Shamiq.dev

Karachi · UK / EU remote

Muhammad Shamiq Hussain

AI Engineer & Engineering Team Lead

Python AI engineer and team lead shipping RAG assistants, multi-agent document pipelines, and production systems across healthcare, construction tech, and eCommerce.

8+ years delivering measurable outcomes - from McLaren document automation to peak-sale reliability at SQUATWOLF.

Python • RAG & AI Agents • AWS • TypeScript • Node.js

0%
Black Friday downtime
40%
faster document processing
12x
faster API CRUD
20%
conversion lift (AI merchandising)

Selected work

Featured engagements

01

Aug 2025 - Present

C-Link

Multi-agent AI document automation for construction SaaS

Engineering Team Lead · Xynotech

Problem

Client onboarding for a construction SaaS platform depended on manually turning contractor and quantity-surveyor Word documents into dynamic templates, slowing delivery for clients including McLaren.

Approach

Led 5-8 engineers from SPIKE and architecture through sprint execution, reviews, and releases. As a proof of concept directly assigned by the CTO, independently architected a multi-agent AI pipeline: uploaded DOCX files are converted to HTML and rendered in a WYSIWYG editor, one AI agent scans the document to identify and de-duplicate candidate dynamic fields (shortcodes), and - once a field is approved or a structured change request is submitted - a second AI agent drafts a developer-ready requirements brief with a suggested implementation strategy, logging every step to Jira via API.

Outcome

40% less time spent on manual document processing, with finished documents published as live dynamic templates for clients including McLaren.

02

Jul 2024 - Jul 2025

DentalZorg

RAG clinical-protocols assistant + platform modernisation

Technical Team Lead · DentalZorg

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Problem

Clinical staff at a 30-year-old dental hospital firm had no fast way to search internal protocols. The same platform ran on unstructured legacy data, and a typical API CRUD flow took about six hours.

Approach

Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) clinical protocols assistant - embedding protocol and reference documents as vector data and integrating OpenAI's API with engineered prompts to return standardised, structured answers to dentists, assistants, and hospital staff. Also migrated 30+ years of unstructured data into a normalised relational database and engineered a CLI-based CRUD generator.

Outcome

50% system performance boost. API development time cut 12x, from 6 hours to 30 minutes. Clinical staff now get instant, standardised protocol answers without manually searching documentation.

03

Apr 2021 - Jul 2024

SQUATWOLF

AI merchandising and peak-sale reliability

Lead Software Engineer · Disrupt.com (formerly Gaditek)

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Problem

SQUATWOLF started on a WooCommerce storefront bolted to a Laravel OMS, hosted on Cloudways and Pagely - a stack that couldn't hold up under peak sale traffic or scale across growing GCC markets.

Approach

Over 3+ years leading a team of 3-4 developers, built an AI product-merchandising recommendations engine (Searchspring, Nosto) and used Grafana, New Relic, and k6 load testing to keep peak-sale traffic stable. Supporting architecture: migrated off WooCommerce to a Laravel and Node.js microservices stack (dedicated OMS, PIM, and merchandising services) on AWS, with a headless Shopify Plus storefront in Next.js. Enforced TDD/BDD with PHPUnit and Laravel Dusk.

Outcome

0% downtime on Black Friday and peak sales. 70% fewer team errors. 20% conversion lift. 73% fewer regression bugs.

Workflows

AI for productivity

As Engineering Team Lead I use Anthropic Claude (custom skills + MCPs) and Cursor to remove repetitive catch-up and documentation work so delivery and R&D stay the priority.

Daily / weekly catch-up

Tool: Anthropic Claude

MCPs: Google Suite (Gmail, Drive, Calendar), Slack, Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)

Built a skill that automates catch-up for previous day, current day, weekly, or last week. It returns a priority-ordered action list covering Jira tickets, unblock messages, deployment-channel code reviews, upcoming meetings with action points, planned releases, Confluence docs to review, and meeting summaries.

DevOps release documents

Tool: Anthropic Claude

MCPs: Atlassian (Confluence, Jira), GitHub

Built a skill aligned to our Confluence DevOps release template. It asks for PR, target environment, feature branch, ticket links, release items, and changed files (to flag migrations, env files, or internal package changes), then drafts the release document to our standard.

Code knowledge transfer

Tool: Cursor AI

Used Cursor to review code flows, migrations, and key implementation details before planning or fixing - cutting hours of discovery time and reducing dependency on other developers for knowledge transfer.

These are the top examples; additional AI-assisted workflows exist beyond this list.

Client work

Projects

C-Link - Construction SaaS logo

C-Link - Construction SaaS

ReactAngularSlim FrameworkNode.jsAI AgentsAWSMicroservices

Client onboarding for a construction SaaS platform depended on manually turning contractor and quantity-surveyor documents into dynamic templates, slowing delivery for clients including McLaren.

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DentalZorg - Platform Modernisation logo

DentalZorg - Platform Modernisation

LaravelNext.js 14ReduxNest.jsMySQLPostgreSQLSupabaseRedisPusherAWS S3PostmarkLaravel HorizonLaravel TelescopeOpenAI APIRAG

A 30-year-old dental hospital firm ran on unstructured legacy data spread across disconnected processes, with no unified way to manage patient relationships, scheduling, inventory, or clinical protocols.

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SQUATWOLF - Headless Commerce logo

SQUATWOLF - Headless Commerce

LaravelNode.jsNext.jsRemix.jsShopify PlusWooCommerceAWS (EC2, S3, RDS)RedisLaravel HorizonLaravel TelescopeKlaviyo

SQUATWOLF started on a WooCommerce storefront bolted to a Laravel order management system, hosted on Cloudways and GoDaddy's Pagely - a stack that couldn't hold up under peak sale traffic or scale product and order operations across growing GCC markets.

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PureVPN - VPN Services logo

PureVPN - VPN Services

SymfonyLaravelNode.jsGraphQLRedisAWS SQSAWS EC2

A VPN platform's billing system had recurring bugs that were crashing the service, and its backend needed better caching and event-driven communication between services.

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Maid to Sparkle - Location-Based Scheduling Platform logo

Maid to Sparkle - Location-Based Scheduling Platform

LaravelMySQLFirebase

A home-cleaning service needed to automatically assign the closest available maid to each house and route vans efficiently, including getting staff back home via the closest available van.

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Edukimi - Learning Management System

PHPMySQLJavaScriptCentOS 7

A learning management system was stuck on shared hosting with an outdated PHP runtime and a broken custom JavaScript dual video-player sync bug.

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Pakerp - Core PHP ERP logo

Pakerp - Core PHP ERP

PHPMySQLjQuery

A business needed a single ERP system covering accounts, sales, purchasing, inventory, payroll, and point of sale.

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Digital Authority - SEO Reporting Tool logo

Digital Authority - SEO Reporting Tool

LaravelMySQLRedis

A digital marketing agency needed a SERP analysis tool that could generate a combined report for a given website, but report generation blocked the app and broken Facebook and Google API integrations were pulling in bad data.

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PakRe - Reinsurance Management System logo

PakRe - Reinsurance Management System

PHPLaravelMySQLMS SQL Server

Pakistan's sole state-owned reinsurer ran reinsurance operations without a dedicated digital system.

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Ideas Group PK - Real Estate Website logo

Ideas Group PK - Real Estate Website

Next.jsLaravel

A construction company needed a marketing and real estate website, plus a way for staff to manage listings and content without touching code.

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State Bank of Pakistan - Bidding Module logo

State Bank of Pakistan - Bidding Module

LaravelNode.jsFirebaseMS SQL ServerRedis

Pakistan's central bank needed a secure bidding module with real-time communication between bidders during live auctions.

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Sindh Health Department - eFile Management logo

Sindh Health Department - eFile Management

CodeIgniterMySQLjQuery

The Government of Sindh's Health Department managed files and records manually.

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Sindh Health Department - Covid Symptoms Tool logo

Sindh Health Department - Covid Symptoms Tool

CodeIgniterMySQLRedis

Sindh's pandemic response needed a fast, public way for residents to check COVID-19 symptoms, with a symptom questionnaire that could be updated as health guidance changed and mobile apps that could integrate with it.

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The Urban Market - eCommerce Platform

LaravelMySQLjQuery

A Bangladeshi retail marketplace needed its eCommerce platform extended, including support for an additional payment gateway at checkout.

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Bangladesh Ministry of Finance (NBR) - Platform Hardening logo

Bangladesh Ministry of Finance (NBR) - Platform Hardening

CodeIgniterMySQL

Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue needed its CodeIgniter/MySQL platform optimised and secured.

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Nordic Channels - WordPress Integration logo

Nordic Channels - WordPress Integration

WordPressAJAXSOAP

A Nordic media platform needed AJAX-driven SOAP APIs integrated into its WordPress site.

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Findwala - Lost & Found Platform

LaravelJavaScriptMySQL

There was no dedicated platform to help people report and find lost items.

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SosellUp - Property Bidding Platform

PHPLaravelMySQL

A property bidding site was running on unmaintained core PHP on an old PHP runtime.

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Dr. Diabetes - Performance Optimisation

WordPressPHP

A WordPress health platform had slow load times, partly from unoptimised media uploads and images loading before they were needed.

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About

How I work

AI Engineer and Engineering Team Lead based in Karachi, Pakistan, with 8+ years shipping production systems across healthcare, construction tech, and eCommerce. Focus: Python, AWS, RAG, and LLM agent pipelines. Delivered 0% downtime on Black Friday for SQUATWOLF, built a RAG clinical-protocols assistant for dental hospital staff, and architected multi-agent document automation for construction SaaS clients including McLaren. Also uses Anthropic Claude (skills + MCPs) and Cursor to cut Team Lead catch-up and release-doc overhead. Brings deep technical architecture expertise with full engineering leadership ownership from SPIKE to production.

Chronology

Experience

  1. Aug 2025 - Present

    Engineering Team Lead

    Xynotech · Client: C-Link Construction Link · Karachi, Pakistan

    • Independently architected a multi-agent AI pipeline as a proof of concept, directly assigned by the CTO, that automates client onboarding by turning contractor and quantity-surveyor Word documents into dynamic, shortcode-driven templates for client publishing - reducing manual document processing time by 40%.
    • Led 5-8 engineers building a construction SaaS platform for clients including McLaren, owning the full delivery lifecycle from SPIKE and architecture planning through sprint execution, code reviews, and DevOps release documentation.
    • Built Anthropic Claude skills (Google Suite, Slack, Atlassian, and GitHub MCPs) to automate daily and weekly catch-up into a priority-ordered action list, and to draft DevOps release documents to the team's Confluence template.
    • Formalised engineering delivery as acting Scrum Master for an 8-member cross-functional team - introducing structured Jira workflows, a standardised Git branching strategy, and a Kanban stream for urgent releases, reducing sprint conflicts and establishing a weekly release cadence coordinated with the Delivery Manager via Confluence-documented CI/CD deployment processes.
  2. Jul 2024 - Jul 2025

    Technical Team Lead

    DentalZorg · Karachi, Pakistan

    • Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) clinical protocols assistant - embedded internal protocol and reference documents as vector data and integrated OpenAI's API with engineered prompts to return standardised, structured answers to dentists, assistants, and hospital staff.
    • Boosted system performance by 50% by migrating 30+ years of unstructured legacy data into a normalised relational database as part of a full platform modernisation for a 30-year-old dental hospital firm.
    • Reduced API development time by 12x (6 hours to 30 minutes) by engineering a CLI-based CRUD generator, accelerating team delivery velocity significantly.
  3. Apr 2021 - Jul 2024

    Lead Software Engineer

    Disrupt.com (formerly Gaditek) · Client: SQUATWOLF · Karachi, Pakistan

    • Achieved 0% downtime during Black Friday and all peak sale events by using Grafana and New Relic monitoring combined with proactive k6 load testing on AWS infrastructure.
    • Increased conversion rates by 20% with an AI-based product merchandising recommendations engine (Searchspring, Nosto).
    • Eliminated Shopify frontend limitations by introducing headless commerce architecture with Next.js on Shopify Plus, and decommissioned a fragile WooCommerce system bloated with 100+ plugins by migrating to a modern event-driven Laravel and Node.js microservices architecture - including a dedicated Node.js PIM service for bulk product updates and Google Ads stock feed sync across GCC markets.
    • Reduced team errors by 70% by overhauling Git branching and Jira workflow processes.
    • Reduced regression bugs by 73% by enforcing TDD/BDD practices using PHPUnit and Laravel Dusk and standardising Laravel coding standards across the eCommerce platform.
  4. Feb 2019 - Apr 2021

    Software Engineer

    Sapphire Consulting Services · Karachi, Pakistan

    • Digitised reinsurance operations for PakRe - Pakistan's sole state-owned reinsurer - by designing and delivering a full Reinsurance Management System (RMS) using PHP, Laravel, MySQL, and MS SQL Server.
    • Increased development speed by 80% by engineering a dynamic single-page form and listing algorithm, eliminating repetitive development effort across the RMS.
  5. Jun 2018 - Feb 2019

    PHP Developer

    Boxygen · Karachi, Pakistan

    • Progressed from intern to PHP Developer within 9 months by independently delivering ERP school module customisations in core PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and jQuery - reducing manual administrative processing time for school staff.

Capabilities

Skills

AI / LLM Engineering

RAGMulti-Agent PipelinesPrompt EngineeringOpenAI API IntegrationVector EmbeddingsAI-Powered Document AutomationAnthropic Claude (Skills + MCP)Cursor

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLPHP

Frameworks / runtime

Node.jsExpress.jsReact.jsNext.jsLaravelCodeIgniterSlim Framework

Architecture

MicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureHeadless CommerceDomain-Driven Design (DDD)REST APIsDesign Patterns

Cloud

AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, RDS, IAM, Secrets Manager, ECS)DockerSonarQube

Databases

MySQLPostgreSQLRedisRabbitMQ

Monitoring

GrafanaNew Relick6Laravel HorizonLaravel TelescopePHPUnitLaravel Dusk

eCommerce

Shopify PlusShopify APIsWooCommerce

Core Competencies

Engineering LeadershipSprint PlanningSystem ArchitectureRemote Team ManagementStakeholder CommunicationTechnical Mentoring

Also Exploring

Java (Spring Boot)

Learning

Certifications

Contact

Let’s work together

Use Gmail for roles and collaborations. I work remotely with UK and EU teams from Karachi.