Faran Ali
Engineering Lead | Logistics SaaS Architecture | Platform Modernization | KSA
Islamabad, Pakistan
Open to remote and to relocation (KSA / GCC)
Professional Summary
Hands-on Engineering Lead and logistics platform architect with 10+ years owning multi-tenant SaaS. Audits inherited platforms across architecture, codebase, multi-tenancy, application security, and reliability, then produces a prioritized remediation roadmap and leads the modernization.
Owns architecture across last-mile delivery, third-party logistics and carrier aggregation, commerce-to-fulfillment, dispatch, shipment lifecycles, contract pricing, COD and settlements, and KSA freight compliance, having absorbed three unfamiliar operational domains in a single year.
Drives one delivery team day to day and mentors a second while staying deep in implementation, and uses agentic engineering as a throughput multiplier — authoring custom skills, MCP servers, plugins, and agent workflows — shipping in weeks what previously took months.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer at Elityx
Full-time · Remote | Logistics & Enterprise Platforms | Saudi Arabia Market
- Own architecture, technology direction, and platform hardening across Elityx products while personally delivering the highest-risk implementation; drive one delivery team day to day and mentor a second — 10 engineers and 2 QA across backend, platform, and mobile — working directly with founders and executives.
- Audit inherited platforms across architecture, codebase, multi-tenancy, authorization, API and webhook security, credential handling, and technical debt, starting with SAAML on joining, then remediate critical findings personally and drive the prioritized modernization roadmap.
- Solo-architected and delivered Sakani, a production-grade furniture-movement platform for a Saudi public-sector housing program, under a compressed schedule — sole engineer across the React/TypeScript client and Laravel backend, 37 API endpoints and 138 automated tests.
- Delivered its commercial path — Arabic-first RTL journeys, SPL National Address and Google Maps capture, bilingual e-contracts, and staged HyperPay payments over mada and Apple Pay — with HMAC-signed idempotent webhooks and payment states that recover from uncertain gateway outcomes without double-charging.
- Architected SAAML's provider-neutral external-3PL and carrier-aggregation layer, personally delivered Le Ajlak connectivity, then extended it to Saffa and Uniex over the LogesTechs protocol — partner onboarding, shop sync, idempotent dispatch, signed webhooks, status normalization, retries, and reconciliation.
- Designed and built contract-based shipment forwarding and automatic carrier selection from rate cards, distance slabs, warehouses, zones, cities, districts, service levels, SLA criteria, eligibility policies, and priority rules, letting operations reroute shipments without code changes.
- Led KSA logistics, commerce, and finance capabilities across Salla, Zid, Shopify and partner APIs, WASL/ELM freight compliance, SPL National Address, geocoding and ETA, polygon zones, geofencing, serviceability, live tracking, Proof of Delivery, COD, wallets, ledgers, and settlements.
- Rebuilt SAAML's delivery pipeline as an atomic, self-verifying release system with health checks and automatic rollback, cutting CI time from roughly 10 minutes to under 2 minutes, and modernized a second inherited platform onto its canonical Blade and Vite stack, cutting page load time by around 40%.
Software Architect at Integrated IT Solutions
Full-time | Islamabad, Pakistan | Technical Team Lead 10/2022–12/2024, promoted to Software Architect 01/2025 | Returned following the Turing engagement
- Owned architecture, delivery, infrastructure, and engineering standards across the product portfolio, leading 5 to 8 developers, 2 QA engineers, and a designer, reporting to the CTO and CEO, and institutionalizing AI-augmented delivery as team standard.
- Led architecture and end-to-end delivery of a multi-tenant SaaS transportation-management system for U.S. NEMT providers, covering broker trip intake, dispatch, driver and vehicle operations, compliance capture, proof of trip, billing readiness, and reconciliation across 20+ tenants and 500+ vehicles.
- Modernized Rasenfunk.de and The Key Clinic through domain restructuring, frontend migration, Redis caching, and query optimization, cutting the Rasenfunk homepage load time to under 500ms.
Senior Software Engineer at Turing
Full-time | Remote
- Improved performance and production stability for AcquireCrowd, a lead-management platform processing roughly 1 million leads per month, deploying Redis clustering and removing N+1 query paths to improve average response times under load by 40 to 60 percent.
- Modernized a legacy Laravel and Blade application through framework upgrades, an Inertia.js migration, and Lucid architecture, strengthening modularity, maintainability, and delivery safety.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Integrated IT Solutions
Full-time | Rawalpindi, Pakistan
- Modernized The Key Clinic with a Vue 3 and Quasar SPA and cleaner Laravel domain boundaries, integrated Xero, Twilio, Cliniko, and online payments, and delivered the initial Rasenfunk.de platform on Nuxt 2 and Laravel.
Software Engineer at Seven Koncepts Pvt. Ltd.
Full-time | Progressed from Web Developer to Full Stack Web Developer
- Delivered Laravel, Vue, and WordPress platforms with APIs, e-commerce, and operations tooling, integrating Cybersource and PayPal across client projects.
AI Toolchain
Authors reusable skills, MCP servers, plugins, and agent workflows and applies them across architecture, implementation, testing, review, documentation, and releases. Work that previously took months now ships in weeks, with ownership of architecture, security, and correctness retained.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Iqra University
Language Skills
English (Full Professional Proficiency) | Urdu (Native)