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Mohammed Ali Zubair
From Canada 12:56 PM (GMT-04:00)
$80/hr or $160,000/yr

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BAckend Engineer

Back-end Engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
6+ years
Experience level
Senior
Available for
Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance
Available from
23 Jun 2026

Backend engineer with multiple years of experience building and optimizing distributed systems and scalable applications. Recent work has centered on owning end-to-end features across 30+ microservices, including third-party integrations, paginated APIs, and large-scale data-model migrations.

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Employment History

Backend Developer at Boostsecurty.io 2025 - 2026
• Contributed across ~30 microservices in a security platform covering source-control integrations, code scanning, supply chain analysis, vulnerability findings, and outbound notifications. • Shipped inline PR review comments across all four major source-control providers (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps). Authored a shared diff renderer, multi-patch handling, and collapsible AI-remediation suggestions, layered with provider-specific behavior — delivered over ~2 months touching 6+ services. • Built API-token-based authentication for a major source-control provider end-to-end, replacing the deprecated OAuth path. New REST client, webhook handlers, GraphQL mutations, frontend stubs, schema migrations, and deployment configuration coordinated across the full request path. • Designed a paginated filter primitive adopted platform-wide, enabling efficient large-list filtering (rule names, vulnerability identifiers, repository attributes, asset IDs) across four backend services backed by Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL. • Unified third-party app cleanup logic across all four source-control providers. Built internal APIs and cross-service removal flows that collapsed four ad-hoc paths into a single management layer, eliminating an entire class of orphaned-installation bugs. • Delivered end-to-end end-of-life (EOL) package tracking across 5 services: shared data-model library, the package inventory store, the third-party package metadata service, the cross
Python Developer at Crunch.io 2022 - 2024
In-House Task System: Developed and expanded a scalable task system, replacing the previous Celery-based system. Enhanced visibility and control of tasks by 80% with new monitoring tools and created meaningful Grafana dashboards and custom data points via Prometheus. • Service Search: Built from scratch, interfacing with in-house databases, MongoDB and optimizing query performance from 1 hour to 8 seconds. Set up CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. • AI-Core: Refactored the initial project by containerizing applications for different environments and establishing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub workflows and achieving 70% test coverage. • Crunch Data Analytics: Maintained the main analytics engine project, which handles data import, storage, and export. Implemented fixes for issues from Sentry, and participated in monthly tech talks. Optimized testing for external warehouse services with Minio for local and test environments and debugged issues in AWS EKS clusters using kubectl.
Software Developer at CornerCase Technologies 2021 - 2022
• Developed and managed various backend applications (API development and maintenance) across multiple projects: GlobeTrott (travel app), PropertyMatch (property management), HeyCharm (e-commerce), Sherlook (insurance), and Sibil (payments/reconciliations). • Identified and addressed performance bottlenecks. Introduced pagination, filtering, and migrations in existing backend projects to standardize and speed up API responses. Maintained testing coverage of at least 85% across all projects. Integrated third-party APIs: Stripe, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and local payment gateways. • Engineered high-availability MySQL database architectures across five SaaS platforms over 24 months, optimizing query performance by 40% through indexing, stored procedures, and scheduled database tuning, resulting in SLA uptime compliance exceeding 99.9%.
Senior Software Engineer at ZS Solutions 2020 - 2021
• Developed Digicure, a telehealth prototype for a private client. Led the development of TableChief, a restaurant/customer management system. • Standardized workflows using automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployments. • Enhanced user experience with clean error handling, fast accurate searches, and optimized Django ORM features. Revived testing procedures in legacy applications and improved authentication systems, database communication, and API integration. • Integrated Elasticsearch into a property management platform over 6 months, optimizing search functionality for 40,000+ records and reducing query response times by 60% using Django, AWS, and Docker environments.
Software Engineer at Binate Solutions 2019 - 2020
• Developed backend for a nationwide telecom e-commerce site at KPN. Conducted requirement analysis, implemented in-house software, introduced CI/CD pipelines and Docker/Docker Compose for service-to-service communication. Introduced Redis clusters and Redis Sentinel for fault-tolerant data transfer between backend services. • Developed a subscription-based property maintenance and management system for DBS. Conducted client meetings, developed Django project architecture including testing and deployment, using Travis CI, Docker, and AWS.
Software Developer at KajKey 2019 - 2019
• Led backend development for their in-house product. • Conducted requirement analysis and implemented solutions for backend services built using Django. • Adhered to feature-driven development policies during software development. • Established CI/CD integration for automated testing implemented using pytest and deployment using Docker images on AWS.
Software Engineer at Cramstack 2017 - 2018
• Contributed to designing and maintaining REST API endpoints. • Implemented features with essential business logic modules to create insightful dashboards for clients. • Developed in-house data-centric dashboards for private clients and organizations. • Created an open-source tool to streamline the development of data-centric dashboard prototypes with deployment capabilities. • Established CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket for automated tes

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