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Abdul Ahad Shah

Karachi, PK • Riyadh, SA

Abdul Ahad Shah

Product-minded engineering leader with 7+ years shipping full-stack TypeScript & AI systems. Now focused on on-device Urdu/English models that give every Pakistani sovereign digital agency.

Experience

Soch Studios

Founder & Lead Engineer

Jul 2025 – Present

Building an open-source, private on-device AI agent platform tailored for Pakistan.

MazikGlobal

Associate Consultant (AI Engineering Lead)

Dec 2024 – Jun 2025

Architected an Azure-based AI studio and established an AI-native engineering practice.

Welab Health

Frontend Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Jun 2023 – Dec 2023

Led six-member team to launch multi-region corporate health SaaS.

Inserito

Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – May 2023

Delivered corporate SaaS MVP and scaled engineering processes for growth.

ePaging

Team Lead MERN Stack Development

Nov 2021 – Oct 2022

Shipped Web3 social platform and integrated blockchain (ERC-20/BSC) components.

Integnix

Technical Lead

Oct 2020 – Apr 2021

Launched InstaZap MVP via React Native app and Node.js API re-architecture.

Cloudlead

Full Stack Engineer

Feb 2018 – Oct 2020

Built the Cloudlead App UI and scaled ELT pipelines across AWS.

Projects

AI Studio

Content-workflow automation for a UK publisher on Azure OpenAI.

Tech: Python, Azure Functions, TypeScript

Cloudlead App

Human-verified data platform with high-throughput scrapers and internal tooling.

Tech: React, Next.js, Express, MongoDB

InstaZap

Food delivery MVP combining React Native apps with a Node.js backend.

Tech: React Native, React, Express, MongoDB

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScript • Node.js • React/Next.js • React Native

AI & Data

OSS LLMs • RAG • Vector DBs • Prompt Engineering

Cloud & DevOps

Azure • AWS • Docker • GitHub Actions

Leadership

Team building • Roadmap execution • Async collaboration • Coaching

Education

Binary University College

B.Sc. Computer Science (2014 – 2017)