Backend Systems & AI Engineer
Where systems engineering meets product.
Hi, I'm Ahnaf. I design and ship production systems that handle complexity at scale, from distributed architectures to AI-powered applications.
Over the past 8years, I've built real-time messaging systems, container orchestration platforms, distributed backends, and complete end-to-end products. Most recently, I spent five months at a startup architecting AI agents and agentic workflows into production applications, shipping RAG pipelines, function-calling systems, and multi-step workflows that integrate with complex backend infrastructure.
I work in TypeScript, Go, and Python, with deep expertise in developing product, distributed systems, production AI agent architecture and database systems.
Currently studying Computer Science; previously Software Engineer at a UK startup. I'm available for consulting and development projects.
The software infrastructure to run your cyber labs. It provisions isolated, repeatable VM-based training environments from declarative scenarios, with automated networking, asynchronous lifecycle management, health monitoring, and admin/trainee access controls.
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A multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure built to understand how platforms like Heroku work under the hood. It handles deployment, compute selection, orchestration, and fault-tolerant task distribution.
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A real-time, secure, scalable, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform designed with a zero-trust architecture.
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A Plex-like system for browsing locally downloaded Light Novels with custom scraping, multilingual full-text search, and client-side caching.
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"Throughout Ahnaf's employment, he was able to fulfil every single need of my business. Ahnaf constantly adjusted his schedule to prioritise work and was able to keep up-to-date on a strict work schedule. He was able to develop my business' website and its service within three months of work, which involved setting up email, administration, contact support and ultimately developing the service."
"He continuously conveyed effective time management during the website's development, an ability to communicate and listen to create my vision, the confidence to discuss with me his own ideas and an interest in his work."
"Ahnaf is a good worker - he was able to do everything I asked of him with great attention to detail."
Samuel Eggins
Founder, Dupeids (Sydney, Australia)
18-month contract • Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
"Excellent work... I will definitely be working with this developer in the future! I highly recommend Ahnaf, he is adaptable, hardworking, and proactive."
"This is my second project with this developer... I struck gold with Ahnaf! He is my first developer on Fiverr and has made a very good impression on myself and my team."
Joseph Allen
Contract Client
December 2020 (2 projects)
A working set for building products, distributed systems, and production AI infrastructure.
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