Ayyaz Ali Furqan

About

Proven track record in building and scaling applications for distributed teams across the US, UK, and Australian time zones. Specialised in rapid MVP development and production-grade systems handling 10,000+ daily users. Expert in ReactJS, NodeJS, NextJS, MongoDB, AWS DevOps, and Generative AI integration

Experience

• Co-Founder · Innovage.io2021-05-01 –

  Contributed to software development, led and managed teams to resolve customer problems worldwide; - Helped over a dozen clients with their systems, including SaaS products and healthcare management. - Developed new features in a client's project and solved their existing bugs which were slowing down their system to a greater extent. - Handled clients' production issues and supported their systems so that they could handle thousands of requests per minute. - Defined and prioritized new tasks and delegated the work on the clients' behalf. - Built a hiring funnel to hire top talented people to work with us on clients' projects. - Created goals for the team to improve performance and achieve client goals. - Oversaw and was responsible for team activity monitoring and time reporting. - Delegated work and assignments to team members and ensured that we were on the same page with clients.

• Senior Software Engineer · Switchboard2024-03-01 – 2026-01-01

  - Handling complex backend for external Ecommerce Integrations - Structured AWS Cloud for scalable scaling the application - Built 40+ supply chain integrations with third party using API, GraphQL, SQL and created bridge between ERP systems - Handled Frontend in NextJs & React - Created Frontend from scratch for one of the small internal projects and scaled it to handle real time users.

• Senior Software Engineer · Toptal2021-10-01 – 2025-01-01

  - Developed a customised merch store for a client - Used Canvas design to make customised designs - Deployed on AWS with serverless SAM architecture - Maintained GA4 to properly track user behaviour and improved user retention by 20% - Integrated Elastic search to search through a large data of 1M in 0.2 secs

• Full Stack Developer · i2bits-Legal and Business Services2019-11-01 – 2020-09-01
• Full Stack Engineer · SolutionInn2014-07-01 – 2019-11-01

  - Scaled up the SolutionInn system while adding 50 new functionalities to the application that help students study better. - Fixed 1,000+ old major and minor bugs in the system to make it more efficient. - Added payment methods like Stripe and PayPal to securely process payments on the platform. - Helped manage the cloud server so that it could handle more traffic and make the system more reliable around the globe.

• Senior Software Engineer · Switchboard Cloud03-01-2024 – 01-01-2026

  - Architected and deployed 40+ supply chain integrations (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce) using GraphQL, REST APIs, and SQL, processing 50,000+ transactions daily - Designed AWS cloud infrastructure using ECS, Lambda, and Step Functions, reducing server costs by 35% while scaling to handle 3x traffic growth - Built real-time inventory sync system handling 100,000+ SKUs across multiple ERP systems with 99.9% uptime - Led frontend development for internal analytics dashboard in NextJS, enabling C-suite to track $2M+ monthly GMV in real-time - Implemented automated CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time from 45 minutes to 8 minutes

• Senior Full Stack Developer · KBM Engineering09-01-2023 – 03-01-2024

  - Delivered full-stack MVP in 60 days (ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB) supporting 5,000+ monthly active users - Integrated Stripe and multi-currency payment system processing $500K+ annually across 15 countries - Built admin dashboard with real-time analytics reducing customer service response time by 60% - Deployed production infrastructure on AWS using CloudFormation with auto-scaling capabilities - Established monitoring with CloudWatch and PagerDuty, achieving 99.8% uptime SLA

• Full-Stack Engineer | Co-Founder | CTO · Innovage.io04-01-2021 – 09-01-2023

  - Built a SaaS platform from scratch serving 50+ educational institutions, managing 10,000+ students - Developed a reservation system processing 2,000+ daily bookings with real-time slot availability - Scaled infrastructure to handle 1,000+ concurrent users with < 200ms response time - Led agile team of 5 developers with daily standups and 2-week sprint cycles - Reduced critical production issues resolution time to an average of 90 minutes (from 4+ hours) - Implemented an automated testing pipeline, achieving 85% code coverage

• Frontend Engineer · Scout & Cellar05-01-2021 – 11-01-2023

  - Implemented GA4 and Google Tag Manager tracking, improving conversion rate by 28% - Increased user session duration by 50% through UX optimisation and page performance improvements - Reduced page load time from 3.2s to 1.1s through code splitting and lazy loading - Collaborated with the product team to define KPIs and analytics strategy

Education

• National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesBachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering

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