I’m a Solutions Architect and Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years of experience building backend systems and distributed applications used in production. Over the years, I’ve worked across telecom, SaaS, and retail, designing systems that are reliable, scalable, and built to last.

I’m currently at Seddiqi Holding in Dubai, where I work on enterprise retail systems used across the GCC. I own four projects covering a mix of backend development, legacy POS modernization, mobile integrations, and production operations. Alongside my day-to-day work, I build internal AI and automation tools, including MCP servers, and spend time exploring RAG and LLM-based applications through side projects.

I work primarily in Python and TypeScript, and at a high level with Go and Java. I also maintain and modernize large PHP platforms, which is where much of my earlier production work sits. I enjoy designing system architectures, building APIs, integrating different platforms, and improving how software is delivered through CI/CD, observability, and automation. I like solving problems that make systems easier to operate and easier for other engineers to maintain.

Before Seddiqi: Technical Lead at TechieMatter, led two teams at Serv5 (bugs down ~40%), built Lamha's APIs, and worked on Resalty.net at 1M+ SMS/day across MENA.

• local-rag-ollama — self-hosted RAG pipeline: ingest, chunk, embed, retrieve, and answer locally with Ollama, FAISS, and Docker
• NestAgent — Python agent harness built without LangChain or LangGraph, to understand orchestration from first principles
• TaskMind — multi-provider AI agent application in TypeScript

I write up the architecture decisions behind this work as decision records: when a local LLM is required instead of an API, when GraphRAG earns its complexity over plain RAG, and when Kubernetes is over-engineering. For me, the interesting part of AI is the judgment calls, not the frameworks.

If you're interested in software architecture, backend engineering, engineering leadership, or practical AI, I'd be happy to connect.