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About

I like owning the whole thing.

I'm Asad, a full stack engineer in Islamabad. I studied computer science at FAST NUCES and graduated in June 2026, after working on backends the whole way through.

Two internships gave me what side projects can't: government fleet telemetry at Frontier Works, and production telecom data at Ufone. Then I built ParchiVisa on my own, from user conversations to a live product in six weeks.

On ParchiVisa that means the schema, the API, the frontend, the deploy, and being the person who gets called when it's down. I'd rather understand one system completely than touch six of them lightly.

Asad Amad Sheikh
Background

Experience

Founder and Full Stack Engineer

ParchiVisa

2026 to now
★ Selected for League of Launchers S2, National Incubation Centre Islamabad
  • Sole engineer on a live visa-assessment product: FastAPI service, Postgres schema, Next.js frontend and the infrastructure it runs on.
  • Validated the problem through user conversations and a scoring prototype, then shipped to production in six weeks.
  • Four country-specific eligibility engines, with an LLM writing the report and fixed rules deciding the verdict.
Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisAWS LightsailCloudflare

Backend Engineering Intern

Frontier Works Organization

Jun to Aug 2025
★ Certificate of Appreciation: sole recipient among a cohort of 45 interns
  • Built the data exchange layer between PostgreSQL and the Flotilla fleet platform, moving real-time telemetry across government fleet systems covering over 300 vehicles.
  • Replaced manual batch reporting with automated aggregation pipelines, cutting reporting latency from 30 minutes to under 1 minute.
  • Traced production timeout failures under peak concurrent load to unbounded queries and connection pool exhaustion. Rewrote the queries, reconfigured pooling, and the timeouts stopped at the same peak load.
PythonPostgreSQLREST APIsIoT telemetryFlotilla

Data Engineering Intern

Ufone (PTCL Group)

Jun to Aug 2024
  • Optimised relational schemas across production telecom infrastructure handling high-volume SME datasets, covering 80 tables.
  • Found and fixed schema inefficiencies causing silent data loss in multi-departmental compliance pipelines, across a compliance dataset of roughly 670 GB.
SQLRelational schema designProduction telecom data

B.S. Computer Science, FAST NUCES, Islamabad. Graduated June 2026.

Education and recognition

  • B.S. Computer Science, FAST NUCES, Islamabad. 2022 to 2026 (graduated June 2026).
  • Selected for League of Launchers S2, National Incubation Centre Islamabad (ParchiVisa).
  • Certificate of Appreciation, Frontier Works Organization (Aug 2025): sole recipient among a cohort of 45 interns.
  • FastAPI and Backend Development, Packt Publishing.
Tooling

Stack

Things I've used in production or shipped with, not a list of everything I've read about.

Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonC#SQLSolidityJava
Frontend
ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSPDF rendering with headless Playwright
Backend
FastAPIASP.NET CoreEF CoreNode.jsExpressPrismaSQLAlchemyPydantic v2REST and OpenAPI designBackground workers
AI / ML
Claude APIGemini APIRetrieval over structured corporaStructured outputEvaluation setsscikit-learn
Payments
StripeShopify webhooksShopify GraphQL Admin APIIdempotency keysWebhook signature checksTransactional inbox
Data
PostgreSQLRedisAlembicSchema designQuery optimisation
Infrastructure
DockerGitHub ActionsNginxDigitalOceanAWS EC2/RDS/S3Cloudflare (R2, DNS)RenderLinux
Security
ClerkJWTRBACRate limitingRuntime secret injectionAudit logging
Testing
xUnitTestcontainerspytesthttpxschemathesisLocustruff and mypy in CIPlaywright
Contact

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Asad Amad Sheikh

Asad Amad Sheikh

Full Stack Engineer · Islamabad, Pakistan

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