Safdar Azeem

Senior Software Engineer | Creator of Builto.com
About Me

Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building products across web, mobile, and desktop. Focused on turning complex ideas into simple, thoughtful software, from full product experiences and developer tools to open-source projects and AI-powered applications. Work spans the entire product journey, from early ideas and architecture to the details that make software reliable, intuitive, and useful. More recently focused on privacy-first AI, local and cloud intelligence, voice-driven workflows, and new ways AI can make everyday software more useful without taking control away from the user.

Skills

Javascript

TypeScript

Rust

React

React-Native

Next.js

Vue

Nuxt

Electron

Tauri

Svelte

UX/UI

Node

Express.js

GraphQL

Apollo

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

DevOps

VPS

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Playwright

Puppeteer

System Design

Redis

Firebase

Cloudinary

local LLM models

AI Integration.

Experience
Senior Software Engineer
app.outnax.com - Contract|2024 - present

  • Led the architecture and end-to-end development of a production multi-tenant ERP spanning 14+ business domains and serving 1,000+ active users, built with Vue 3, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
  • Designed core platform architecture for multi-tenancy, tenant and branch isolation, RBAC, OAuth 2.0, 2FA/MFA, approval workflows, background processing, caching, indexing, query optimization, pagination, and database sharding.
  • Built an internal S3-backed storage service for file uploads, usage tracking, and public, private, and link-based sharing, plus centralized PDF generation for multilingual documents.
  • Built financial infrastructure for Stripe, Moyasar, recurring billing, invoicing, and Saudi ZATCA-compliant e-invoicing, covering regulated payment and financial workflows.
  • Owned production infrastructure and delivery across VPS environments, Docker, NGINX, Coolify, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, application security, reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Developed React Native applications for iOS and Android, extending core ERP workflows to mobile while contributing across frontend, backend, and production delivery.

Independent Product Engineer | Builto
Builto|2024 - present

  • Build a cross-platform productivity ecosystem spanning website and resume builders, task management, notes, whiteboarding, presentations, document tooling, voice dictation, and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Architected local Large Language Model (LLM) and cloud AI integration in a Tauri desktop application, enabling private, offline summarization, rewriting, tone transformation, content generation, and local/cloud inference.
  • Built system-wide speech-to-text, voice dictation, voice commands, and voice automation using Tauri, Vue, TypeScript, and Rust, integrating native OS capabilities with a modern web application architecture.
  • Built reusable engineering libraries and developer tooling across UI infrastructure, authentication, GraphQL integration, database scaling, and regulated e-invoicing.

Software Engineer
Mailmunch|2023 - 2024

  • Built and extended a production drag-and-drop email and landing-page builder using React and Next.js for no-code marketing campaign creation.
  • Delivered product capabilities across real-time analytics, campaign automation and triggers, image editing, and multilingual workflows.
  • Improved product consistency through reusable UI patterns and design-system-oriented frontend development.
  • Debugged and resolved production issues while delivering high-priority functionality across an established SaaS platform.

Mern Stack Developer
DatumSquare |2022 - 2023

  • Built production systems across healthcare and hospitality, including medical records, appointments, billing, analytics, hotel reservations, and live operational tracking.
  • Designed and implemented GraphQL and RESTful APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and MongoDB, including third-party integrations and cloud services.
  • Used Next.js SSR to improve SEO and server-rendered delivery for public-facing applications.
  • Developed and deployed containerized applications using Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel, Contabo, and AWS S3.

Frontend Developer
Encoder Squad|2021 - 2022

  • Delivered complex web apps using React.js, Vue, Express, GraphQL, and MongoDB.
  • Implemented robust backend systems with Express and GraphQL for efficient data handling.
  • Maintained focus on quality, testing, stability, reliability, and security.