Muhammad Sikandar

Senior Backend Engineer — Node.js — NestJS — Fintech

📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE
📞 +971 56 978 9106
✉️ muhammadsikander11@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Senior Backend Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and developing scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems in fintech, enterprise, and healthcare domains. Expert in Node.js, NestJS, microservices, AWS cloud, and CI/CD pipelines. Skilled in building robust APIs, integrating complex payment systems, leading engineering teams, and implementing distributed logging, monitoring, and debugging solutions.

Technical Skills

Backend & Frameworks

Node.js NestJS Express.js Vue.js AngularJS

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis DynamoDB Aurora ElastiCache

Cloud (AWS)

Lambda API Gateway S3 EC2 RDS CloudWatch CloudTrail IAM

Architecture

Microservices Event-Driven REST APIs gRPC

CI/CD & DevOps

Jenkins GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline Docker ECS

Monitoring & Logging

ELK Stack X-Ray Pino Winston CloudWatch Logs

Professional Experience

Senior Backend Engineer
May 2024 – Present
Comera Pay — Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Built bill payment microservices using NestJS, SQS, Redis, and MySQL, handling thousands of daily transactions
  • Integrated TAMM & Comera Pay wallets for secure digital payments
  • Designed merchant remittance services using Thunes for cross-border payouts
  • Implemented AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and S3 for event-driven processing and secure file storage
  • Monitored distributed systems using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Kibana dashboards
  • Implemented JWT/OAuth2 authentication flows for secure API access
Lead Backend Engineer (Node.js)
Feb 2024 – May 2024
MyWhoosh — UAE
  • Led backend development for real-time ranking and leaderboard systems
  • Built dynamic ranking engine calculating rider positions based on performance metrics
  • Automated rewards system tied to leaderboard events
  • Scaled services to handle high-concurrency live competitions
  • Optimized backend pipelines with AWS Lambda and Redis caching
Software Engineer II
May 2022 – Feb 2024
MyWhoosh — UAE
  • Developed REST APIs with 99.9% uptime
  • Migrated legacy Node.js modules to TypeScript
  • Led integration testing and performance optimization
  • Applied CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline
Senior Backend Engineer
Sep 2020 – May 2022
Innovative Solutions — Karachi, Pakistan
  • Developed secure financial APIs processing thousands of daily transactions
  • Delivered multi-tenant SaaS backends
  • Improved latency with Redis caching and optimized queries
  • Implemented centralized logging with ELK Stack and CloudWatch
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2019 – Sep 2020
Technology Ally — Karachi, Pakistan
  • Enhanced healthcare systems for U.S. government-backed insurance programs
  • Developed ExemplrCRM for lead management, agent scheduling, and pharmacy lookup
  • Integrated eligibility and coverage checks to streamline operations
  • Ensured HIPAA-compliant secure data handling
Earlier Roles
2014 – 2019
  • Mark360 — Senior PHP Developer (2017–2019)
  • Incircle Technology — PHP Developer (2015–2017)
  • Fasnatics Solutions — Web Developer (2014–2015)
  • E2B Solutions — Junior Web Developer (2014)

Certifications

AWS DevOps CI/CD
CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk
NestJS Zero to Hero
Modern TypeScript Backend Development
Dark Web Foundation
A Guide to the Deep/Dark Web (2019)

Languages

English — Professional Working Proficiency
Urdu — Native
Memon — Native