Waleed Ajaz

Full-Stack & AI Engineer

I build software people open every day.

I take client projects from the first discovery call to production. Right now that means a coaching platform running with 10 active clients, and a RAG assistant that answers from a company's own documents.

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Open to remote & contract work · Islamabad, Pakistan

Work

Full-Stack / SaaS

Moementum

A fitness coaching platform trainers and clients actually use daily — live in production with 10 active clients.

Next.js 16 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · shadcn/ui · Supabase · PostgreSQL · Recharts · Mux

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AI / RAG / Full-Stack

KnowledgeOS

A multi-tenant RAG platform where admins scope custom AI assistants to specific documents and roles, with every answer traceable back to its source.

Next.js · TypeScript · FastAPI · Python · PostgreSQL · pgvector · SQLAlchemy · OpenAI API · JWT · Docker

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Experience

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  1. Senior Software Engineer · Al Sufun Trading

    May 2026 — Present

    Qatar

    • Joined as a technical partner — own client acquisition, run technical discovery meetings, and scope, build, and ship custom software end to end for each engagement
    • Built and shipped moementum.fit, a full-stack fitness coaching platform for a personal trainer — workout and calorie logging, daily metrics, trainer feedback, progress photos/video, and stats — now running with 10 active clients
    • Leading development of a food-delivery marketplace MVP for a client, currently in active build (confidential)
    • Delivered two smaller client engagements: an inventory management system for Al Faitri, and a full digitalization of a caravan dealership — product catalog, marketing channels, and SEO/AEO

  2. Full Stack Developer · Daixara Technology

    Dec 2025 — Apr 2026

    Lusail, Qatar (Remote)

    • Built a real-time multilingual meeting translation and intelligence platform — Faster-Whisper transcription, XTTS v2 voice cloning, RAG-powered Q&A, and speaker diarization — deployed as Dockerized Go + Python microservices
    • Built a static-analysis CLI tool to audit legacy .NET systems for performance anti-patterns, used it to audit and fix 6 internal tools, and upgraded 3 of them to AI-compatible services rebuilt in Python and Go
    • Rebuilt an ERP workflow-visibility system modeling an 8-step, sometimes-deescalating approval chain — giving requesters live status, clear ownership at every step, and non-disruptive notifications when something needed their input

  3. Software Developer · Qatar Charity

    Mar 2020 — Jun 2025

    Lusail, Qatar

    • Modernized a legacy .NET MVC monolith serving 50K+ users into modular components and RESTful APIs, cutting average page load time by 35% and enabling independent feature deployments
    • Architected GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for .NET Core services on Azure App Services, moving release cycles from bi-weekly to on-demand with zero-downtime deployments
    • Optimized database queries across critical modules with Entity Framework and LINQ, improving execution time by 40% and reducing server load during peak donation campaigns

  4. Software Developer · Mirwad Fragrances

    Sep 2019 — Dec 2019

    Lusail, Qatar

    • Customized and deployed an Odoo ERP system with Python modules for logistics and operations, plus Azure serverless functions for real-time order tracking, cutting manual reporting effort by ~50%
    • Built a Scrapy-based web scraping pipeline that extracted and normalized 10,000+ competitor product records, improving recommendation-engine matching accuracy by ~20%

  5. Junior Software Developer · Smart Village

    Sep 2018 — May 2019

    Doha, Qatar

    • Delivered 4 cross-platform desktop and mobile applications in C#/.NET, Java, and Python, automating manual client workflows across 3 engagements with React front ends and secure REST API integrations

About

I started as a backend engineer. A few years in, I got pulled into a project that needed real ML models, not just APIs, and that was the turn. When the current wave of AI models started landing, I went all in — Claude, OpenAI, Kimi, self-hosted Ollama, building RAG systems from scratch. What kept me hooked wasn't the hype, it was how fast you could go from idea to a working MVP.

I don't like building on WordPress or templates — they cap what you can actually do, and I'd rather ship something custom that's optimized around the real problem instead of around a theme. Framer is the one exception that's changed my mind; it made me pay a lot more attention to what these tools can actually do.

I ran my own company in Qatar before moving to Pakistan for better access to the kind of startup teams I wanted to learn from. At this point I'm only taking on roles and projects with people who care about the work — good engineering, a real environment, some creative energy. I've already done the bad-management thing.

Outside of work: anime, metal, the gym, and as much hiking and trekking as I can get away with — there's a decent chance I'm somewhere in the mountains while you're reading this.

Frontend
React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, HTML/CSS
Backend
Node.js, Express.js, Python, C# / .NET Core, Go, REST APIs, GraphQL
Data
PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB
Infrastructure
Docker, Azure, GitHub Actions / CI-CD, Message Queues, WebSockets
AI
LLMs, RAG Pipelines, Whisper, XTTS, Speaker Diarization, Hugging Face

Hire me for

AI applications
RAG over your own documents, assistants, transcription and translation — retrieval that actually cites its sources, not a chat widget bolted on.
Full-stack products
SaaS apps, client portals, internal dashboards, MVPs — data model through deployed UI, built so a team can pick it up after me.
Backend and integrations
APIs, auth, database design, and the third-party plumbing that quietly breaks at 2am if nobody thought about it.
Business automation
Replacing the spreadsheet-and-email workflow with something that survives past the one person who understands it.

Contact

Tell me what you're building.

Freelance projects, contract work, or a full-time role — if it's interesting, I want to hear about it. I usually reply within a day.

waleedajaz1996@gmail.com

Client work goes through waleed@alsufun.com.