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Zain Akram

Senior Solution Architect & Full-Stack Engineer

Lahore, Pakistan · PKT (UTC+5), working US hours · devzain17@gmail.com · LinkedIn · GitHub

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Summary

Zain Akram is a senior solution architect and full-stack engineer in Lahore, Pakistan with 8+ years designing and building Laravel, Node.js, React and Next.js platforms for US companies, plus production AI agents, RAG chatbots and MCP servers. Available for senior remote roles, architecture consulting and fractional CTO work.

Experience

SL Tech (Streamline Technology) · Project Lead Developer

Aug 2025 to Present · Remote (US)
  • Lead end-to-end development of real estate platforms (single listing websites and listing products) on Laravel, PHP, MySQL and REST APIs, from architecture to production.
  • Architect multi-tenant backend systems built to handle growing client load.
  • Build production AI agents and an MCP-based chatbot that automate support and operations for real estate clients.
  • Primary technical contact for stakeholders. Lead a team of 10 senior engineers.
  • Lead engineer and architect of REConnect, serving 100+ brokerages and 20,000+ agents.

Comlink Total Solutions · Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2023 to Aug 2025 · Remote (US)
  • Joined as Software Engineer and was promoted to Senior, then Lead. Oversaw IT operations and the full development team (15+).
  • Architected a multi-tenant SaaS CRM for the US federal Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), tested on 50,000+ customers and used by about 10 provider companies.
  • Introduced Dockerized CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), cutting deployment time by about 60% and reducing production incidents.

ArhamSoft (Pvt) Ltd

Dec 2018 to Jan 2023 · Lahore, Pakistan

Technical Team Lead

Mar 2022 to Jan 2023
  • Led architecture for enterprise websites and CRMs, owned Tour27 end to end, and mentored teams of 10 to 20.
  • Built backend services for TheCareMD, a US telemedicine platform with 80,000+ patients.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2020 to Mar 2022
  • Built scalable Laravel backends and token-based auth, and optimized database performance.
  • Backend services for e-signature, childcare and resume-builder SaaS products.

Software Engineer

Dec 2018 to Jan 2020
  • Built Laravel features and REST APIs for client production systems.

CybexTech · Jr. Software Engineer

May 2018 to Dec 2018 · Pakistan
  • Built backend features in PHP and Laravel, including core modules of a school management system.

Selected projects

  • REConnect (Lead engineer and architect) — Real estate MLS data platform serving 100+ brokerages and 20,000+ agents, with AI agents handling about 90% of support tickets. [Laravel, React, Next.js, MCP, Claude]
  • TheCareMD (Backend engineer) — US telemedicine platform with 80,000+ patients and live iOS and Android apps for virtual consultations, prescriptions and lab referrals. [Laravel, REST APIs, MySQL, Next.js]
  • Tour27 (Architect and lead developer) — Travel and tour discovery platform with listings, itineraries, lead capture and an admin CMS. [NestJS, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL]
  • Nowsign & eSignPanda (Backend and platform engineer) — Enterprise e-signature SaaS with drag-and-drop fields, legally compliant audit trails, dynamic workflows and Stripe payments. [Laravel, Node.js, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL]
  • Brown Harris Stevens (Core developer (via Neutrino)) — Agent and client tools for a New York luxury real estate brokerage, plus a Gutenberg plugin with 70+ custom blocks powering its content site. [Laravel, JavaScript, WordPress, Gutenberg, React]
  • darzi.online (Founder and sole engineer) — Management software for tailoring businesses in Pakistan: orders, measurements and ledgers. Built solo and used by 500+ businesses. [MongoDB, Express, React, Next.js, Node.js]

Skills

Architecture
Solution architecture, System design & capacity planning, Domain-driven design, Multi-tenant SaaS, Modular monoliths & microservices, Event-driven architecture, API design (REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI), Data modeling, Caching strategies, Architecture decision records, Technical due diligence
AI engineering
Claude API, OpenAI API, RAG pipelines, Embeddings & vector search (pgvector, Chroma, Pinecone), MCP servers and clients, Tool-calling agents, Multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph), LangChain, Structured outputs & function calling, Prompt engineering & evals, Guardrails & prompt-injection defense, LLM observability (Langfuse), AI cost control (prompt caching, model routing, batching), Speech & OCR pipelines (Whisper, Tesseract), AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor)
Backend
PHP 8, Laravel, Node.js, NestJS, Express, TypeScript, Python / FastAPI, GraphQL, WebSockets, Queues & background jobs, PHPUnit / Jest
Frontend
React, Next.js (App Router, SSR, SSG), Vue, Nuxt, Tailwind CSS, Core Web Vitals, Technical SEO & structured data, WordPress / Gutenberg
Data
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Supabase, Query optimization & indexing, Data pipelines & normalization, Migrations at scale
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, EFS), Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Coolify, Vercel, Cloudflare, Nginx, CI/CD, Monitoring & alerting
Security
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT & session design, RBAC / multi-tenant isolation, OWASP Top 10, Rate limiting & abuse prevention, Secrets management, Audit trails
Integrations & automation
Stripe, PayPal, Twilio, RESO Web API (MLS), Experian / Equifax, GoHighLevel (GHL), n8n / Make / Zapier, Webhooks & event ingestion, E-signature (UETA / eIDAS)
Leadership & process
Technical leadership (teams of 10 to 20), Stakeholder communication, Estimation & roadmapping, Hiring & mentoring, Code review, Agile / Scrum, Runbooks & incident response

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Certified Laravel Developer
  • Micro1 Certified Engineer · Nov 2024
  • Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops · Apr 2017

Education

Master of Computer Science

University of Agriculture, Faisalabad · 2017 to 2021 · Grade A