
Muhammad Akbar
Senior Platform Engineer at hedgehog lab
Salary / Daily rate
Manchester, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I'm a versatile engineer who builds end-to-end solutions that drive real business impact. With extensive experience in production environments, I've contributed to applications serving 1M+ users and led AI-driven projects generating millions in revenue. I work across the full technology stack—building modern web applications from front-end to back-end, integrating AI capabilities, and deploying scalable cloud infrastructure. I excel at understanding business requirements and translating them into robust technical solutions, thriving in Agile environments and practicing test-driven development with a product mindset.
Work experience
Senior Platform Engineer
hedgehog lab
Aug 2025 - Apr 2026
9 months
Manchester, UK
➢ Developed and maintained complex, large-scale backend systems using Django, contributing across the full development lifecycle from design through deployment. ➢ Conducted thorough code reviews to enforce clean code standards, ensuring maintainability, readability, and adherence to Django best practices across the team. ➢ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to architect, test, and ship backend components aligned with business and technical requirements. ➢ Optimized system performance through profiling, query tuning, and refactoring, improving reliability and scalability of production Django applications. ➢ Maintained comprehensive documentation and supported troubleshooting efforts to uphold system stability and ease onboarding.
Senior Python Developer
VIVID Technologies Ltd
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
1 year 11 months
Remote
– LLM and Al Integration: Implemented Large Language Model (LLM) and OpenAI-based solutions, specializing in building intelligent and interactive backend chatbots for enhanced user engagement. – API Design and Optimization: Designed, developed, and optimized APIs using Flask and Django REST Framework (DRF) to enable seamless application integration and efficient data exchange. – High-Performance Issue Resolution: Resolved high-demand, high-priority issues for applications serving large user bases, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. – Database Expertise: Extensive experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Redis, optimizing data storage and retrieval strategies for improved system performance. – Performance Debugging and Tuning: Diagnosed and enhanced performance for mission-critical applications, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and efficient resource utilization. – Collaboration and Deployment: Worked with cross-functional teams to deploy and maintain scalable, robust applications tailored to dynamic business needs. – Python Proficiency: Leveraged strong Python expertise to develop backend workflows and meet complex project requirements efficiently and effectively.
Python Developer
TechNerds
Feb 2020 - May 2023
3 years 4 months
Remote
– Working with Python Django, Django restframework and Python scraping. – Python scarping using selenium, beautiful soup and, python web driver. – Implementation and tracking of live data from different websites. – Working on Python Core and Python back-end frameworks. – Working with frontend like HTML5/CSS3/JS es6/JQuery along with template language of Django and Flask. – Use of design patterns like MVC and MVT. – Implementation of third parties like LDAP, Zammad and, Key Clock. – Working with different databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. – Implementation of Elastic search – Implementation of oAuth libraries like OAuth, OAuth2 and, django-allauth. – Leading the back-end team, responsible of deploying testing the code. – Implementation of AWS instances like ec2 and RDS. – Practice with Linux Ubunutu and terminals like Termius and AWS implementations. – Implementation of Redis and Celery for scheduling tasks and caching the data. – Implementation of cron jobs to schedule tasks from back-end app. – Working experience with Agile (SCRUM) using JIRA, and Waterfall methodologies with high-quality deliverables. – Working with version control: * GitHub * GitLab – Working with different databases: *SQL Server * MySQL * PostgreSQL * MongoDB * SQLite
Education
The Superior University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
2018 - 2022
4 years 1 month