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Professional Timeline

A trace of Aqib's engineering roles, team contributions, and project deliveries. Click on any block to expand specific responsibilities.

Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Current Role

Touchperia

Jul 2025 - PresentKarachi, Pakistan

Building backend APIs, frontend interfaces, mobile features, and production cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

  • Owned backend logic and API integration across Makaanza and HairZone in a lean two-developer team, translating product requirements into validated services, data workflows, mobile integrations, and testable edge cases.
  • Built and tested 9+ HairZone backend modules covering business profiles, services, availability, appointments, payments, notifications, reporting, and media workflows using Express, MongoDB, Stripe, and Cloudinary.
  • Implemented booking lifecycle logic and edge-case handling for availability, conflicting appointments, cancellations, payment failures, and notification updates across the React Native application and backend services.
  • Built Makaanza marketplace workflows using React Native, Supabase, and authentication, request validation, business rules, and database operations.
  • Built 7 HR modules covering employees, authentication, attendance, payroll, leave, documents, and onboarding; also created its GitLab CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by about 20 minutes per release.
  • Diagnosed an AWS deployment failure within a few hours using CloudWatch, IAM, and environment-configuration debugging; wrote unit, integration, API, and Playwright end-to-end tests.
  • Integrated Stripe, Cloudinary, Supabase, AWS, and REST APIs while coordinating validation and database workflows with project managers and a senior reviewer.
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactReact NativeNext.jsFastAPIDjangoNestJSPostgreSQLMongoDBAWSGitLab CI/CD

Full-Stack AI / Automation Projects

Current Role

Independent & Client Projects

2024 - PresentRemote

Delivering independent and client-focused project work across AI, automation, and full-stack systems.