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
Docker / MongoDB / PostgreSQL / Bull / BullMQ
Selected systems
Proof over promises.
Six selected production systems. The full archive contains 108 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.
WordPress AI Publishing Bridge
Versioned API-key authentication, WordPress and WooCommerce handlers, SEO metadata adapters, and controlled remote publishing.
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A responsive package-discovery and booking journey backed by customer, content, support, payment, and media services.
Atlee Chat
A tenant-configurable RAG product with multi-source ingestion, grounded chat, embeddable delivery, operational inboxes, and billing.
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 AI Engineer
TechCorp Inc.Architected and deployed multi-agent AI systems handling 10K+ daily conversations. Built custom RAG pipelines reducing support ticket volume by 40%. Led a team of 4 engineers building LLM-powered product features.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
StartupXYZBuilt and scaled a multi-tenant SaaS platform from 0 to 50K monthly active users. Designed microservices architecture with Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Implemented Stripe billing, automated onboarding, and real-time dashboards.
Software Engineer
Digital Agency Co.Delivered 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
University of TechnologyGraduated with honors, specializing 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.