Technology Platform for a food delivery company that enables the marketing team to independently create, manage, and run customer-facing campaigns.
- Built the front-end experience for a self-serve marketing platform used by internal teams.
- Empowered marketing teams to create, configure, and manage campaigns independently from developers.
- Implemented flexible voucher logic supporting both fixed-amount and percentage-based discounts.
- Integrated seamlessly with live production systems, including checkout and customer flows.
- Prioritized usability and reliability to handle frequent campaign updates with high business impact.
- Liaised with product and marketing stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable solutions.
Senior Software Engineer
It's a product for a leading global meal-kit subscription company that lets customers easily refer friends and receive a reward when the referred user places their first order.
- Delivered a production-ready referral product aligned with business growth and retention goals.
- Built and launched the end-to-end front-end experience from concept to production.
- Integrated with existing back-end services for accurate referral tracking and reward fulfillment.
- Focused on delivering a frictionless user journey with clear and easy reward redemption.
- Maintained reliability and performance while working within an active production environment.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to translate business requirements into an intuitive user-facing product.
Back-end Engineer
It's a reliable automation system that connects Jira and GitHub with an internal ticketing platform, eliminating manual work and ensuring development teams never miss important tasks.

- Designed the end-to-end event-driven architecture for Jira and GitHub integrations.
- Implemented secure webhook ingestion APIs in Node.js with signature validation.
- Designed a database schema for webhook event storage with idempotency guarantees.
- Built asynchronous processing workers to transform external events into internal developer tickets.
- Defined normalized data models to unify Jira and GitHub events into a single internal ticket format.
- Integrated Hasura GraphQL for data persistence, permissions, and service-to-service communication.
- Implemented retry, failure handling, and replay mechanisms for failed webhook events.
- Ensured scalability and reliability by decoupling webhook ingestion from business logic.
- Added observability through structured logging, status tracking, and error monitoring.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to align internal ticket workflows with development processes.
Software Engineer
It's an AI-driven conversational chatbot for Facebook Messenger powered by Wit.ai. The solution allows car owners to publish ride availability and passengers to submit ride requests seamlessly within a chat interface.
- Designed and implemented an AI-powered chatbot for intent recognition, entity extraction, and conversational flow management.
- Built chatbot workflows to capture ride availability from car owners and ride requests from passengers through natural language input.
- Integrated Facebook Messenger APIs to manage real-time messaging, user sessions, and event-driven interactions.
- Developed back-end logic to match ride offers with passenger requests for efficient carpool coordination.
- Earned 3rd place in the Facebook Developers Community Asia competition for innovation and real-world impact.