Deep foundations in architecture, full-stack products, distributed systems, automation, and technical leadership.
Umar Abdullah / Senior Software + AI Engineer
Built for scale.10Y / SOFTWAREWired to think.05Y / AI
Ten years engineering scalable software. Five years shipping production AI—agents, retrieval, automation, and platforms built for real-world load.
software engineering
AI engineering
Open to complex work
A decade of engineering judgment
I design system that think.
Focused practice turning LLMs, agents, retrieval, and intelligent workflows into observable production systems.
depth
Capability architecture
Senior depth across the entire system.
Not a collection of tools. A practiced ability to move from ambiguity to architecture to reliable output.
Intelligence that survives production.
Agentic workflows, retrieval systems, evaluations, guardrails, and observability designed as software, not demos.
Systems engineered for the next order of magnitude.
Event-driven backends, multi-tenant platforms, real-time data, and resilient services with clean operational boundaries.
Complex work reduced to dependable flows.
Distributed queues, browser automation, integrations, and recovery paths that turn fragile manual work into infrastructure.
Technical depth with a product instinct.
From ambiguous brief to shipped interface: strategy, system design, implementation, instrumentation, and iteration.
Clarity across code, teams, and decisions.
Architecture direction, pragmatic standards, mentoring, and communication that moves senior teams through complexity.
Next.js / React / TypeScript / Tailwind CSS
Node.js / Express / Python / REST / GraphQL
LangChain / OpenAI / GPT APIs / RAG Pipelines / AI Agents
MySQL / Docker / MongoDB / PostgreSQL / Bull / BullMQ
Selected systems
Proof over promises.
Six selected production systems. The full archive contains 111 reviewed projects, including 12 verified live deployments.
systems
JHB Property Intelligence
MLS ingestion, market-model training, three-stage deal scoring, AI enrichment, maps, watchlists, and export in one operating system.
AI Visibility Platform
Model routing, research, queues, content generation, AI visibility, reporting, and publishing coordinated as a production platform.
Grounded AI Chatbot
Document ingestion, retrieval grading, multi-model generation, conversation operations, billing, and a distributable chat widget.
There is more beneath the surface.
View the complete work archiveCareer signal
Built through real constraints.
Each role added a new layer: delivery, scale, architecture, intelligence, and leadership.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
MarketlyticsBuilt and scaled a multi-tenant SaaS platform from 0 to 50K monthly active users. Designed microservices architecture. Implemented Stripe billing, automated onboarding, and real-time dashboards.
Software Engineer
E-KhataDelivered 15+ client projects across web scraping, automation, and web apps. Built Puppeteer-based scraping infrastructure processing 200K pages/day. Developed RESTful APIs and integrated third-party services.
B.Sc. Computer Science
Virtual UniversityGraduated with honors — specialization in Software Engineering. Capstone project: AI-powered plagiarism detection system. Active member of the Computer Science Society.
Engineering notes
I document the decisions behind the systems.
Browse all writingWeb Scraping at Scale: Architecture and Best Practices
Building a distributed web scraping system that processes 500K+ pages daily with 99.9% uptime.
Web Scraping / Puppeteer / Node.jsBuilding Production-Ready AI Agents with LangChain
Learn how to build robust AI agents that handle real-world tasks autonomously, from customer support to data analysis.
AI / LangChain / AutomationOpen channel
Let's build what does not exist yet.
For senior engineering roles, AI product architecture, and ambitious systems that need both depth and momentum.