Welcome 👋
I'm Islam Uddin — a Software Architect, Full-Stack Engineer & Systems Integrator based in Karachi, Pakistan, with 15+ years designing and shipping production systems across Government, Law Enforcement, Banking, Healthcare, E-Commerce, and Maritime sectors. I currently run 4 concurrent senior roles spanning Australia, USA, and Pakistan.
🏗️ Software Architect with 15+ years across the full stack — from cloud infrastructure and secure integrations to biometric hardware and AI-powered tooling.
🇦🇺 Software Development Lead @ Auton8, Australia — leading API gateway architecture (NestJS/Fastify, AES-256-GCM + RSA-OAEP, PostgreSQL, Valkey, Loki/Grafana). Defined the k6 performance methodology hitting ~97% pass rates on banking APIs.
🏛️ Senior Software Engineer @ Sindh CM Secretariat — driving stabilization, optimization, and modernization across provincial systems.
👮 Senior Software Engineer @ Sindh Police IT Directorate (6+ years) — architect of flagship law-enforcement platforms: DAROGHA, DLS Online, PSRMS, ARMS, Talaash, iConnect, HRMIS. Biometric pipelines (fingerprint + facial recognition) with fuzzy search using SOUNDEX & Levenshtein in MSSQL.
🇺🇸 Remote DevOps Engineer @ Plumtree Group, Chicago (10+ years) — long-running engagement managing US e-commerce deployments, Kubernetes, DNS/SSL lifecycles.
🏆 PIAIC IoT — Rank 1 of 279 (Batch 2, final-quarter percentile 100) · Embedded Systems · Rust · Linux · Docker · Kubernetes · Async Microservices · Conversational AI.
🎓 MS Computer Science · Muhammad Ali Jinnah University · BS Software Engineering
🌍 Languages: English · Urdu · Sindhi
| Project | Domain | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| DAROGHA | Government | Unified Police–Public Services platform — single account across all citizen channels |
| DLS Online | Government | Online issuance & renewal of Learner's Driving License + International Driving Permit |
| Civic Super Service Gateway | Architecture | NestJS/Fastify · AES-256-GCM + RSA-OAEP · PostgreSQL · Valkey · Loki/Grafana |
| iConnect ↔ Police 15 | Real-time | Mobile-to-call-center emergency response — CTI, WebSocket location, SOS API |
| A8 Performance Test Suite | Banking · QA | k6-based load/stress/baseline framework — InvestBank Digibanc APIs (~97% pass) |
| FindFace / CRO Pipeline | Biometric · CV | Facial recognition + fingerprint matching with fuzzy search (SOUNDEX, Levenshtein) |
| Demerit Points System | Government | TRACS ↔ DLS integration for traffic violations & license-status workflows |
"Architecting secure, scalable systems — from biometric hardware to encrypted banking APIs to AI-powered tooling." 🚀