Faran Ali
Principal Software Engineer | Multi-Tenant SaaS | Payments, Integrations & Platform Modernization
Islamabad, Pakistan
Open to remote and to relocation (KSA / GCC)
Professional Summary
Principal-level software engineer with 10+ years building, hardening, and modernizing multi-tenant SaaS platforms end to end — owning architecture and technology decisions while personally delivering the highest-risk code across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
Deep production record in payment and integration reliability — signed idempotent webhooks, payment states that recover without double-charging, retries and reconciliation — and in platform outcomes at scale: a transportation SaaS serving 20+ tenants and 500+ vehicles, and a lead platform processing roughly 1 million leads per month improved 40 to 60 percent under load.
Author of faran/pulsar, an open-source Laravel architecture package. AI-native workflow — Claude Code, Codex, custom agents and MCP servers — applied across implementation, testing, review, and release, with architecture, security, and correctness owned by the engineer.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer at Elityx
Full-time · Remote | Logistics & Enterprise Platforms | Saudi Arabia Market
- 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.
- Audit inherited platforms across architecture, codebase, multi-tenancy, authorization, API and webhook security, credential handling, and technical debt, then remediate the critical findings personally and drive the prioritized modernization roadmap.
- Drive one delivery team day to day and mentor a second — 10 engineers and 2 QA — while owning the architectural roadmap and remaining hands-on in the highest-risk implementation.
- Rebuilt delivery pipelines as atomic, self-verifying release systems with health checks and automatic rollback, cutting CI time from roughly 10 minutes to under 2 minutes, and modernized an 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 hands-on architecture, delivery, PR reviews, and client-facing requirements across concurrent projects, leading 5 to 8 developers, 2 QA engineers, and a designer, 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 codebase discovery, implementation, refactoring, debugging, testing, review, and design-to-code. Work that previously took months now ships in weeks, with direct ownership of code quality retained.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Iqra University
Language Skills
English (Full Professional Proficiency) | Urdu (Native)