Naqeebali
Shamsi
I make tech work harder so you don't have to
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Career Journey
2025 - Present
Propwise
Full Stack Engineer
Designing secure, versioned REST APIs for financial reporting with RBAC and event-driven workflows.
Designed event-driven RBAC system handling 50+ permission rules
2024 - 2025
Outlier AI
ML Developer (Contract)
Evaluating and improving LLM code-generation quality through structured technical review.
Improved code generation accuracy metrics by 35% through structured review
2023 - 2024
Opas Mobile
DevOps Developer (Co-op)
Cut release cycles by 60% with CI/CD pipelines and Terraform-provisioned AWS infrastructure.
Cut release cycles from 2 weeks to 3 days with automated CI/CD
2018 - 2022
Crest Data Systems
Software Engineer
Built high-throughput REST APIs (~1,300 rps) and migrated monolithic workloads to serverless.
Migrated monolith to serverless, reducing infra costs by 40%
/education
Dalhousie University
Master of Applied Computer Science
2022 - 2023 · Halifax, Canada
Charotar University
Bachelor of Technology in IT
2015 - 2019 · Changa, India
Origin
Surat, India
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NomadCrew
Mobile-first group travel coordination with real-time chat, expense splitting, and location sharing.
Audex
Desktop app for financial audit automation — Excel workbook generation and PDF reporting.
Mecanum
Lead-gen site for a Dubai-based American car-parts supplier. Bilingual EN/AR with full RTL, Payload CMS for editorial, scroll-pinned GSAP imagery, WhatsApp-first conversion.
More Projects
Transparent accountability dashboard for Indian politicians with evidence-backed scorecards.
Aggregates official public data on every Indian Member of Parliament into one searchable, source-backed dashboard — each metric traces to an official record (500k+ election records ingested). Politically neutral by design: it presents the data and lets citizens, journalists, and researchers draw their own conclusions.
Trip booking platform with real-time reservations, full testing suite, and Prisma ORM.
A trip-booking platform with real-time seat reservations on a fully-typed Next.js + Prisma/PostgreSQL stack. Booking and checkout forms are built with React Hook Form, and the critical flows are covered end-to-end by a Playwright test suite.
AI-powered document processing and form automation with multi-agent workflows.
An intelligent document-processing platform that extracts data from source files and auto-fills target forms using multi-agent LLM workflows. Built on Node.js and React with a Prisma/PostgreSQL backend, orchestrated with LangGraph, and deployed on AWS via Docker.
Spotify-style catalog of AI models and frameworks that checks which ones your hardware specs can run.
A Spotify-style library for browsing AI models and frameworks — LLMs, vision, video, audio, and agent frameworks like LangChain and CrewAI. Enter your hardware specs and it flags which models you can realistically run locally, with featured, trending, and new-release shelves.
Latest Writing
CAP, PACELC, and the Consistency Spectrum (Beyond "Pick Two")
CAP is misquoted as "pick two." PACELC is the upgrade: a partition forces consistency vs availability, otherwise you trade latency for consistency per op.
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Back-of-the-envelope estimation is a decision filter, not arithmetic. Its only product is an order of magnitude, and its only value is the moment a number flips an architecture choice.
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