If your SaaS is scaling, breaking, or you’re trying to add AI without destabilizing your system, I help you design and stabilize production-grade systems that can actually support growth.

I work as a Fractional CTO and Systems Architect for startups and agencies that need senior technical leadership without hiring a full-time executive.

With 18+ years of enterprise and SaaS engineering experience, I specialize in taking systems from “working but fragile” → “scalable, stable, AI-enabled production platforms.”

I’m typically brought in when:

✓ AI features work in demos but fail in production
✓ SaaS architecture is becoming unstable under growth
✓ Teams are adding AI without proper system design
✓ Performance, cost, or reliability are becoming critical issues
✓ A senior technical leader is needed to guide architecture decisions

I design and build AI systems that actually run in production:

✓ Agentic workflows (tool use, planning, execution)
✓ LLM orchestration (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, local models)
✓ RAG pipelines (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Chroma)
✓ Long-term memory & stateful AI systems
✓ Cost & latency optimization for LLM workloads
✓ Private / on-prem AI deployments

✓ Backend: .NET Core, Node.js, Python, NestJS
✓ Frontend: React, Next.js, Angular, TypeScript
✓ Architecture: Microservices, event-driven systems, clean architecture
✓ APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC
✓ Databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL

✓ AWS, Azure, GCP
✓ Docker, Kubernetes, serverless systems
✓ CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
✓ Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
✓ Observability (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch)

✓ 18+ years of production engineering experience (since 2005)
✓ Former Enterprise Application Architect (Stewart Title)
✓ Top Rated Plus on Upwork
✓ Strong track record in SaaS, finance, and enterprise systems
✓ Stack Overflow recognized contributor (Gold/Silver badges)
✓ IBM Certified in full-stack development

✓ Fractional CTO / technical advisory roles
✓ AI system architecture & integration
✓ SaaS scaling & modernization
✓ Production rescue / debugging complex systems
✓ Backend + AI integration projects

• 18+ years of production engineering experience
• Built systems across finance, legal-tech, and enterprise SaaS

I write occasionally about engineering decisions, architecture, and emerging AI systems.

• https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/154144/Using-Unmanaged-VB6-Code-in-NET
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-blazor-way-forward-aqdas-iftekhar/

I am proud to have earned the following IBM certifications:

Data Science Foundations - Level 1

Web Development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Essentials

Front-end Development with React

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