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Sikandar Waheed

Backend Lead / Architect

sikandar00@outlook.comIslamabad, Pakistangithub.com/sikandar100www.linkedin.com/in/sikandar996/

Backend lead and architect. I design multi-tenant systems, RBAC and audit-trail data models, and dynamic rule engines, plus the migrations and test suites that keep them safe under load.

shipping since 2013 · 13 years

Experience

Backend / AI Consultant · Fiqros

Jan 2026 – Present

AI consulting on automation and multi-agent systems, then partnering on a product (HRMS).

  • Worked across Copilot Kit and OpenClaw multi-agent tooling
  • Partner and technical lead on a multi-tenant HRMS product (launching 2026)

Senior Backend Engineer → Team Lead · Hiveworx (Pvt) Ltd

Jun 2022 – Dec 2025

First Node.js hire. Built the backend team, standards and delivery pipeline, then led a 12-person team through two large government builds.

  • Established the Node.js backend structure and coding standards from scratch
  • Introduced source control (on-prem GitLab) and a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline with DevOps, then trained the team. Deployments went from 3–4 hours of manual work to a few automated minutes
  • Personally ported two Java products (HiveEPM, Xigt) to Node.js/NestJS, keeping the same frontend and reworking the endpoints, with notably faster responses on major APIs such as the import/export modules
  • Grew to Team Lead within ~6 months, hiring and building the backend team

Backend Engineer (Node.js) · EmbraceIT

Dec 2020 – May 2022

Grew from intern to mid-level Node.js backend engineer, from an in-house HRMS to client delivery.

  • Intern → Junior → Mid-level over ~18 months
  • Built an in-house HRMS with live-meeting modules (NestJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, TypeScript)
  • After its launch, moved to a client project on the same stack (REST APIs on AWS Lambda), which earned the step up to mid-level

Selected projects

Multi-tenant HRMS

2026 → present

A multi-tenant HR platform with role-based access control and an audit/history architecture, backed by a large e2e test suite.

NestJS · TypeORM · PostgreSQL · TypeScript · RBAC · e2e testing

CSD commerce platform + rule engine

2023 → 2025

Installment & retail commerce platform for a large defense-sector retailer (50+ branches, 100k+ customers), with a fully dynamic pricing/discount rule engine.

Node.js · NestJS · PostgreSQL · Oracle · SQL · Rule engine · Jenkins

Immigration risk-profiling portal (FIA)

2025

A public-facing portal that turns a traveller questionnaire into a scored risk profile, feeding flagged profiles into the department’s system.

Node.js · NestJS · PostgreSQL · Oracle · Jenkins

Multi-agent client system (OpenClaw)

2026

An always-on multi-agent workflow deployed on EC2 behind a Cloudflare tunnel.

OpenClaw · EC2 · Cloudflare Tunnel · Node.js

Clipping automation pipeline

2026

A queue-orchestrated media pipeline that clips and processes video with a human-in-the-loop review dashboard.

BullMQ · Redis · Playwright · whisper · ffmpeg · Node.js

Skills

Backend & data: Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, REST API design, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, TypeORM, SQL / data migration, RBAC / multi-tenancy, Rule engines / audit models, GraphQL / Apollo Federation
Delivery & leadership: Team leadership (12+), Backend standards / architecture, Git / GitLab, Jenkins CI, Mentoring / hiring
Infra & delivery: EC2 / AWS, Cloudflare, Docker, CI / e2e testing
Network analysis & research: Network analysis (NetworkX), Centrality measures, Community detection, Social-network / Twitter datasets, Graph algorithms, Python
Earlier / familiar: Java / Android, PHP, HTML / CSS
Automation & orchestration: BullMQ / queues, Redis, Playwright, Multi-agent / OpenClaw, ffmpeg, whisper

Education

MS, Information Sciences · Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

2018–2021

MSc, Computer Science · Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

2015–2017

BSc, Computer Science · University of the Punjab, Lahore

2013–2014