Usman Fareed

Pindor Group Ltd (Boddy.travel) · Zurich, Switzerland · remote

• Sole backend engineer from inception through funding for a multi-vendor travel and fitness marketplace that secured a $2.2M seed round.
• Designed and built the B2B distribution API (ConnectHub) that lets external travel aggregators sell Boddy products: full booking lifecycle, retail price markup across 9 fitness providers, voucher management, partner payouts and Stripe webhook-driven payment processing.
• Integrated 15+ third-party APIs (Stripe, Amadeus, DragonPass, PrioTicket, Bokun) with reusable client wrappers, token caching, structured error mapping and webhook verification (JWT/HS256).
• Built a geospatial search engine with multi-dimensional filtering, timezone-aware class scheduling, currency conversion and an Elasticsearch indexing pipeline for real-time sync.
• Implemented OpenIddict authentication, GraphQL venue APIs, a gRPC service layer, a role-based admin panel and multi-tenant fitness network management.
• Engineered caching (Redis, Azure CDN) that accelerated data retrieval by 70% and image load speeds by 85%; optimised Azure costs and ran 10+ background workers with CI/CD pipelines at 99.9% uptime.
• Uses AI-assisted development (Claude, ChatGPT, Google Antigravity) to accelerate architectural planning, API design and code generation.

Stack .NET 8 · C# · Azure App Services · Azure Service Bus · Redis · PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch · Stripe · GraphQL · gRPC · OpenIddict · NodaTime · EF Core · Docker · CI/CD

SPQR Operations B.V. · Amsterdam, Netherlands · remote

• Delivered 5–8 backend projects across IoT, e-commerce, fintech and logistics as the primary backend engineer for a fast-paced Dutch operations company.
• Built an IoT monitoring platform on InfluxDB for time-series sensor data (temperature, humidity) with real-time dashboards for live environmental tracking across connected devices.
• Developed a full backend API in NestJS (Node.js/TypeScript) and a MongoDB caching layer for Magento e-commerce data.
• Migrated 40 GB of assets between Azure Blob Storage and AWS S3 with zero downtime; engineered an automated worker service saving $12,000 a year in operating costs.
• Architected Reasy, a warehouse-sharing platform, from the ground up: domain model, API layer and cloud deployment strategy.

Stack .NET Core · C# · NestJS · TypeScript · MongoDB · InfluxDB · Magento API · Azure Blob Storage · AWS S3 · Entity Framework · MS SQL · REST

National Software Developers · Peshawar, Pakistan

• Built a government arms-licence management system with a district-level analytics dashboard, complex reporting stored procedures and RDLC/Crystal Reports for official documentation.
• Developed an integrated university platform connecting student management, a library system (card reading, QR code generation, 20,000+ tracked assets) and payment processing for 4,000+ students.
• Led a high-security system migration, coordinating cross-functional teams with zero data loss across 20,000+ records.

Stack .NET Framework · ASP.NET MVC · C# · MS SQL (stored procedures) · Crystal Reports · RDLC · Entity Framework · JavaScript