Polyglot Software Engineer
Islamabad, PK ·
Muhammad
Hamza.
Curiosity took me from iOS to full-stack web, backend systems and ML. I've shipped identity-verification SDKs, a retail platform for one of Qatar's largest chains, and real-time surveillance software.
Now: Software Engineer at Volga Partners
- Years shipping production software
- 3+
- Identities verified by my Finger SDK
- 1M+
- Face-recognition accuracy (FaceNet)
- 97%
- BS Computational Science, NUST
- ’26
- Swift✱
- SwiftUI✱
- Go✱
- NestJS✱
- Vue.js✱
- React✱
- Next.js✱
- PostgreSQL✱
- Redis✱
- Azure✱
- Docker✱
- FastAPI✱
- OpenCV✱
- C++✱
Selected work
(05)- 01
Cowlar Design Studio / 2025 — 2026
Al Meera Retail OS
Enterprise retail platform for Al Meera, one of Qatar's largest retail chains. It runs e-commerce, fulfilment, commercial operations and in-store workflows.
- Scale Management System that syncs SAP PLU and product data to weighing scales across stores.
- Payment Gateway Orchestrator: one abstraction layer over multiple payment providers.
- Gift card platform integrated with POS for issuance and redemption in every store.
- Reusable Redis caching layer and faster high-traffic catalog APIs.
- Vue.js
- NestJS
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Azure
- Docker
- 01Scale sync
- 02Payments
- 03Gift cards
- 04Caching
- 02
truID / 2024 — 2025
Finger Verification SDK
Built truID's fingerprint verification SDK from scratch. It has now verified more than a million identities.
- Swift
- iOS
Identities verified1M+ - 03
truID / 2024 — 2025
iOS Identity Verification SDK
Developed and integrated an identity verification SDK that matches users against NADRA, Pakistan's national database.
- Refactored the SDK for maintainability, making development about 50% faster.
- Swift
- iOS
Match accuracy with NADRA89% - 04
truID / 2024 — 2025
Askari Digital Onboarding
Launched Askari's digital onboarding app on the App Store, streamlining how new customers register.
- Swift
- SwiftUI
Live on the App StoreiOS - 05
Sentinel AI / 2023 — 2024
Video Surveillance Platform
Web-based surveillance app with multi-stream rendering, dashboards and real-time alerts, plus face-recognition attendance.
- React frontend for multi-stream video and dashboards.
- Node.js APIs, with FastAPI serving the ML models.
- Real-time notifications over WebSockets, data in MongoDB.
- React
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- WebSockets
- MongoDB
- FaceNet
Face-recognition accuracy97%
Side projects
(09)Swipe
Pranary
Clientstaging server
Sentinel AI
Clientsentinel-website.vercel.app
One Health
Clientone-health-official.vercel.app
Quizzacle
Appquizzical-by-hamza.vercel.app
Weather App
Apph-react-weather-app.netlify.app
Natours
Conceptnatours-projects.netlify.app
Omnifood
Conceptomnifood-design.netlify.app
Woodie Furniture
Conceptfurniture-store-ws.netlify.app
Innomerce
Conceptws-bussiness-home-page.netlify.app
Experience
2023 — NowVolga Partners
NowSoftware Engineer
Aug 2026 — Present
Joined in August 2026.
Cowlar Design Studio
Cowlar, YC W17
Polyglot Engineer
Aug 2025 — Jun 2026
- Built and scaled the Retail OS behind Al Meera's e-commerce, fulfilment and in-store operations.
- Shipped scale management, payment orchestration and a POS-integrated gift card platform.
- Resolved production issues across payments, caching and API performance at scale.
- Vue.js
- Express.js
- NestJS
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- Azure
- Docker
- GitLab CI/CD
truID
Islamabad
Software Engineer
Jun 2024 — Aug 2025
- Built the iOS identity verification SDK, reaching 89% match accuracy with NADRA.
- Created the Finger Verification SDK, which has verified over 1 million identities.
- Refactored the SDK for maintainability, speeding up development by about 50%.
- Launched Askari's digital onboarding app on the App Store.
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- iOS
Sentinel AI
Islamabad · NSTP NUST
Junior Full Stack Developer
Sep 2023 — Feb 2024
Full Stack Developer Intern
Jun 2023 — Aug 2023
- Built a video surveillance web app: React multi-stream dashboards, Node.js APIs and FastAPI for ML.
- Added real-time WebSocket notifications and hit 97% face-recognition accuracy for attendance with FaceNet.
- As an intern, co-built the company homepage in Next.js with Lottie animations.
- Ran YOLO + OpenCV in C++ on a Jetson Nano for real-time object detection.
- React
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- MongoDB
- WebSockets
- Next.js
- C++
- OpenCV
Education
BS Computational Science
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Sep 2022 — May 2026
Certifications
- 01Neural Networks and Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI
- 02React Native, v3
- 03Intermediate React Native, v2
- 04My Dev Setup Is Better Than Yours
- 05Vim Fundamentals
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