Abdur Rahman Asad
Senior Software Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Mobility: Madrid, Barcelona, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience designing and delivering scalable, high-performing SaaS applications and robust design systems. Customer-centric in approach, with a strong commitment to creating intuitive, reliable, and visually cohesive user experiences that drive engagement and satisfaction. Impact-driven in execution, with a proven track record of reducing technical debt, improving system performance, and strengthening code quality across fast-paced, product-focused environments. Skilled at collaborating across engineering, product, and design teams to align technical solutions with business goals and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Work experience
Senior Software Engineer
Altruistiq
Mar 2025 - Dec 2025
10 months
Remote
• Worked as a Senior Software Engineer, alongside leading the technical product support across the full-stack and infrastructure. • Contributed to extending the internal design system and fixing front-end technical debt. • Collaborated with the Infra team to refine alerting across the micro-services to improve incident management using AWS CloudWatch and Incident.io • Reduced front-end security vulnerabilities from 100+ to fewer than 5 by auditing third-party packages, updating dependencies, and replacing unmaintainable libraries. This was a requirement for SOC2 compliance. • Provided hands-on mentorship to onboard new team members, helping them integrate and start contributing in under a week.
Spekit 🐙
May 2022 - Nov 2024
2 years 7 months
Senior Software Engineer - I
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
2 months
Software Engineer
May 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years 6 months
• Led the incremental refactoring of legacy code, significantly reducing technical debt and enhancing code maintainability and scalability. This initiative resulted in a 45% reduction in lines of code, boosted test coverage from 0% to 74%, and resolved long-standing high-priority production bugs. • Enhanced our application and Chrome extension by adding white labeling capabilities, allowing customers to rebrand the app with their own branding. It's enabled for 157 customers and used by companies like GitLab, Southwest Airlines, and Equifax. • Fixed our Algolia sync pipelines to stop syncing redundant data and performed a cleanup on the Algolia instance, reducing storage usage by 65% and cost will be reduced by roughly 25%. • Developed Knowledge Checks, bite-sized assessments to reinforce learning during work, resulting in increased user knowledge retention. • Refactored the algorithm used to record user journeys across web applications, mainly Salesforce, resulting in a 40% reduction in CPU usage. • Worked jointly with the product designer to refactor and add components to the internal design system. • Restructured and extended the metadata framework to improve content management and enable users to conduct searches on metadata by indexing it in Algolia. • Revamped cross-platform product features, increasing customers’ willingness to use the product from 14% to 86% and ease of use from 0% to 100%. • Extended rich text editor with custom plugins to add additional features. This new editor increased content creation by more than 33%. • Achieved a 30% reduction in product bugs by reimplementing features contributing to those bugs. • Developed a drag-and-drop feature to rearrange content in overlapping or isolated containers, one of the most requested features by customers. • Actively reviewed peer code and collaborated with the product manager and designer to scope features and design reviews.
Software Engineer
Arbisoft
Jul 2021 - May 2022
11 months
Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
• Worked as a full-stack open-source engineer on Open edX, the world’s largest MOOC platform. • Enhanced user experience by transforming frontend from Django templates to React micro-frontends. • Contributed to the development of Open edX’s new Discussions MFE, being used by more than 55M users worldwide. • Refined backend using Django, developed & refactored Restful APIs using Django Rest Framework. • Maintained a high code coverage of above 80% while fixing bugs and adding new features. • Facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions to introduce the team to unfamiliar tools. • Collaborated actively with an agile team, participating in daily standup, retrospective, sprint planning, and backlog grooming meetings.
Full Stack Developer
Carbon Co SkinsFreelance
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
9 months
Remote
• Engineered e-commerce applications from the ground up, enabling the business to establish an online presence. • Developed platforms with extensive use of HTML canvas for creating online designs and streamlined payments using Stripe, supporting 7 currencies. • Successfully gained mass attraction after launch with over 2.3M followers on social media. • Optimized applications to be used by mobile users and in-app browsers, improving user experience by 55%. • Instituted & Launched a profile management portal, connecting user profiles to NFC cards. • Integrated Facebook pixel and Google analytics to accelerate sales by enhancing ad conversion.
Web Developer
FiverrFreelance
May 2020 - Mar 2021
11 months
Remote
• Worked as a level 2 freelance web developer and programmer using C, C++, Java, Python, Javascript, React, and NodeJs. • Developed landing pages for product publicity, dashboards for healthcare systems, product prototypes, and frontends for blockchain projects. • Delivered 72 projects with 70 five-star reviews. • Contributed to the development of OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation to boost creativity and critical thinking. • Engineered web portals for displaying real-time data in digital signage systems deployed at various places across Ireland.
Education
University of the Punjab
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering
2017 - 2021
5 years
Licenses & certifications
Python Data Structures
Issued: May 2020
Computer Vision - Image Basics with OpenCV and Python
Issued: May 2020