timeline.md · 2022 → present
Umer Naeem.
Software engineer building AI products,
cloud infra & the tooling around them.
A scrollable timeline of the work — latest first. Roles, products, hackathons and freelance, with the stack, impact and the trade-offs behind each one.
01 · timeline
Latest to oldest,
the whole arc.
Carbonteq
Senior Software Engineer
Lahore
Leading architecture on data-automation products and an internal effort to make agentic coding a first-class way we ship.
- ✓Architected BATflo v2 via DDD & hexagonal architecture — a self-service data import pipeline (agent swarm) that removed dev-reliant ETL bottlenecks, cutting turnaround from days to minutes for non-technical users.
- ✓Built a VRP-based scheduling engine on Google Route Optimization API that automates complex field-technician routing and constraint management.
- ✓Lead the Harness engineering initiative: helped the team build customized agent harnesses on Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, wired into Linear & GitHub with background agents and skill files.
BATflo v2
Certified Backflow Testing
A self-service data import platform and VRP scheduling engine for field-technician operations.
- ✓Agent swarm technique eliminated dev-reliant ETL — non-technical users import their own data.
- ✓VRP scheduling engine on Google Route Optimization API automates routing & constraint management.
Software Engineer
Lahore
Backend, data pipelines and cloud infra on Azure for AI products serving high-net-worth and healthcare clients.
- ✓PRV8 — an AI-powered travel concierge for HNIs: multi-agent architecture in LangGraph with agents that search flights and rooms against user preferences.
- ✓FCH by Viral Solutions — automated data-entry workflows for First Class Healthcare using Gemini Flash 3.0 structured outputs.
PRV8
AI Travel Concierge for HNIs
AI agents that search flights and rooms against user preferences for high-net-worth travellers.
- ✓Backend, data pipelines and cloud infrastructure on Azure.
- ✓Multi-agent architecture orchestrated with LangGraph.
First Class Healthcare
Viral Solutions
Automated data-entry workflows for a healthcare client using Gemini Flash 3.0 structured outputs.
- ✓Reduced manual data entry overhead with structured-output extraction.
Gaper.io
Jetrr was a Gaper.io × Game District joint venture; I was employed at Gaper.io the whole time.
Associate Software Engineer
Hybrid
Two years owning the lifecycle of AI consumer apps under Jetrr (Gaper × Game District JV) — from mobile to backend to cloud infra, plus running an intern program.
- ✓Envision AI — AI photo generator competing with Vyro's Imagine Art; shipped 60K+ downloads. Owned the backend: moved stable-diffusion fine-tuning off GCP Vertex AI onto GKE, cutting cold-start from ~10 min to ~1 min, and later to 1–2 min with PEFT/LoRA on RunPod.
- ✓TutorCat AI — generative AI homework-help chatbot, 40K+ downloads. Built LLM tools that pulled relevant YouTube videos into step-by-step answers. CI/CD via Cloud Build + Cloud Deploy, infra automated with Pulumi + Kubernetes.
- ✓Led a 2024 summer internship program for 10 undergrads — designed technical projects and trained interns in GCP, containerization and MLOps.
Envision AI
Jetrr
An AI photo generator competing with Vyro's Imagine Art — users upload images, a GPU loads a SD container, fine-tunes with DreamBooth, and returns personalised art.
- ✓Stable diffusion on Vertex AI took ~30 min for a first run. A Google architect pointed us to Kubernetes.
- ✓I jumped in with no prior K8s experience and within 7–14 days moved workloads from Vertex AI Jobs to K8s Jobs — 30 min → 5 min, making the product viable.
- ✓Later moved to PEFT/LoRA on RunPod → 1–2 min generation, matching competitor speeds.
TutorCat AI
Jetrr
A generative AI homework-help chatbot that walks students through subjects step by step.
- ✓Built LLM tools so the model could pull in relevant YouTube videos as suggestions.
- ✓Owned the full lifecycle: mobile, backend, cloud infra, CI/CD (Cloud Build + Cloud Deploy), IaC (Pulumi + Kubernetes).
Software Engineer Intern
Hybrid
A two-month internship that turned into a two-year role. Prototyped with the freshly-released GPT-4 API at high velocity.
- ✓Recruiter AI — an AI matchmaking platform for recruiters and engineers, built to outperform conventional ATS systems.
- ✓Built a Langchain-based RAG system on GPT-4 for matching precision; structured JSON was the hard part.
- ✓Stood up infra on AWS: EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, API Gateway, Route 53, S3, ElasticSearch.
Recruiter AI
Gaper.io
AI-powered matchmaking platform for recruiters and engineers — better than a conventional ATS.
- ✓Langchain + RAG on GPT-4 for matching precision; structured JSON was the painful part.
- ✓AWS infra: EC2, RDS PostgreSQL, API Gateway, Route 53, S3, ElasticSearch.
Generative NFTs
Hackathon — won, led to my internship
An app that took a text prompt, generated an image via OpenAI DALL·E 2, and minted it as an NFT on-chain.
- ✓Built with the then-new DALL·E 2 API + on-chain minting.
- ✓Winning this hackathon is what opened the door to my first professional role at Gaper.
Preperoni
First paid project
A digital SAT prep platform. A friend had the practice material; I built the product end to end.
- ✓Self-hosted Appwrite as BaaS on a DigitalOcean droplet (I wanted the room to experiment, not just use managed Firebase).
- ✓Configured SSL, domains and auth, then shipped a Next.js frontend on Vercel.
Enrollment Planner
Hobby project as a student
Made course planning easier at university — experiment with permutations, find conflict-free schedules, visualise them.
- ✓Full-stack Next.js app with a course-PDF data parser.
- ✓React drag-and-drop + calendar view to compare schedules.
Lahore University of Management Sciences
BS in Computer Science
GPA 3.5 / 4.0 · Dean's Honor List
- ✓Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Databases, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems.
Carbonteq
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02 · about
Istartedinfull-stackasastudent,fellintogenerativeAIwhenGPT-4landed,andspenttwoyearsshippingconsumerappstoahundredthousanddownloads.Thethroughline:Iliketheunglamorousinfrastructurethatmakesaproductactuallywork—Kubernetesjobs,coldstarts,agentpipelines,theharnessateamusestoship.
Umer Naeem
Software Engineer · Lahore, Pakistan
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03 · offcuts
Smaller things,
still shipped.
freelance & side work. hover to pause.
04 · contact
Let's build something.
Let's build something.
open to interesting work in AI infra, developer tooling & product engineering.