Farhan Munir

Farhan Munir ​ Experienced Engineering Lead with 15+ years in software development, cloud architecture, and DevOps, with expertise in dynamic startup settings. Proficient in developing scalable web applications using FastAPI, Django , (Laravel, React, Python, NextJS, and VueJS. Experienced in database design, backend systems, and AWS cloud platforms. I offer excellent communication, meticulous attention to detail, and a strategic approach to conflict resolution and team collaboration. Seeking to lead engineering initiatives and deliver high-quality, user-centric products. Professional Experience Senior Backend/AI Developer​ ​ Resolve-Analytics United States of America ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Oct-2025 - Present At Resolve Analytics, I worked as a Senior Backend AI Engineer, building backend systems for vehicle detection, tracking, and classification. Key contributions included: ●​ Designed and implemented AWS-backed infrastructure to support an AI video analytics pipeline using YOLOv9 and Qwen 2.5 models for detection and inference workloads.​ ●​ Developed backend APIs using Flask, supporting ingestion, job orchestration, and retrieval of detection results.​ ●​ Implemented WebSocket-based real-time communication to stream inference updates and results to the frontend with low latency.​ ●​ Built a scalable three-component architecture (Frontend, Detection, Inference) coordinated through AWS SQS queues to ensure reliable asynchronous processing.​ ●​ Integrated AWS Cognito authentication for secure user access and session management.​ ●​ Produced end-to-end technical documentation (architecture, setup, deployment, runbooks) to streamline onboarding for developers and clients.​ Senior Backend Developer​ Gettr United States of America ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Jul-2025 - Oct-2025 At Gettr, I established myself as a Senior Backend Developer using FAST API, video media server optimization expert and performance engineer (related to API and Transcoding). My key achievements included: ●​ Updating the media server for transcoding from FFMpeg 4.0 to FFMpeg 7+. Including 15+ different audio and video codec libraries. Upgraded a Docker based solution that uses less resources and results in smaller transcoding duration ●​ Migration of API from a mixture of multiple languages to FAST API. Developed a MOT (Model of Truth) mechanism for the upgrade of data structure for between new and older systems. Until final cut over, this translation layer (MOT) will help in pushing data to newer data structure ●​ Optimization of multi-lingual sub titles, fixing segment duration and total duration using a combination of GPT and Whisper based translation and sub-title generation Senior Backend Developer Prospexs AB (Remote)​ Stockholm, Sweden ​ Jan-2025 - July -2025 At Prospexs AI, I play a key role in shaping the backend architecture and AI-powered features that drive our real-time prospecting platform. My work spans backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, AI integration, and even technical hiring. Here’s an overview of what I do: ●​ Backend Development & API Optimization: I build and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python FastAPI, focusing on making APIs fast, scalable, and reliable. To support real-time data flow, I implement asynchronous programming and WebSocket-based communication, leveraging PubNub as our messaging broker to ensure smooth interactions between backend and frontend. ●​ Data Acquisition & Privacy Compliance​ Ensured data acquisition workflows complied with GDPR-equivalent standards for user data processing and storage. ●​ AI-Powered Synergy Matching: I spearheaded the design and implementation of an advanced synergy matrix using large language models (LLMs) and AI. This system analyzes over 40 factors to calculate a precise matching score between leads and users searching for prospects. The AI-driven scoring helps us intelligently select or reject leads, significantly improving lead quality and relevance. ●​ Data Processing at Scale with AWS Databricks:​ I leveraged AWS Databricks to design and execute high-throughput data pipelines for lead scoring and feature extraction across multi-source datasets. This improved the efficiency of model inference and analytics workflows by over 60%, enhancing the real-time responsiveness of our AI matching engine. ●​ Frontend Collaboration & Optimization: I collaborated with frontend teams using TypeScript and React to deliver real-time ML insight dashboards. I helped reduce rendering times by 20%, improving the experience for over 10,000 active monthly users. ●​ Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: I manage and enhance our AWS infrastructure, driving automation in deployment workflows and continuously refining our CI/CD pipelines. This ensures faster, more reliable releases and keeps our platform robust under load. ●​ Containerization & Docker Efficiency: I lead research into container strategies and optimize Docker images, cutting build times and reducing resource consumption—key improvements that streamline our development and deployment on AWS ECS. ●​ AI Integration & Token Optimization: Leading prompt engineering efforts, I optimize LLM token usage to boost AI feature performance while lowering operational costs. I design end-to-end AI pipelines that enhance scalability and system reliability. ●​ Innovation & Continuous Learning: I stay on the cutting edge by researching new backend technologies, DevOps tools, and AI advancements, applying them to improve our products and engineering processes. ●​ Documentation & Teamwork: I maintain clear technical documentation to support collaboration, smooth onboarding, and ongoing knowledge sharing across teams. Senior Software Engineer​ SiriusMindShare Lab California, USA ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Apr 2023 – Dec 2024 At SiriusMindShare Lab, I was deeply involved in building and scaling Python-based backend systems and cloud infrastructure, while also integrating machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLMs) to unlock new capabilities. My work helped improve both the performance and intelligence of our applications, making them more responsive and insightful for users. Here’s what I focused on: ●​ ML & LLM-Driven Email Parsing: Built an advanced system to analyze and extract valuable insights from thousands of incoming emails. This solution leveraged machine learning methods, including Named Entity Recognition (NER) with transformer models like DistilBERT and prompt-engineered LLMs such as GPT-4, to efficiently summarize and classify email content. By applying NLP techniques, including transformer-based classification and summarization for document processing, it significantly enhanced customer communication and operational efficiency. ●​ Model Lifecycle Management: Maintained and retrained ML models in response to changing data patterns and business objectives ●​ Mentorship & Team Leadership: Guided junior developers by sharing best practices in Python and ML model integration, creating a supportive environment where everyone could grow their skills. ●​ Backend Development: Designed and built RESTful APIs using Flask, with asynchronous features for better scalability. Incorporated ML models in the backend to enhance data processing and provide smarter responses. I used RabbitMQ as the backbone for event-driven communication to keep things running smoothly. ●​ Cloud Infrastructure Setup: Set up and managed AWS resources—like EC2, S3, IAM roles, and EKS clusters—to ensure our applications were scalable and secure, with smooth deployment pipelines. ●​ Automation & Scripting: Created Python and Bash scripts to automate module generation and maintenance tasks, diving into Linux permissions and Python internals to make these tools reliable and efficient. Developed monitoring tools to track model performance, detect drift, and trigger automated retraining pipelines ●​ API Documentation: Streamlined API docs using FastAPI’s built-in OpenAPI (Swagger) support, helping both internal teams and external clients understand and use our services better. ●​ Performance Testing: Ran load and stress tests with tools like JMeter and Locust on Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes (EKS) environments to keep our systems robust and ready for high traffic. ●​ Communications: Collaborated with frontend teams using TypeScript and React to deliver real-time ML insight dashboards​ Sr Software Developer​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Aug 2019 - Apr 2023 AgileSEO ​ Led and contributed to multiple successful projects with a strong focus on automation, internal tooling, and infrastructure optimization: ●​ Designed and implemented an automated SEO task management system integrating Zapier, Trello, and SEMrush, enabling real-time generation of SEO tasks based on live website analysis. ●​ Developed and deployed internal content generation tools using Flask and VueJS, leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for enhanced AI-driven content workflows. ●​ Established and enforced a standardized code review process across engineering teams, improving code quality, maintainability, and team collaboration. ●​ Migrated core infrastructure from AWS to DigitalOcean, achieving significant cost savings and streamlined system administration practices. ●​ Managed day-to-day DevOps and system administration tasks, ensuring system stability, performance, and security. ​​ Chief Operating Officer​​ NexDegree (Pvt) Limited ​ ​ ​ ​ Jul 2015 – Dec 2019 Key responsibilities included - operations management, supporting Chief Strategy Officer & CEO during sales drive, effective HR decisions, and workflow automation. During my tenure, I : 1.​ Played pivotal role in securing major deals with FMCG ($152 billion market in Pakistan) and MENA region based health care provider (tele-medicine). As a direct result company’s revenue jumped 250% over a fiscal year 2.​ Projected brand image by taking active participation in University events, organizing charity drives for Corporate Social Responsibility causes and Social Media activism. This helped in attracting better talent and brand consciousness 3.​ Built and led a high-performing backend engineering team of 8 developers, implementing agile practices and code review standards that reduced bug rates by 15% and improved delivery timelines by 25%. PMO Manager​ ​ ​ NexDegree (Pvt) Limited ​ ​ ​ ​ Sep 2013 – Jul 2015 As a PMO manager, I was responsible for managing a team of 10 Project Managers with additional responsibilities of looking after key projects. My major accomplishments included: 1.​ Standardization of PMO documentations and procedures within the company. Company wide implementation of Atlassian product suite for Project Management, DevOps, and documentation 2.​ Successful completion of Big Data project for the urban utility with 2.2 million subscribers. Project involved development of a tool for detecting power theft with over 70% accuracy. 3.​ Implemented automated testing pipelines using pytest and Jest for backend and frontend services, achieving 85% test coverage and reducing regression defects by 30%. Lead Project Manager ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ August 2009 – September 2013 NexDegree (Pvt) Limited As Lead Project Manager, I was responsible for flagship projects. My tenure is marked by following achievements: 1.​ Management of multiple projects for our MVP customer MaestroConference. These successful projects played a major role in creating a long term relationship. MaestroConference had the honor of being a teleconferencing tool for the Obama Campaign. Developed DR on AWS that contains EC2 / RDS / AWS Elastic Transcoder / S3 storage for recordings and Redshift for analysis/reports 2.​ Successful launch of Pakistan’s first major E-Commerce website (TCSConnect.com/Yayvo.com) with architecture to support over thousands of concurrent users. Rest of Positions Company Position Tenure NexDegree Private Limited Software Architect July-2008 till August-2009 Self Employed Freelancer / Self Employed June-2006 till June-2008 NexOps Private Limited Software Architect Dec-2005 till May-2006 Education Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) ​ ​ ​ NED University of Engineering and Technology​ Distinctions Country Winner of 2015 UNIDO / GEF CleanTech Open Challenge Certifications 1.​ 2.​ 3.​ 4.​ Udemy - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associated 2018 [View Certificate] Udemy - Learn DevOps: Infrastructure Automation With Terraform [View Certificate] Udemy - An Entire MBA in 1 Course [View Certificate] Udemy - OpenAI Python API Bootcamp: Learn to use AI, GPT, and more! [View Certificate]