Class of 2026
About Me
Backend engineer and Dartmouth senior building production auth, async pipelines, and multi-tenant systems that hold up under real-world load.
Student
Passionate learner and academic achiever
Developer
Creator of meaningful digital solutions
Innovator
Always exploring new technologies
"I believe in the power of technology to solve real-world problems and create meaningful connections. My goal is to build digital experiences that enhance people's lives and make a positive impact."
Background & Education
I'm a Backend Engineer focused on async Python, multi-tenant PostgreSQL, and OAuth/OIDC identity. I build the production auth layers, ingest pipelines, and third-party integrations that hold up under real-world race conditions and tenant isolation requirements.
At Dartmouth College I'm finishing a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering. I earned a Faculty Citation for top 1% performance in CS 52 (Full-Stack) and CS 76 (AI), won IvyHacks 2025 (1st of 50), and serve as Lead TA for CS 52 Full-Stack and TA for CS 59 Programming Languages — mentoring 100+ students.
Recent work includes owning a Firebase-to-OIDC/JWKS auth migration with unified SSO across Cognito and Dartmouth CAS at Evergreen, hardening Calendly OAuth with PKCE and an idempotent authorization-code cache at Link VT, and shipping the Docker-packaged Cypress autograder used by 800+ learners on a Dartmouth–Coursera MOOC.
My toolkit centers on Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL with Row-Level Security, Celery and arq + Redis, Docker, and OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT/JWKS, and PKCE. I'm authorized to work in the U.S. for 3 years under STEM OPT (no sponsorship required).
Education
Dartmouth College
B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering
Relevant Coursework
Computer Science (COSC)
Mathematics (MATH)
Additional Courses
Experience & Journey
A timeline of my academic and professional milestones at Dartmouth and beyond.
Software Engineer, Auth & Identity — Evergreen, Hanover, NH
Jan 2026 – Present
Owned migration off Firebase Auth to an OIDC/JWKS authentication layer, unifying SSO across Cognito (dev/staging) and Dartmouth CAS (prod) behind a single middleware with verified issuer and audience claims. Designed multi-account Google Calendar integration with per-account OAuth tokens, tenant-safe refresh-failure semantics, and cross-account event deduplication under parallel fan-out fetch. Hardened the internal service-to-service REST API with timing-safe key comparison, zero-downtime key rotation, and per-route caller authorization.
Software Engineer, Integrations & Ingestion — Link VT, Burlington, VT
Oct 2025 – Dec 2025
Hardened Calendly OAuth against duplicate-code race conditions end-to-end with PKCE and an idempotent server-side authorization-code cache. Built role-gated S3 file ingestion for the resource library serving 120 coaches managing 800 patients with MIME allowlisting, size caps, sanitized object keys, and cascading cleanup. Built a periodic content-monitoring scraper coordinated by a MongoDB-backed distributed lock with content-hash diffing, depth-limited crawls, and a sticky review state machine.
Software Engineer, Developer Tools — Coursera × Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
Aug 2025 – Oct 2025
Owned the autograder for a Dartmouth–Coursera MOOC: Docker-packaged Cypress grader with AES-256 encrypted submissions and configurable spec filtering, plus React/Express/MongoDB lab templates and a 16-test suite used by 800+ enrolled learners.
Software Engineering Intern (Returning) — Muff Manufacturing, Manchester, UK
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
Built Drape's async image-gen pipeline: FastAPI uploads, Celery workers, S3 confirmation gate fixing a done-before-upload race; 65s avg, 60% approval (mannequin 72%, model 48%) on 18-SKU pilot. Designed the reviewer UI with side-by-side comparison and per-variant approve/reject persisted to Postgres; replaced manual SSH+rsync deploys with a GitHub Actions Docker workflow.
Backend Developer Co-op — Rauner Digital Archive, Hanover, NH
Aug 2024 – Mar 2025
Built three Python archival scrapers for Rauner — Dartmouth News (date-range, 50-word PDF gate, image-captions), Instagram (Instaloader collages), YouTube (Data API v3) — each with retry, rate-limit, and dedup.
Software Engineering Intern — Muff Manufacturing, Manchester, UK
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
Built FloorView, a factory-ops dashboard (FastAPI, React, Postgres) with an append-only stage-transition audit log; used daily by 8 staff, replacing spreadsheet and whiteboard tracking on launch.
Dartmouth College — B.S. CS & Engineering
2022 – 2026
Awards: Faculty Citation (Top 1% in CS 52 Full-Stack & CS 76 AI); Winner, IvyHacks 2025 (1st of 50). Teaching: Lead TA, CS 52 Full-Stack; TA, CS 59 Programming Languages; mentored 100+ students.
Skills & Expertise
A concise overview of my technical skills and the tools I use daily.
Identity & Auth Specialist
Production-grade OAuth/OIDC, JWT/JWKS, PKCE, and multi-tenant SSO across Cognito and Dartmouth CAS.
Async-First Backend
FastAPI, Celery, and arq + Redis pipelines with deterministic keys and lease-based ownership.
Detail Oriented
Tamper-evident audit logs, timing-safe comparisons, and zero-downtime key rotation by default.
Leadership
- President, Dartmouth Alpha Lambda Mu
- President, Roots IVY Alum CS Society
- Founder, Young in Tech Pakistan
Interested in Working Together?
I'm always open to discussing new projects, creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your vision.
Get In Touch