Summary
Waqas Ahmad is a Senior Software Design Engineer based in Islamabad with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable fintech and banking systems. He leads backend architecture and modernization efforts at Teresol, specializing in Java Spring Boot, Node.js, RESTful APIs, complex SQL, and state management with XState. Known for improving legacy core-banking workflows and mentoring teams, he combines performance-driven engineering with practical CI/CD and observability practices like Elastic log analysis. Equally comfortable across the MERN stack and Python, he pursues machine learning and data science interests outside day-to-day work, and balances consulting via Upwork and Fiverr with his enterprise responsibilities. Practical, detail-oriented, and curious, he often surfaces non-obvious optimizations in query design and state machines that materially improve system reliability.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at COMSATS University Islamabad
Intermediate Computer Science Mathematics Physics, Intermediate Computer Science Mathematics Physics at Govt Model Science College Muzaffarabad AJK
English, Urdu, French