Islamabad, Pakistan
Asim Ali
Software engineer — distributed systems & backend infra
Backend systems that stay up when everything else doesn't.
Career uptime
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since first commit · Oct 2021
Log
Work experience
2025 — NOW Veeam Software — Software Development Engineer ▾
Securiti.ai was acquired by Veeam for $1.725B in Dec 2025 — same team, same systems, new name.
- Optimized the Hyperdrive distributed worker for large-scale S3 data processing — redesigned file chunking and task scheduling for workloads of millions of files, cutting processing time by 87%
- Built graceful cancellation for long-running distributed workflows across Kubernetes workers and AWS Lambdas — consistent in 99.9% of cancellations
- Instrumented Prometheus + Grafana with Terraform-managed alerting across 1,000s of services, pods and queues
- Built and maintained Helm charts for deployment, config, and environment consistency
2024 — 2025 Securiti.ai — Backend Developer ▾
- Designed a Kubernetes-native distributed worker framework for S3 → ELK ingestion, handling millions of records at <1% failure rate
- Operated a dynamically-scaled execution platform (pods + Lambdas) for high-volume record processing
- Built scalable data export pipelines to publish large datasets to S3 in standardized formats, optimizing throughput and storage efficiency
- Engineered fine-grained access control systems across HDFS, SMB, Snowflake, and Databricks to strengthen enterprise data governance in hybrid environments
2023 — 2024 Quest — Software Engineer ▾
- Led a GIS web application — improved spatial search performance by 70%
- Built a generative-AI workflow automation platform — cut operational effort by 60%
- Ran store design, listing automation and order/vendor systems for an e-commerce client ($300K+ revenue)
2021 — 2023 Independent — Freelance Engineer ▾
- Delivered end-to-end products for startups and small businesses, from requirements through deployment
- Owned client communication, timelines, and delivery across several concurrent projects
Selected
Systems built
Car rental automation
End-to-end booking and dealer-coordination pipeline on n8n + Supabase + GPT — cut manual effort by 80%.
Analytica
E-commerce analytics platform with reverse auctions and real-time dashboards for capital allocation decisions.
Self-hosted cloud storage
Dockerized NextCloud on EC2 with persistent volumes and automated deploy/monitoring pipelines.
GitHub stats API
Service aggregating contributor statistics by month and year for team-activity visibility.
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Foundation
Education
BS, Computer Science
FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences — Islamabad
Graduated Jun 2023
Certificates
Vice Chairperson, IEEE Computer Society — FAST-NUCES · 2022–2023
Let's build something that doesn't fall over.
Best reached by email — I read everything that lands there.